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Revolt or Transgression? Squatted Houses and Meeting Places of the Heroin Scene in Zurich and Berlin as Spaces of Transgressive Youth

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A European Youth Revolt

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Was there a European youth revolt in 1981? Media images of protesting, sometimes even rioting, youths in various European cities seem to confirm this assumption. But the ‘youth revolt’ featured teenagers as well as thirty-somethings. In this sense, it was, rather, a sociological and media category and an attempt to understand certain social crises in relation to the critical stage of youth. The term ‘youth revolt’ may well therefore disguise important differences in regard to the (perceived) class or educational background, the race or gender of activists.

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Friedrichs, JH. (2016). Revolt or Transgression? Squatted Houses and Meeting Places of the Heroin Scene in Zurich and Berlin as Spaces of Transgressive Youth. In: Andresen, K., van der Steen, B. (eds) A European Youth Revolt. Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-56570-9_6

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