Rethinking Social Movements after '68

Selves and Solidarities in West Germany and Beyond

Belinda Davis, Friederike Brühöfener, Stephen Milder

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781800735651
• eBook ISBN: 9781800735668
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: 20th Century History
• Index: History

The year 1968 has widely been viewed as the only major watershed moment during the latter half of the twentieth century. Rethinking Social Movements after '68 takes on this conventional approach, exploring the spaces, practices, organization, ideas and agendas of numerous activists and movements across the 1970s and 1980s. From the Maoist Communist League to the women's movement, youth center movement, and gay liberation movement, established and emerging scholars across Europe and North America shed new light on the development of modern European popular politics and social change.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction — Social Movements after ’68: Histories, Selves, Solidarities
• Part I — Working with—and against—the Past
• Chapter 1 — Leaving the Borderlands . . . but for Where? 1968 and the New Registers of Political Feeling
• Chapter 2 — Conceptions of Democracy and West German New Social Movement Activism
• Chapter 3 — New Social Movements and the New Role of the Intellectual: From the “’68ers’” Critique (of the Intellectual) to (the Typus of) the “Specific Intellectual”
• Chapter 4 — Fighting with Feelings: Experiences of Protest and Emotional Practices in the Autonomous West German Women’s Movment during the 1970s and 1980s
• Part II — “Start Where You Are”
• Chapter 5 — “Break Down the Violence in a Place Where It Is Vulnerable”: The Urban ‘68 and Its Aftermath—Expert Critique, “Tenant Campaigns,” and Squatter Movements
• Chapter 6 — Running Over Trees in Germany: Social Movements and the US Army, 1975–85
• Chapter 7 — Radical Change Close to Home: Transforming the Self and Relations in West German Alternative Politics
• Chapter 8 — Changing the World for the Better: Women Activists’ Redefinitions of Identities, Relationships, and Society
• Chapter 9 — From Self-Organization to Self-Management: Paradigms of Social Movements in West Germany from ‘68 to the Early 1980s
• Part III — “Learn to Live in Solidarity”
• Chapter 10 — The Gay Movement in 1970s West Germany: Liberation in Its Multidimensional Context
• Chapter 11 — Radical Protest or Shadow Diplomacy? The Decolonization of Zimbabwe and West German Maoism, 1960–80
• Chapter 12 — Supporting a Revolution: West German Nicaragua Solidarity and Its Transnational Connections with the Nicaraguan Sandinistas
• Chapter 13 — East German Environmental Activism and the West: Connections, Common Ground, and Difference across the Iron Curtain
• Chapter 14 — Activists Divided? Continental Imaginations in West Germany’s 1968 and Beyond
• Conclusion — Democracy in the Streets, Social Change in the Countryside: Grassroots Struggles, Solidarity Work, and Political Power after ‘68
• Index