This special issue – with case studies from France, Germany, Great Britain and Italy – explores different trajectories and narratives of 1968. Through the application of oral history methodology, it creates a more inclusive and complex history which moves beyond established memories of 1968, and thus contributes to the existing literature on the 1968 protests, which will celebrate their 45th anniversary in 2013. It gathers papers presented at an interdisciplinary seminar on oral history and 1968, held at the University of Warwick (UK) in February 2011 (<http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/alumni/services/eportfolios/itrgac/seminar230211/>).
Table of Contents
Andrea Hajek: Challenging dominant discourses of the past: 1968 and the value of oral history (editorial)
Bruno Bonomo: Presa della parola: A review and discussion of oral history and the Italian 1968
Joseph Maslen: Autobiographies of a generation? Carolyn Steedman, Luisa Passerini and the memory of 1968
Robert Gildea: Utopia and conflict in the oral testimonies of French 1968 activists
Anna von der Goltz: Making sense of East Germany’s 1968: Multiple trajectories and contrasting memories
Celia Hughes: Negotiating ungovernable spaces between the personal and the political: Oral history and the left in post-war Britain
Sofia Serenelli: Private 1968 and the margins: The Vicolo Cassini’s community in Macerata, Italy
Simone Varriale: Conference report
Book reviews
Martin Klimke, Jacco Pekelder, & Joachim Scharloth, (Eds.): Between Prague Spring and French May. Opposition and Revolt in Europe, 1960-1980. Reviewed by Benoît Challand
Ingo Cornils and Sarah Waters (Eds.): Memories of 1968: International Perspectives. Reviewed by Rebecca Clifford
Anna von der Goltz (Ed): ‘Talkin’ ‘bout my generation’ – Conflicts of generation building and Europe’s ‘1968’. Reviewed by Benjamin Nienass
Alessandro Portelli: They Say in Harlan County: An Oral History. Reviewed by Linda Shopes
Peter Jan Magry and Cristina Sánchez-Carretero (eds.): Grassroots Memorials. The Politics of Memorializing Traumatic Death. Reviewed by Andrea Hajek