1968 – The Year of Living Vicariously: The London Whirlwind. (1st December 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dikerdem, Mehmet Ali
• Is Part Of: Journal of global faultlines. Volume 5:Number 1/2(2018)
• Page Start: 26
• Page End: 40
• Publication Date: 2018-12-01
• Subjects: autoethnography -- reflective memoirs of May 1968 in Britain -- Ghana -- Turkey and the United States -- political commentary; World politics -- Periodicals; Geopolitics -- Periodicals; Globalization -- Periodicals; 327.101
• DOI: 10.13169/jglobfaul.5.1-2.0026
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2054-2089

Abstract

Abstract : 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.