The Zurich Summer of 1968

Edition of Primary Sources and
Electronic Text Corpus

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 (c) Joachim Scharloth

The Zurich Summer of 1968

Edition of Primary Sources and Electronic Text Corpus of the Swiss Antiauthoritarian Movement in Zurich 1968

Funded by the "Jubiläumsfonds der Universität Zürich"

1. Edition of Primary Sources: DVD-Rom and Textbook

On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the worldwide protest movement of 1968, we will be publishing the first edition of primary sources of protest events in Switzerland: the Zurich antiauthoritarian revolt. The edition centres around the key events of the revolt in the hot spring and summer of 1968: the disturbance of academic rituals such as the flambeau procession on behalf of the dies academicus, the outburst of violence during the "Globus Krawall" and the discussion-marathon of the "Zürcher Manifest".

The textbook will include representative sources in combination with essays on the Swiss 1968 movement: on key events of the Zurich revolt, on the forms and tactics of protest, on characteristic text types such as leaflets and placards, and on the narratives and the politics of memory connected with the revolt. Interviews with movement activists, a detailed chronology and a bibliography will round out the volume.

The edition's objective is to foster the research on the Swiss protest movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s, which have been neglected by historians so far. It aims at drawing attention to the regional peculiarities of what is usually viewed a global revolt and to the local recontextualization of international counter-cultural phenomena.


2. SwissMov-Corpus: Electronic Text Corpus of the Swiss Antiauthoritarian Movement Zurich 1968

The corpus contains brochures, leaflets, pamphlets, circulars, flyers and newspaper articles on the Zurich antiauthoritarian movement of 1968. It will be annotated according to the standards of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). A tool for linguistic corpus analysis by Noah Bubenhofer will allow to quantify and analyze the presence, meaning(s) and relationship(s) of keywords and concepts as well as of certain morphosyntactic phenomena. In addition, the tool will facilitate the combination of linguistic data with sociolinguistic features such as text types, writers and intended audience.


3. Project Members

Editors:
Susanne Haaf, Céline Jourdain, Monika Schnoz, Ursula Stutz, Peter Zaugg, Angela Zimmermann

Technical Support:
Noah Bubenhofer

Supervisors:
Angelika Linke and Joachim Scharloth


4. Contact

For any questions please contact Joachim Scharloth (scharloth [at] access.unizh.ch).