Beyond Transnationalism

Mapping the Spatial Contours of Political Activism in Europe's Long 1970s

Sonja Levsen, Kiran Klaus Patel, Sonja Levsen, Kiran Klaus Patel

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781032447049
• eBook ISBN: 9781000879636
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

This book is a collection of case studies that provides fresh insights into the history of political activism in Europe's long 1970s. It covers the full spectrum of such groups, from the far left to the neofascist right, and from the various parts of Europe, including East and West. The chapters in this book push the boundaries of our knowledge with regard to transnational spaces. For many political activists at the time, identifying with a 'transnational' or 'global' protest movement provided both legitimacy for their claims and stood for the promise of sweeping change. Existing research has often reproduced such perceptions. This book goes beyond such an approach by distinguishing between different forms of transnational spaces. More specifically, it recognizes important differences between imagined spaces of solidarity and belonging, spaces of knowledge circulation and spaces of social experience and political action. Each chapter uses this new framework and analyses the interrelationship and significance of each of these three spaces.

Beyond Transnationalism will be of particular interest to historians, political scientists and educators. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of European Review of History.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Citation Information
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction: Imagined transnationalism? Mapping transnational spaces of political activism in Europe’s long 1970s
• 1 Signal strength excellent in West Germany: Radio Tirana, European Maoist internationalism and its disintegration in the global seventies
• 2 Ambiguities of transnationalism: Social opposition to the civil use of nuclear power in the United Kingdom and in West Germany during the 1970s
• 3 Seeking inclusion through redefining expertise: The changing spatial contours of disability activism in the long 1970s
• 4 Rebel code? The transnational imaginary of ‘armed struggle’ in the fall of Southern European dictatorships
• 5 Aidland in South Asia: Humanitarian crisis and the contours of the global aid industry in the long 1970s
• 6 ‘From Brest to Bucharest’: Neofascist transnational networks during the long 1970s
• 7 The spatial contours of transnational activism: Conceptual implications and the road forward
• Index