“…We feel such an analysis will be an important supplement to the way we normally treat geography and that this can create a more conscious stance towards the subject's application. (Buch-Hansen 1972:9) As illustrated by this quote, Marxism-the "lingua franca" of the transnational Left of the 1960s (Mohandesi et al 2018)-was from the outset the stated basis for Fagligt Forum. Marxism quickly became dominant in the Danish student revoltand the "red decade" that followed (Jørgensen and Jensen 2008).…”
Section: Fagligt Forummentioning
confidence: 99%
“…(Buch‐Hansen 1972:9)As illustrated by this quote, Marxism—the “lingua franca” of the transnational Left of the 1960s (Mohandesi et al. 2018)—was from the outset the stated basis for Fagligt Forum. Marxism quickly became dominant in the Danish student revolt—and the “red decade” that followed (Jørgensen and Jensen 2008).…”
Section: Everything Is About Power 1971–1975mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…But as the activists of the “long 1968” tended to “project their desires onto other struggles” (Mohandesi et al. 2018:22), so we should be wary of projecting our contemporary desires for change onto past successes (and disappointments). Also when it comes to radical‐geographical traditions, they should be seen as “articulated in the midst of the particularities of time and place” (Livingstone 1992:358).…”
Section: Coda: Amidst the Particularities Of Time And Placementioning
Largely unrecognised in prevailing historical accounts of (radical) geography, Danish university geography from the late 1960s saw the emergence of a strong radical strand. In terms of student support, this radical geography became a dominant feature of geography at the University of Copenhagen, and was a defining element in the establishment of geography at the new Roskilde University Centre. This radical movement spawned its own journal, had a strong impact on upper‐secondary school geography, and played an important part in developing the Nordic critical geography network. As a contribution to the emerging situated histories of radical and critical geography, this article investigates the conditions of possibility for the rise of radical geography in Copenhagen and the movement’s institutionalisation during the 1970s. More briefly, the article also considers the transformative crisis of Danish radical geography in the 1980s.
“…We feel such an analysis will be an important supplement to the way we normally treat geography and that this can create a more conscious stance towards the subject's application. (Buch-Hansen 1972:9) As illustrated by this quote, Marxism-the "lingua franca" of the transnational Left of the 1960s (Mohandesi et al 2018)-was from the outset the stated basis for Fagligt Forum. Marxism quickly became dominant in the Danish student revoltand the "red decade" that followed (Jørgensen and Jensen 2008).…”
Section: Fagligt Forummentioning
confidence: 99%
“…(Buch‐Hansen 1972:9)As illustrated by this quote, Marxism—the “lingua franca” of the transnational Left of the 1960s (Mohandesi et al. 2018)—was from the outset the stated basis for Fagligt Forum. Marxism quickly became dominant in the Danish student revolt—and the “red decade” that followed (Jørgensen and Jensen 2008).…”
Section: Everything Is About Power 1971–1975mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…But as the activists of the “long 1968” tended to “project their desires onto other struggles” (Mohandesi et al. 2018:22), so we should be wary of projecting our contemporary desires for change onto past successes (and disappointments). Also when it comes to radical‐geographical traditions, they should be seen as “articulated in the midst of the particularities of time and place” (Livingstone 1992:358).…”
Section: Coda: Amidst the Particularities Of Time And Placementioning
Largely unrecognised in prevailing historical accounts of (radical) geography, Danish university geography from the late 1960s saw the emergence of a strong radical strand. In terms of student support, this radical geography became a dominant feature of geography at the University of Copenhagen, and was a defining element in the establishment of geography at the new Roskilde University Centre. This radical movement spawned its own journal, had a strong impact on upper‐secondary school geography, and played an important part in developing the Nordic critical geography network. As a contribution to the emerging situated histories of radical and critical geography, this article investigates the conditions of possibility for the rise of radical geography in Copenhagen and the movement’s institutionalisation during the 1970s. More briefly, the article also considers the transformative crisis of Danish radical geography in the 1980s.
“…His general stance was a perfect synecdoche of the kind of institution to which the university students wanted to bid farewell. As for the role of the university in their rebellion, the student activists were generally divided between two strategies: a long march through the institutions or forming academic counter-institutions (Mohandesi et al., 2018: 134).…”
Section: The University and Activismmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Nonetheless, one formula for the university role stood out from this binary model. In their keynote address to the Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund members, the two most prominent activists of the time said: ‘The university forms a secure zone, or more exactly a social basis, in which and from which the guerrilla organises the struggle against the institutions’ (Dutschke and Krahl 1967, in Mohandesi et al., 2018: 139). It is in this context that one needs to understand the proclaimed death of Adorno as an institution.…”
In this paper, we place the issue of university activism in the context of constituent and constituted power. By this we mean the ever-present danger that activists’ demands will be co-opted and concurrently deactivated. To mitigate this risk, we develop a set of conceptual tools that enables thinking about the activist university in terms of instituent praxis; that is, an open process of co-becoming of an institution and its actors through the continuous co-production of rules that drive their actions. Contrary to the view of the university as something instituted, the activist university that we propose emphasises the possibility of sustaining the process of acting and its underlying rules, rather than the result of the act. The activist university is understood here as a crack that leaves the instituted university open every time the self-production of its subject emerges by the self-transformation of the actors in the very course of their activities. We observe a chance for grounding instituent praxis in the ontological shift in thinking the activist university from being to co-becoming, as this will allow for reclaiming the future for the university and its broader ecology.
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