Curiosities at war: the police and prison resistance after Mai ’68.
It is too easy to say of Mai ’68 that the police are incurious while protesters are curious, that administrators are incurious and students are curious. A more honest assessment of these moments, striated as they are with social tensions, would identify at least two modes of enquiry and two sets of...
| Publicado en: | Modern & Contemporary France Vol. 26; no. 2; pp. 179 - 192 |
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May2018
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