Tag: anti-nuclear

“Ein zweites Wyhl” or “Ein zweites Brokdorf”? Nonviolence and Violence in the Movement Against Nuclear Power, 1968-1981

Presented at the annual conference of the German Studies Association, Louisville, Kentucky, 23 September 2011. Abstract: In the history of the West German opposition to nuclear power, the first mass demonstrations in Wyhl (1975) and Brokdorf (1976) would seem to stand at opposite ends of the spectrum: whereas the occupation of the nuclear power plant…
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“Radioactivity Doesn’t Stop at the Border and Neither Do We!” The Anti-Nuclear Movement along the Franco-German Border, 1968–1981

Presented at the Doktorandensommerschule/Ecole doctorale d’été “Grenzen und regionale Ströme/ Frontières et circulations régionales”, Europa-Universität Viadrina & Université Paris 1, Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany, 5 July 2011.

After 68: Transnational Activism in France and West Germany, 1968-1981

Presented at the postgraduate workshop of the German Historical Institute in London, 14 January 2011.

Wyhl versus Malville. Transnationalitäten einer deutsch-französischen Anti-Atomkraft-Bewegung

Presented at Jour fixe der Forschungsgruppe “Zivilgesellschaft, Citizenship und politische Mobilisierung in Europa”, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, 8 July 2010.

The Transnational within the Local: Protests against Nuclear Power in France and West Germany, 1972-1981

Presented at workshop on ‘Writing Europe into the World’, History faculty, University of Oxford, 15 May 2010.