1968 – The Year of Living Vicariously: The London Whirlwind
This is an essay in critical auto-ethnography in the form of a personal memoire of the experiences in the tumultous year 1968 of a 19-year old from a privileged but political background. Spread across London, Accra, Istanbul, Manchester and New York throughout 1968, the text is a dialogue between se...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Pluto Journals
2018-11-01
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| Series: | Journal of Global Faultlines |
| Online Access: | https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/jglobfaul.5.1-2.0026 |
| Summary: | This is an essay in critical auto-ethnography in the form of a personal memoire of the experiences in the tumultous year 1968 of a 19-year old from a privileged but political background. Spread across London, Accra, Istanbul, Manchester and New York throughout 1968, the text is a dialogue between selected lived experiences of the time juxtaposed with retrospective political commentary trying to explain contexts, continuities and ruptures. The final section can be read as a reflection on what it means to be of the “'68 generation” half a century on. |
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| ISSN: | 2397-7825 2054-2089 |