WORLD WORLDWIDE FRANCE EUROPE - news journal UPDATE - (en) France, UCL AL #363 - Culture - Reading: Emmanuelle Dufour and Francis Dupuis-Déri, "When Students Rebelled" (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Published in 2047, twelve years after the Collapse of industrial

society, this history textbook revisits the concept of democracy as
understood in the world Before and the many mobilizations of young
people who refused to accept the world as it was. ---- Francis
Dupuis-Déri first popularizes the history of debates over common affairs
and collective decision-making around the world - not just in Greece -
as well as the myth of democracy under the Western parliamentary regime,
which he describes as nothing more than an "elective aristocracy." He
explains how schools instilled - or sought to instill - loyalty to this
system in young people and briefly recounts several student strikes and
the repression they faced. Finally, he describes the climate mobilization.

Although the transition and the collapse are not explicitly mentioned,
the author notes that young people were beginning "to have
organizational foundations" and were "ready to take more risks." He
describes their awakening. One student asks: "In a context where 500,000
people in the streets isn't enough, one can wonder what will be."

Readers are then invited to complete the slogans on the placards of
demonstrators in an image and to suggest "other forms of action that
could have been used." Instead of providing his own answers, the author
invites reflection while also highlighting the powerlessness of
demonstrations.

Like school textbooks, these ideas are presented in short boxes, as
captions to monochrome illustrations in the style of documentary photos.
Nourishing and subtly thought-provoking. From age 10?

Ernest London (UCL Le Puy-en-Velay)

Emmanuelle Dufour and Francis Dupuis-Déri, Quand les élèves se
révoltaient, Écosociété, 2025, 108 pages, 20 euros.

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