Children of the Dictatorship
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A01=Kostis Kornetis
Author_Kostis Kornetis
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Cultural Studies (General)
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History: 20th Century to Present
Sociology
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- ISBN 9781785330339
- Weight: 526g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 2015
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Putting Greece back on the cultural and political map of the "Long 1960s," this book traces the dissent and activism of anti-regime students during the dictatorship of the Colonels (1967-74). It explores the cultural as well as ideological protest of Greek student activists, illustrating how these "children of the dictatorship" managed to re-appropriate indigenous folk tradition for their "progressive" purposes and how their transnational exchange molded a particular local protest culture. It examines how the students' social and political practices became a major source of pressure on the Colonels' regime, finding its apogee in the three day Polytechnic uprising of November 1973 which laid the foundations for a total reshaping of Greek political culture in the following decades.
Kostis Kornetis is Assistant Professor at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at New York University. He received his PhD in History and Civilization from the European University Institute, Florence. From 2007 to 2012 he taught in the History Department at Brown University. His research focuses on the history and memory of the 1960s, the methodology of oral history, and the use of film as a source for social and cultural history.
