Protest and Democracy in West Germany
Author | : Rob Burns |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Germany (West) |
ISBN | : 9780312016814 |
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Author | : Rob Burns |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Germany (West) |
ISBN | : 9780312016814 |
Author | : Anna von der Goltz |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198849524 |
This is a history of 1968 written from a new perspective-that of center-right student activists in West Germany. Based on oral history interviews and new archival sources, it examines the ideas, experiences, and repertoires of center-right students in this age of protest. Writing these activists back into the history of 1968 and its afterlives -including student protest, cultural revolt, internationalism, debates about left-wing violence and the terror of the Red Army Faction, the memory wars of the 1980s and beyond - reveals that this was a broader, more versatile, and, ultimately, more consequential phenomenon than the traditionally narrower focus on a left-wing minority allows. Other '68ers demonstrates that we need a more nuanced history of the 1968 generation and of generational conflict during these years. Student activists comprised individuals from across the political spectrum, who often had very different ideas about what kind of a society they envisaged and how to address the shortcomings of West German democracy. 1968 was a moment of intense political conflict, but it also played out within the student body and nurtured contrasting identities. This book shows that the center-right involvement in 1968 had real consequences. Many of the protagonists of this book would go on to pursue high-profile political careers and leave their mark on West German political culturey. Other '68ers therefore sheds fresh light on how West Germany's center-right dealt with the crisis of hegemony and political identity it experienced in the wake of 1968, how it coped with generational change, how it transformed and modernized after losing power at the national level for the first time in 1969, and how it managed to re-emerge so successfully in the 1980s.
Author | : Nick Thomas |
Publisher | : Berg 3pl |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2003-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This social history of protest movements in 1960s Germany places the protests within the wider contexts of social change and international events. It makes extensive use of archival material to reconstruct a historical narrative.
Author | : Anna von der Goltz |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2021-05-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0192589350 |
This is a history of 1968 written from a new perspective-that of center-right student activists in West Germany. Based on oral history interviews and new archival sources, it examines the ideas, experiences, and repertoires of center-right students in this age of protest. Writing these activists back into the history of 1968 and its afterlives -including student protest, cultural revolt, internationalism, debates about left-wing violence and the terror of the Red Army Faction, the memory wars of the 1980s and beyond - reveals that this was a broader, more versatile, and, ultimately, more consequential phenomenon than the traditionally narrower focus on a left-wing minority allows. Other '68ers demonstrates that we need a more nuanced history of the 1968 generation and of generational conflict during these years. Student activists comprised individuals from across the political spectrum, who often had very different ideas about what kind of a society they envisaged and how to address the shortcomings of West German democracy. 1968 was a moment of intense political conflict, but it also played out within the student body and nurtured contrasting identities. This book shows that the center-right involvement in 1968 had real consequences. Many of the protagonists of this book would go on to pursue high-profile political careers and leave their mark on West German political culturey. Other '68ers therefore sheds fresh light on how West Germany's center-right dealt with the crisis of hegemony and political identity it experienced in the wake of 1968, how it coped with generational change, how it transformed and modernized after losing power at the national level for the first time in 1969, and how it managed to re-emerge so successfully in the 1980s.
Author | : Martin Klimke |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2011-09-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691152462 |
Using previously classified documents and original interviews, The Other Alliance examines the channels of cooperation between American and West German student movements throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, and the reactions these relationships provoked from the U.S. government. Revising the standard narratives of American and West German social mobilization, Martin Klimke demonstrates the strong transnational connections between New Left groups on both sides of the Atlantic. Klimke shows that the cold war partnership of the American and German governments was mirrored by a coalition of rebelling counterelites, whose common political origins and opposition to the Vietnam War played a vital role in generating dissent in the United States and Europe. American protest techniques such as the "sit-in" or "teach-in" became crucial components of the main organization driving student activism in West Germany--the German Socialist Student League--and motivated American and German student activists to construct networks against global imperialism. Klimke traces the impact that Black Power and Germany's unresolved National Socialist past had on the German student movement; he investigates how U.S. government agencies, such as the State Department's Interagency Youth Committee, advised American policymakers on confrontations with student unrest abroad; and he highlights the challenges student protesters posed to cold war alliances. Exploring the catalysts of cross-pollination between student protest movements on two continents, The Other Alliance is a pioneering work of transnational history.
Author | : Ruud Koopmans |
Publisher | : Westview Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1995-07-26 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Koopmans bases his study on new extensive data on more than 3,000 protest events between 1965 and 1989 and on the characteristics of the most important organizations of the new social movements.
Author | : Roger Karapin |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2010-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0271045507 |
Roger Karapin examines protest movements of all shades to understand why they became influential & also why different forms of protest come to be used in different circumstances.
Author | : Stephen Milder |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2017-04-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108228690 |
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.
Author | : Karrin Hanshew |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2012-08-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107017378 |
Karrin Hanshew examines West German responses to 1970s terrorism to explain why the experience had lasting significance for German politics and society.
Author | : Elim Papadakis |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2014-12-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1317540301 |
The Green Movement in Germany is widely regarded as one of the most powerful expressions of popular opposition to government policies. A broad analysis of this powerful group is made in this book, showing that the origins of the movement relate to the general protests against industrialisation in the nineteenth century and also to more recent forms of protest. The author assesses the challenge posed by the Green Movement to established groups and organisations both in proposing alternative policies and in a long run of electoral successes. The Green Movement has evidently had a great impact on assumptions about defence, welfare and environmental policies. Data from major surveys on public attitudes and interviews with senior officials complete the picture of the practical and theoretical dimensions of the Green Movement.