Occupy, Blockade, Riot: Seizing Space in the 1970s and 1980s
Teach-out for the University and College Union, University of Sheffield, 23 May 2018.
‘Radioactivity Doesn’t Stop at the Border’ Transnational Protest in 1970s France and West Germany
Talk given for Northumbria University’s History research seminar.
Interview with New Books Network
Interview with Ryan Stackhouse of the New Books Network (for New Books in German Studies).
„Lieber aktiv als radioaktiv“ Perspektiven auf die transnationalen Ursprünge der Anti-Atom-Bewegung
Gemeinsame Veranstaltung mit Steve Milder, um unsere beiden Bücher über die Anti-Atomkraft-Bewegung der 1970er Jahre bei der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung in Berlin vorzustellen.
History of Nuclear Campaigning
Talk on the history of French and West German opposition to nuclear energy during and since the 1970s, given at annual Friends of the Earth basecamp at Castleton YHA in the Peak District.
Better Active than Radioactive! Anti-Nuclear Protest in 1970s France and West Germany
Monograph published with Oxford University Press. During the 1970s, hundreds of thousands of people across Western Europe protested against civil nuclear energy. Nowhere were they more visible than in France and Germany-two countries where environmentalism seems to have diverged greatly since. This volume recovers the shared, transnational history of the early anti-nuclear movement, showing how…
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Grassroots Transnationalism(s). Franco-German Opposition to Nuclear Energy in the 1970s
Article published in Contemporary European History, vol 25, no. 1 (February 2016), 117-142. Abstract: During the 1970s opposition to nuclear energy was present in countries around the world and thus eminently ‘transnational’. But what did it mean to participate at the grassroots of such a transnational movement and (how) did cross-border connections change protest? This…
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Transnational mais pas trop européen? Le mouvement franco-allemand d’opposition à l’énergie nucléaire dans les années 1970
Présenté à l’Institut historique allemand à Paris dans le cadre du séminaire de recherche « Vers un espace public européen ? Une illustration par les questions environnementales ».
“Power to the Bauer!” Anti-Nuclear Occupations and Rural Space, 1975-1980
Presented at the 2015 annual conference of the German Studies Association in Washington, DC as part of the “Occupy, Blockade, Riot: Seizing Space in the 1970s and 1980s” panel. Abstract: In the course of the 1970s, the occupation of houses, factories, churches, and construction sites became a common denominator of diverse protests across Western Europe…
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Utopia or Dystopia? Cultural Representations of Nuclear Energy in Western European Anti-Nuclear Movements
A collaborative presentation by Karena Kalmbach, Matthias Lieb, Stephen Milder, Andrew Tompkins, and Dick van Lente at the Tensions of Europe conference, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, Stockholm, 3-6 September 2015. Our analysis focuses on representations of nuclear energy and of the anti-nuclear movement itself within them. Guided by our questioning of the stark contrasts between utopia…
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