Tag: Larzac

Alle Wege führen nach Gorleben: Transnationale Netzwerke der Anti-AKW-Bewegung der 1970er Jahre

Kapitel in: Detlef Schmiechen-Ackermann u.a. (Hg.), Der Gorleben-Treck 1979. Anti-Atom-Protest als soziale Bewegung und demokratischer Lernprozess (= Schriften zur Didaktik der Demokratie, Bd. 5), Göttingen 2020, S. 150–172. Fazit: Für eine dezentrale, lokal verankerte Bewegung wie die Anti-Atomkraft-Bewegung der 1970er Jahre waren transnationale Netzwerke besonders wichtig. Aus anderen, fremden Kontexten kamen weit mehr Ideen, als…
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The Transnational in the Local: The Larzac Plateau as a Site of Transnational Activism since 1970

Article co-written with Robert Gildea and published in Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 50, no. 3 (July 2015), 581-605.

« Larzac-Gorleben : même combat » ? Competing Franco-German Solidarities in Local Struggles of the 1970s

Presented at the annual conference of the Society for the Study of French History (SSFH), Cardiff, 30 June 2013. Abstract: Throughout the 1970s, the struggle of 103 farmers against the expansion of a military camp on the Larzac plateau attracted widespread support from French and foreign activists.  The farmers of the Larzac cultivated relations with…
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Whose Personal, Whose Political? Outsiders in the Larzac and Wyhl Struggles

Presented at the workshop on ‘The Personal is Political’, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, 27 August 2009.

After ’68: Transnational Activism in France and West Germany, 1968-1980

Presented at doctoral workshop on “The Twentieth Century in Europe: Moves, Transfers and Renewals”, École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, 20 June 2009.