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  • Chapter 7 - ‘We Began to Talk’

  • from Part II - The Politics of Revolt
  • Ben Mercer, Australian National University, Canberra
  • Book:
    Student Revolt in 1968
    Published online:
    18 November 2019
    Print publication:
    28 November 2019, pp 155-174

  • Summary

    Chapter 7 examines the prominence of speech in the student revolts of the 1960s. The experience of speaking was extremely important to the students, a marker of a subjective transformation. However, speech was not always emancipatory. Practices of speech followed three modes: desacralisation, the demand for debate and provocation. Protest speech was characterised by vulgarity, jargon, informalisation and opacity. The deployment of speech occurred in unequal and gendered forms. Student assemblies were simultaneously democratic forums and arenas of intimidation and exclusion. The model of rational public debate with which the student movements often began failed and gave way to a model of provocation.