Kornetis - Children of the dictatorship: student resistance, cultural politics and the Long 1960s in Greece

Children of the Dictatorship

Protest, Culture and Society

General editors:

Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Institute for Media and Communication, University of Hamburg.

Martin Klimke, New York University Abu Dhabi.

Joachim Scharloth, Technische Universitt Dresden, Germany.

Protest movements have been recognized as significant contributors to processes of political participation and transformations of culture and value systems, as well as to the development of both a national and transnational civil society.

This series brings together the various innovative approaches to phenomena of social change, protest and dissent which have emerged in recent years, from an interdisciplinary perspective. It contextualizes social protest and cultures of dissent in larger political processes and socio-cultural transformations by examining the influence of historical trajectories and the response of various segments of society, political and legal institutions on a national and international level. In doing so, the series offers a more comprehensive and multi-dimensional view of historical and cultural change in the twentieth and twenty-first century.

Volume 1

Voices of the Valley, Voices of the Straits: How Protest Creates Communities

Donatella della Porta and Gianni Piazza

Volume 2

Transformations and Crises: The Left and the Nation in Denmark and Sweden, 19561980

Thomas Ekman Jrgensen

Volume 3

Changing the World, Changing Oneself: Political Protest and Collective Identities in

West Germany and the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s

Edited by Belinda Davis, Wilfried Mausbach, Martin Klimke, and Carla MacDougall

Volume 4

The Transnational Condition: Protest Dynamics in an Entangled Europe

Edited by Simon Teune

Volume 5

Protest Beyond Borders: Revisiting Social Mobilization in Europe after 1945

Edited by Hara Kouki and Eduardo Romanos

Volume 6

Between the Avantgarde and the Everyday: Subversive Politics in Europe, 19582008

Edited by Timothy Brown and Lorena Anton

Volume 7

Between Prague Spring and French May: Opposition and Revolt in Europe 19601980

Edited by Martin Klimke, Jacco Pekelder, and Joachim Scharloth

Volume 8

The Third World in the Global 1960s

Edited by Samantha Christiansen and Zachary A. Scarlett

Volume 9

The German Student Movement and the Literary Imagination: Transnational Memories of Protest and Dissent

Susanne Rinner

Volume 10

Children of the Dictatorship: Student Resistance, Cultural Politics, and the Long 1960s in Greece

Kostis Kornetis

Volume 11

Media and Revolt: Strategies and Performances from the 1960s to the Present

Edited by Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Erling Sivertsen and Rolf Werenskjold

Volume 12

Europeanizing Contention: The Protest against Fortress Europe in France and Germany

Pierre Monforte

Volume 13

Militant Around the Clock? Left-Wing Youth Politics, Leisure and Sexuality in Post-Dictatorship Greece, 19741981

Nikolaos Papadogiannis

Volume 14

Protest in Hitlers National Community:Popular Unrest and the Nazi Response

Edited by Nathan Stoltzfus and Birgit Maier-Katkin

Volume 15

Comrades of Color: East Germany in the Cold War World

Edited by Quinn Slobodian

Volume 16

Social Movement Studies in Europe: The State of the Art

Edited by Guya Accornero and Olivier Fillieule

Volume 17

Protest Cultures: A Companion

Edited by Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Martin Klimke and Joachim Scharloth

Volume 18

The Revolution before the Revolution: Late Authoritarianism and Student Protest in Portugal

By Guya Accornero

Children of the Dictatorship

Student Resistance, Cultural Politics,
and the Long 1960s in Greece

Kostis Kornetis

First published in 2013 by

Berghahn Books

www.berghahnbooks.com

2013, 2016 Kostis Kornetis

First paperback edition published in 2016

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kornetis, Kostis.

Children of the dictatorship : student resistance, cultural politics, and the long 1960s in Greece / Kostis Kornetis.

pages cm. (Protest, culture and society)

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-1-78238-000-9 (hardback) ISBN 978-1-78533-033-9 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-78238-001-6 (ebook)

1. Student movementsGreeceHistory20th century. 2. College studentsPolitical activityGreeceHistory20th century. 3. Ethnikon Metsovion Polytechneion (Greece)Student strike, 1973. 4. Greece Politics and government19671974. 5. GreeceSocial conditions20th century. I. Title.

LA788.7.K67 2013

378.198109495dc23

2013015977

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 978-1-78238-000-9 hardback

ISBN 978-1-78533-033-9 paperback

ISBN 978-1-78238-001-6 ebook

This book took many years to come to fruition. Partly because of its sheer lengththe original comparison with Spain had to be left out for logistical reasonsand partly because of the major modifications that the exigencies of the book project demanded. In this long and painful process, I was accompanied throughout by the wise advice and guidance I had received during my Florence years. My then supervisor, Luisa Passerini, remained a powerful inspiration and a precious interlocutor throughout these years. Antonis Liakos, a mentor and a friend, continued to be a solid point of reference, always offering me extremely detailed and insightful comments. Donatella della Porta, always generous in her praise and fair in her criticism, never ceased to be a point of reference, as we kept discussing the student movements of the 1960s in terms of their afterlives at present. Conversations with Katherine Fleming on historiography have been invaluable, while Nancy Bermeo, Karen Van Dyck, and Philip Carabott remained inspiring forces and sources of instruction for the entire project and its cultural and political nuances.

I would like to thank the publisher Marion Berghahn for her trust and my Genosse Martin Klimke for inviting me to participate in the intellectual adventure of the book series on Protest, Culture and Society, which he coedits, alongside Joachim Scharloth and Kathrin Fahlenbrach. Even though our collaboration proved to be at times tense, due to disagreements regarding the form and content of the manuscript, it always remained within the boundaries of mutual respect and appreciation. In the end, I believe that Martin helped me make a much better and more readable book. My gratitude also goes to the three reviewers of the manuscript, James Green, Nikos Papadogiannis, and Dimitris Papanikolaou. I was honored to receive their feedback, criticism, and praise, as all three men have been, in different ways and capacities, precious intellectual fellow travelers throughout the years. I am particularly grateful to Efi Avdela for discussing my ideas in her graduate seminar, as well as to Natalie Bakopoulos, Ciara Foster, Sakis Gekas, Kostis Karpozilos, David Konstan, and Constantina Zanou for reading and commenting impeccably on parts of the book. Katerina Lambrinou, apart from reading excerpts of the manuscript, was so kind as to share some of her own archival material with me, for which I am deeply grateful. Paige Sarlin should be singled out for her invaluable feedback but also for being the godmother of this intellectual child. I am thankful to Ruth Homrighous, Lydia Carr, and Kristine Hunt for their valuable help with editing the manuscript at different stages. I am indebted to Elizabeth Berg for her helpful advice and support throughout the editing process. The final version of the book is the outcome of the careful editing and proofreading of Heidi Broome-Raines, to whom I am grateful.