France – Andrew S. Tompkins

Rezension: Vaillot, L’invention d’une frontière

30/09/2025

Monographie rezensiert für Francia-Recensio (2025/3). Fazit: Vaillot argumentiert, dass die deutsch-französische Grenze beispielhaft für Entwicklungen an anderen europäischen Grenzen war. Vielleicht wichtiger ist seine Relativierung einiger vermeintlich »normaler« Elemente moderner Grenzen: Pässe, Schlagbäume und die Kontrolle des Luftraums gehörten lange nicht zum Instrumentarium des Staates, ihnen wurde anfangs mit Ablehnung und Skepsis begegnet. Die Forschungsleistung…
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Malville - Objectif: 99.999 (Brice Lalonde ne viendra pas)

An “Ecological Internationale?” Nuclear Energy Opponents in Western Europe (1975-1980)

23/02/2023

Chapter published in Michele Di Donato and Mathieu Fulla (eds.), Leftist Internationalisms: A Transnational Political History (London: Bloomsbury, 2023), pp. 219–232. doi:10.5040/9781350252523.ch-14 Extract: The ‘Ecological Internationale’ [imagined by the French Interior Ministry] was never as united as French authorities or their West German counterparts imagined it to be. Indeed, it might well be argued that…
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Not Here, Not Anywhere: Local and Transnational Anti-Nuclear Protest in 1970s France and West Germany

08/03/2021

Presentation for Institut de Recherches Historiques du Septentrion/Université de Lille “Politicisations: Emotions, Sociabilities, Frontiers” seminar

Generating Post-Modernity: Nuclear Energy Opponents and the Future in the 1970s

20/01/2021

Article published in European Review of History / Revue européenne d’histoire 28 (4), 2021, pp. 507-530. Abstract: During the 1970s, industrialised society seemed to be on the cusp of sweeping change, moving away from the Fordist ‘modern’ era and into an undefined ‘post-modern’ future. To contemporaries in France and West Germany, arguably nothing symbolized this…
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Towards a ‘Europe of Struggles’? Three Visions of Europe in the Early Anti-Nuclear Energy Movement, 1975–79

08/10/2020

Chapter published in Christian Wenkel, Eric Bussière, Anahita Grisoni and Hélène Miard-Delacroix, eds., The Environment and the European Public Sphere: Perceptions, Actors, Policies (Cambridge: White Horse Press, 2020), 124–146. See a review of this book here. Abstract: During the 1970s, opposition to nuclear energy was structured primarily by local siting decisions related to national nuclear…
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« L’électro-fascisme n’a pas de frontière ! » : Histoire croisée du mouvement anti-nucléaire en France et en RFA, 1968-1981

02/12/2019

Présentation à L’Institut d’études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), dans le cadre du séminaire « Acteurs et mouvements sociaux », coordonné par Gerd-Rainer HORN, le 2 décembre 2019. Dans les années 1970, l’opposition à l’énergie nucléaire était un mouvement transnational, présent dans plusieurs pays dans le monde. Mais, pour les acteurs mobilisés à la base, qu’est-ce que…
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Pacifism, Self-Defense, Mass Violence: Varieties of Militancy in the 1970s French-German Anti-Nuclear Energy Movement

14/05/2019

Presented at Historiska institutionen, Stockholm University.

Fließende Grenzen? Der Alltag am Rhein und an der Oder, 1949–1989

24/04/2019

Gastvortrag für das “Research Factory” des Viadrina-Centers B/orders in Motion.

For Farm and Fatherland? Claiming German Property on French Territory after 1945

11/04/2019

Presented at the ‘Managing the Land’ workshop at the European University Institute in Florence, 11 April 2019.

Ungerecht, undemokratisch, unsicher. Argumente und Akteure der deutsch-französischen Anti-AKW-Bewegung der 1970er Jahre

19/11/2018

Vortrag am Deutschen Museum in München im Rahmen des Oberseminars Technikgeschichte.

Review: Smith, Terror and Terroir

29/09/2018

Monograph reviewed for French History, Volume 32, Issue 4, December 2018, pp. 615–617. doi:10.1093/fh/cry078 Summary: In the summer of 1907, France’s Midi rouge (the ‘red South’) was in revolt, with regular Sunday protests in towns throughout the region drawing as many as 600,000 participants. After protesters torched buildings in Narbonne, the military occupied the town,…
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May ’68: The Beginning of a Long Struggle

10/06/2018

Presentation for student conference, University of Sheffield, 10 June 2018.

’68 within and beyond France

17/05/2018

Presentation given as part of the ‘1968: A Global Revolt Fifty Years On’ panel discussion organised by the University of Sheffield Centre for Contemporary and Modern History.

Review: Davey, Idealism Beyond Borders

19/12/2017

Monograph reviewed for Social History, Vol. 43, No. 1 (2018), pp. 156-158. doi:10.1080/03071022.2017.1397367 Summary: Davey convincingly argues that tiers-mondisme and sans-frontiérisme were never so far apart as their advocates subsequently claimed, showing that they always shared key points of reference (the post-colonial third world, the Second World War) and even key practices (e.g. ‘speaking out’,…
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Interview with New Books Network

28/11/2017

Interview with Ryan Stackhouse of the New Books Network (for New Books in German Studies).

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