Greening Democracy
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Greening Democracy

The Anti-Nuclear Movement and Political Environmentalism in West Germany and Beyond, 1968–1983

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Greening Democracy

The Anti-Nuclear Movement and Political Environmentalism in West Germany and Beyond, 1968–1983

About this book

Greening Democracy explains how nuclear energy became a seminal political issue and motivated new democratic engagement in West Germany during the 1970s. Using interviews, as well as the archives of environmental organizations and the Green party, the book traces the development of anti-nuclear protest from the grassroots to parliaments. It argues that worries about specific nuclear reactors became the basis for a widespread anti-nuclear movement only after government officials' unrelenting support for nuclear energy caused reactor opponents to become concerned about the state of their democracy. Surprisingly, many citizens thought transnationally, looking abroad for protest strategies, cooperating with activists in other countries, and conceiving of 'Europe' as a potential means of circumventing recalcitrant officials. At this nexus between local action and global thinking, anti-nuclear protest became the basis for citizens' increasing engagement in self-governance, expanding their conception of democracy well beyond electoral politics and helping to make quotidian personal concerns political.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781107135109
eBook ISBN
9781108229623
Topic
History
Subtopic
European History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Series page
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of Illustrations
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Note on Translations and Acronyms
  11. Introduction: Taking the Democratic Dimensions of Anti-Nuclear Activism
  12. Chapter 1 “Today the Fish, Tomorrow Us”: The Threatened Upper Rhine and the Grassroots Origins of West European Environmentalism
  13. Chapter 2 A Different Watch on the Rhine: How Anti-Nuclear Activists Imagined the Alemannic Community and United a Region in Resistance
  14. Chapter 3 Onto the Site and into Significance? The Wyhl Occupation in Its Contexts, from Strasbourg to Kaiseraugst and Constance to Kiel
  15. Chapter 4 “Wyhl and Then What…?”* Between Grassroots Activism and Mass Protest
  16. Chapter 5 Political Questions, Grassroots Answers: Shaping an Environmental Approach to Electoral Politics
  17. Chapter 6 Organizing a “Decisive Battle Against Nuclear Power Plants”: Europe and the Nationalization of Green Politics in West Germany
  18. Conclusion: Protesting Nuclear Energy, Greening Democracy
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index