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.
