Journal article

When History Is Made in the Street

Pages 19 to 29

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  • Tartakowsky, D.
(2006). When History Is Made in the Street. Pouvoirs, No 116(1), 19-29. https://doi.org/10.3917/pouv.116.0019.

  • Tartakowsky, Danielle.
« When History Is Made in the Street ». Pouvoirs, 2006/1 No 116, 2006. p.19-29. CAIRN.INFO, droit.cairn.info/journal-pouvoirs-2006-1-page-19?lang=en.

  • TARTAKOWSKY, Danielle,
2006. When History Is Made in the Street. Pouvoirs, 2006/1 No 116, p.19-29. DOI : 10.3917/pouv.116.0019. URL : https://droit.cairn.info/journal-pouvoirs-2006-1-page-19?lang=en.

https://doi.org/10.3917/pouv.116.0019


English

After the defeat of the Paris Commune, the street ceased to make or destroy regimes. Street demonstrations that did remain major historical events, such as those of 1936 and 1968, drew their strength from the previous history that had shaped them. As both carriers and transmitters of a history whose emotional and stirring values they have tapped, they have emerged as powerful carriers of living memory and as the occasion of a brief encounter between individual and collective history.

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