Student Resistance in the Age of Chaos. Book 1, 1999-2009: Globalization, Human Rights, Religion, War, and the Age of the Internet
The first all-encompassing history of today's global student activism movement.

Student resistance in the first decade of the 21st century was the single most powerful liberating force around the globe during those years. Challenging governments—in a few cases, overturning governments—at a time when representational democracies appeared weak and authoritarian regimes were on the rise. In Student Resistance in the Age of Chaos, Book 1, Mark Boren goes continent by continent, country by country, to show us the contours of the new frontlines of resistance, the sacrifices that were made, the seismic changes caused by the Internet, and the new powers of surveillance and military technology that governments across the globe used to monitor and suppress student groups, raising the stakes and the human cost of resistance in many countries.
Mark Boren's previous book on the subject, Student Resistance: A History of the Unruly Subject (Routledge), charted the history from medieval times through the modern period, stopping in 1999. Student Resistance in the Age of Chaos, Book 1, takes us forward into the eventful first decade of the new century, and is being published simultaneously with Student Resistance in the Age of Chaos, Book 2, 2010-2020: Social Media, Women's Rights, and the Rise of Activism in a Time of Nationalism, Mass Migrations, and Climate Change. As Mark Boren writes in the book, "Student resistance throws into relief the relationships within our societies between the rulers and the people. It defines cultural moments and indicates the directions in which nations are heading. And if student activism has a rich and storied past, it is just as true that student movements are shaping the world more than they ever have before."
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Student Resistance in the Age of Chaos. Book 1, 1999-2009: Globalization, Human Rights, Religion, War, and the Age of the Internet
The first all-encompassing history of today's global student activism movement.

Student resistance in the first decade of the 21st century was the single most powerful liberating force around the globe during those years. Challenging governments—in a few cases, overturning governments—at a time when representational democracies appeared weak and authoritarian regimes were on the rise. In Student Resistance in the Age of Chaos, Book 1, Mark Boren goes continent by continent, country by country, to show us the contours of the new frontlines of resistance, the sacrifices that were made, the seismic changes caused by the Internet, and the new powers of surveillance and military technology that governments across the globe used to monitor and suppress student groups, raising the stakes and the human cost of resistance in many countries.
Mark Boren's previous book on the subject, Student Resistance: A History of the Unruly Subject (Routledge), charted the history from medieval times through the modern period, stopping in 1999. Student Resistance in the Age of Chaos, Book 1, takes us forward into the eventful first decade of the new century, and is being published simultaneously with Student Resistance in the Age of Chaos, Book 2, 2010-2020: Social Media, Women's Rights, and the Rise of Activism in a Time of Nationalism, Mass Migrations, and Climate Change. As Mark Boren writes in the book, "Student resistance throws into relief the relationships within our societies between the rulers and the people. It defines cultural moments and indicates the directions in which nations are heading. And if student activism has a rich and storied past, it is just as true that student movements are shaping the world more than they ever have before."
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Student Resistance in the Age of Chaos. Book 1, 1999-2009: Globalization, Human Rights, Religion, War, and the Age of the Internet

Student Resistance in the Age of Chaos. Book 1, 1999-2009: Globalization, Human Rights, Religion, War, and the Age of the Internet

by Mark Edelman Boren
Student Resistance in the Age of Chaos. Book 1, 1999-2009: Globalization, Human Rights, Religion, War, and the Age of the Internet

Student Resistance in the Age of Chaos. Book 1, 1999-2009: Globalization, Human Rights, Religion, War, and the Age of the Internet

by Mark Edelman Boren

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The first all-encompassing history of today's global student activism movement.

Student resistance in the first decade of the 21st century was the single most powerful liberating force around the globe during those years. Challenging governments—in a few cases, overturning governments—at a time when representational democracies appeared weak and authoritarian regimes were on the rise. In Student Resistance in the Age of Chaos, Book 1, Mark Boren goes continent by continent, country by country, to show us the contours of the new frontlines of resistance, the sacrifices that were made, the seismic changes caused by the Internet, and the new powers of surveillance and military technology that governments across the globe used to monitor and suppress student groups, raising the stakes and the human cost of resistance in many countries.
Mark Boren's previous book on the subject, Student Resistance: A History of the Unruly Subject (Routledge), charted the history from medieval times through the modern period, stopping in 1999. Student Resistance in the Age of Chaos, Book 1, takes us forward into the eventful first decade of the new century, and is being published simultaneously with Student Resistance in the Age of Chaos, Book 2, 2010-2020: Social Media, Women's Rights, and the Rise of Activism in a Time of Nationalism, Mass Migrations, and Climate Change. As Mark Boren writes in the book, "Student resistance throws into relief the relationships within our societies between the rulers and the people. It defines cultural moments and indicates the directions in which nations are heading. And if student activism has a rich and storied past, it is just as true that student movements are shaping the world more than they ever have before."

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781644210369
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Publication date: 09/28/2021
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 5.71(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.77(d)

About the Author

Mark Edelman Boren's books include Student Resistance: A History of the Unruly Subject (Routledge, 2001) and Sugar, Slavery, Christianity and the Making of Race (Caribbean Studies Press, 2015). He is also a visual artist whose artwork has been exhibited at Whitechapel Gallery in London, and Threadwaxing in New York. His passions include the fight for social justice, psychoanalysis, and romanticism. Currently Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, he has published on a wide array of writers, including Blake, Byron, Eliot, Faulkner, and Melville. He lives in the Wilmington, North Carolina area.

Table of Contents

Book 1, 1999-2009: Globalization, Human Rights, Religion, War, and the Age of the Internet

Acknowledgments ix

Preface xiii

Introduction: Student Resistance Drives Social Evolution 1

Prelude to the chaos: Watershed Developments in Student

Activism and Traditional Strategies of Resistance 9

1 Antiwar Protests, Internet Activism, and the Power of Divestment in North America 35

2 War, the Push for Liberalism, and Conservative Backlash in the Middle East 53

3 Educational Reforms, Virtual Activism, Anticapitalism, and the Growth of International Networks in Europe 75

4 Prodemocracy Revolutions, the Color Revolutions, and the Changing Tactics of Activism in Eastern Europe and Russia 107

5 Technological Explosions, Revolutions, and Gender Justice Movements in Asia and Australia 135

6 Student Networking, Violence, and Social Upheaval in Africa 189

7 International Networks, Indigenous Peoples' Rights, and Economic Justice in Mexico, Central America, South America, and Island Nations 211

Thoughts on The Transformation and Power Of Student Resistance 235

Notes 241

Bibliography 247

Index 261

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