The DPhil thesis I completed in 2012 examined cross-border protest against nuclear energy in France and West Germany during the 1970s. Drawing on oral history interviews with more than 60 former activists as well as written sources from three dozen archives, it showed how individuals at the grassroots built up a movement that transcended national, political, cultural, and social boundaries, changing the nature of protest in the process.
The book based on this research, Better Active than Radioactive! Anti-Nuclear Protest in 1970s France and West Germany, was published with Oxford University Press in 2016.
Recent activities related to this research include the following:
- Towards a “Europe of Struggles?” Three Visions of Europe in the Early Anti-Nuclear Energy Movement (1975–79)
- An “Ecological Internationale?” Nuclear Energy Opponents in Western Europe (1975-1980)
- Not Here, Not Anywhere: Local and Transnational Anti-Nuclear Protest in 1970s France and West Germany
- Review: Augustine, Taking on Technocracy
- Towards a ‘Europe of Struggles’? Three Visions of Europe in the Early Anti-Nuclear Energy Movement, 1975–79
- Alle Wege führen nach Gorleben: Transnationale Netzwerke der Anti-AKW-Bewegung der 1970er Jahre
- « L’électro-fascisme n’a pas de frontière ! » : Histoire croisée du mouvement anti-nucléaire en France et en RFA, 1968-1981
- Ausstellung zum Gorleben-Treck 1979 im Historischen Museum Hannover
- Radioaktivität kennt keine Grenzen: Deutsch-französische Anti-AKW-Netzwerke der 1970er Jahre
- Pacifism, Self-Defense, Mass Violence: Varieties of Militancy in the 1970s French-German Anti-Nuclear Energy Movement