Youth, bohemia and social movements: student cultures and struggles at the University of Coimbra.
This text takes up some of its author’s recent work on student youth in Coimbra. Centered around the Coimbra university environment and an academic tradition of over 700 years of history, its primary objective is to question some current tendencies among university students, thr...
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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)
2010
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| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/politica/article/view/2175-7984.2010v9n16p257 http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=br/br-033&d=article13396oai |
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This text takes up some of its author’s recent work on student youth in
Coimbra. Centered around the Coimbra university environment and an
academic tradition of over 700 years of history, its primary objective is
to question some current tendencies among university students, through
the acute gaze of a professor who has been involved in the student and
daily life of the city for over 20 years. It attempts to identify subjectivities,
participatory logics and attitudes of indifference/demarcation among different
segments of the student population. More than a phenomenological
register of daily life in academia, the text is meant to capture of the past and the ways in which they can (or cannot) be appropriated
by the current generation of students. On the other hand, the profound
changes of recent decades, both in Portugal itself and within the Portuguese
higher educational system, have reoriented behavior, expectations
and forms of action of the current university population, encouraging its
distancing with regard to this past and a ‘forgetting’ of the meaning of the
social movements which during the 1960s contributed to undermining the
Salazar and Caetano dictatorship. The reflections that are proposed here
attempt to explain this phenomenon, while at the same time looking at
this particular context as an expression of other more general phenomena
that affect Portugal and the European democracies as a whole today.
Keywords: youth, university, Coimbra, students, student movement, social
movements, tradition, bohemia.
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