Mario Savio and the Politics of Authenticity

Rossinow, Doug

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“…[24] Like the potentially dangerous activities in 'nature' around which the programme was based, Outward Bound's commitment to including youth from many different backgrounds makes sense as part of the growing cultural preoccupation with 'authenticity' that historians have argued was so crucial to the disquiet in American culture during the 1960s. [25] The fact that the programme was seen as an equally valid response to both the hazards of affluence as well as the hazards of poverty is a striking example of the universalism of American liberalism in the post-war era. At the most basic level, the universalist creed projected a single, mainstream, middle-class American culture to which everyone should ideally be assimilating.…”

Section: Liberal Universalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

The muscular Christian ethos in post-second world war American liberalism: Women in Outward Bound 1962–1975

Millikan¹

2006

The International Journal of the History of Sport

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The muscular Christian ethos has long been perceived as one of the final bastions of masculine authority. At the turn of the twentieth century American middle-class male Protestants turned to sports and muscular pursuits in the face of the increasing power of women. Today, the legacy of the muscular Christian ethos lives on, but the gender politics have become much more ambiguous and complicated. This essay examines the evolution of the Outward Bound movement in America, as its focus shifted from an explicitly gendered masculine muscular ideology that aimed turn 'boys into men', into a coeducational programme that engaged with the ideas of humanistic psychology and sought to unlock individual human potential.

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Section: Liberal Universalismmentioning

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The muscular Christian ethos in post-second world war American liberalism: Women in Outward Bound 1962–1975

Millikan¹

2006

The International Journal of the History of Sport

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“…The speech quoted above was delivered by prominent FSM leader, Mario Savio, addressing a rally of fellow students before the largest of several sit-ins and demonstrations. FSM students protested about the attenuation of their education into narrow, technocratic training (Draper, 2009(Draper, [1965; Rossinow, 2002), and the increasingly disciplinarian governance of the university that reprimanded and expelled students for 'mounting social and political action' on campus (Draper, 2009(Draper, [1965: 35). These protests were highly prescient, feeding into contemporary debates about the nature, purpose, management and future of universities (Collini, 2012;Docherty, 2011Docherty, , 2015Gerber, 2014;Ginsberg, 2011).…”

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‘Upon the gears and upon the wheels’: Terror convergence and total administration in the neoliberal university

McCann

Granter²,

Hyde

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Management Learning

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University governance is becoming increasingly autocratic as marketization intensifies. Far from the classical ideal of a professional collegium run according to academic norms, today’s universities feature corporate cultures and senior leadership teams disconnected from both staff and students, and intolerant of dissenting views. This is not a completely new phenomenon. In 1960s America, senior leaders developed a technocratic and managerialist model of the university, in keeping with theories around the ‘convergence’ of socio-economic systems towards a pluralist ‘industrial society’. This administrative-managerial vision was opposed by radical students, triggering punitive responses that reflected how universities’ control measures were at the time mostly aimed at students. Today, their primary target is academics. Informed by Critical Theory and based on an autoethnographic account of a university restructuring programme, we argue that the direction of convergence in universities has not been towards liberal, pluralist, democracy but towards neo-Stalinist organizing principles. Performance measurements – ‘targets and terror’ – are powerful mechanisms for the expansion of managerial power or, in Marcuse’s words, ‘total administration’. Total administration in the contemporary university damages teaching, learning, workplace democracy and freedom of speech on campus, suggesting that the critique of university autocracy by 1960s students and scholars remains highly relevant.

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“…Like their New Left colleagues, frustrated design students pursued what historian Doug Rossinow has called a "search for authenticity," especially an engagement with the "real," throughout the mid-1960s. 52 They sought practical design experience in the same low-income communities where other New Left activists pursued community organizing. Beginning in 1966, architecture students volunteered in rural Kentucky, where they constructed community buildings and homes for impoverished residents.…”

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Planning’s End? Urban Renewal in New Haven, the Yale School of Art and Architecture, and the Fall of the New Deal Spatial Order

Goldstein

2011

Journal of Urban History

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This article argues that the movement against urban renewal emerged not only in the streets of American cities, but also in the halls of American universities. In response to the extensive redevelopment of New Haven in the 1950s and 1960s, students at the Yale School of Art and Architecture, and especially in the Department of City Planning, marshaled an extensive critique of their expanding university’s role in this top-down reconstruction. In the plight of impacted communities they found a parallel to their own frustrations as students. Envisioning a more “relevant” design pedagogy that deemphasized the role of the professional and lent greater power to the grassroots, students forced the hand of Yale president Kingman Brewster, Jr., who sought to protect the expertise and bureaucratic process he viewed as essential to liberalism. In their confrontation lay a fundamental shift in the order of urban redevelopment—and thus in the order of the modern city—in the last years of the 1960s.

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Mario Savio and the Politics of Authenticity

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The muscular Christian ethos in post-second world war American liberalism: Women in Outward Bound 1962–1975

The muscular Christian ethos in post-second world war American liberalism: Women in Outward Bound 1962–1975

‘Upon the gears and upon the wheels’: Terror convergence and total administration in the neoliberal university

Planning’s End? Urban Renewal in New Haven, the Yale School of Art and Architecture, and the Fall of the New Deal Spatial Order

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