ABSTRACT:
This article discusses the past and present relations regarding the cultural and political transformations of memory of May 1968, signaling the reappearance of this debate in Europe during the next 40 years. We identify a discursive turning point concerning the past commemorations in that forty-year celebration, identifying the distancing and political refusal of the past. Starting from the analysis of the memory gaps of the student movement, we analyze the social relations that allowed this temporal demarcation and its insertion in the present's memory, besides analyzing that some aspects of forgetfulness are at the origin of this refusal. The article concludes by presenting substantiation elements of these issues, looking at the questioning and distrust about 1968, which opened a dispute for those movements' political and memorial legacy in the context of the global protests of the early 2010s.
Keywords:
May 68; sixties; counterculture; memory; history of the present time