Post on 03-Jan-2016
The 1960snew ways to Change
Politics of the people: homes, jobs, freedomnew technologiesglobal connecteda globally critical gazecultural politics
In the African continent:1960s – ‘the decade of Africa’• the Winds of Change• est. the Organization of African Unity (OAU) 1962
Marcus Garvey• apartheid in South Africa: white ‘settler’ interests
local resistance (ANC)Sharpeville – 69 protestors killed
SA expelled from Commonwealth
• violence of Angola and Mozambique
• Pan-Africanism, and rastafari identity
Northern Ireland
• early-modern colonizationpolitical and cultural rights of Catholics
formally part of Great Britain
• 19/20C ethnic nationalism
political fights; and violent agitation for freedomCivil War 1922-23 results in Irish Free State, and Northern Ireland
• The Troubles ‘gerrymandering’
Northern Ireland Civil Rights AssociationBogside Massacre – ‘Bloody Sunday’ 30 Jan
1972escalation of guerilla warfare – IRAthe Maze; IRA hunger strikersGood Friday Agreement
Paris, 1968May-June 1968
• the first, largest wildcat general strike ever
• 11 million involved (22% of country) 2/3• brought the economy to a standstill • deGaulle left country• ready to declare Martial Law – averted
• student occupation protests began• disillusionment with change post-WWII• ended with Union deals
• also decolonization – Algerian Independence 1962 – pieds noir
North America• Civil Rights Movement
Jim Crow lawsAmerican Indian Movement
• Education and jobs
• Anti-Vietnam ProtestsKent State – 4 May 1970
29 April 1975
Public action; safer sex:the personal is always political
Josephine Butler(1828-1906)
and later, International Abolitionist Federation
Marie Stopes (1880-1958)• b. Edinburgh• educated UCL and PhD Germany –
paleobotany• Married Love (1921)• birth control clinics, upper Holloway north
London• her own birth announcement
refused in the Times• libel trial• eugenicist, yet• estranged from only son• d. cancer, 1958
Social Change“the Pill” approved by the FDA in the early 1960s• generated an enormous (but surprising) social impact• gave ♀unprecedented control over their fertility• easy, spontaneous, no harm to sensation, and private
• key player in forming women’s modern economic role• sharp increase in college attendance and graduation
rates for ♀• debate about the moral and health consequences• 1968 papal encyclical Humanae Vitae
(aka sex is bad)
• but, health risks, increased employment and not equality• and tested, unsafely, on non-western populations
Marie Stopes International:idea of sexual safety has, continues to change
This is an extremely fraught topic.
In your view, what is the most pressing issue regarding sexual safety? 1. on campus? 2. in the Maritimes? 3. in north America?
Economic Globalization• macro level: homes and hearts
international organizations (IMF, GATT,
WTO) consumerism and global
connectedness
• micro level: increasing disparitiescommunication means increasing connectedness