Overview
With a focus on West Germany and Europe, Social Movements after '68 bridges the 1970s and 1980s as a vital period of European political development and social change. Looking past the known ruptures and changes in the history of European social movements, this volume brings together interconnected social movements including environmental, women's and gay rights movements.
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Author: Belinda Davis , Friederike Brühöfener , Stephen Milder
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Imprint: Berghahn Books
Volume: 31
ISBN: 9781836956549
ISBN 10: 1836956541
Pages: 382
Publication Date: 01 April 2026
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Table of Contents
List of Figures List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction: Social Movements after ’68: Histories, Selves, Solidarities Stephen Milder, Belinda Davis, and Friederike Brühöfener Part I: Working with—and against—the past Chapter 1. Leaving the borderlands … but for where? 1968 and the New Registers of Political Feeling Geoff Eley Chapter 2. Conceptions of Democracy and West German New Social Movement Activism Michael Hughes Chapter 3. New Social Movements and the New Role of the Intellectual: From the “’68ers” Critique to the “Specific Intellectual” Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey Chapter 4. Fighting with feelings: Experiences of Protest and Emotional Practices in the Autonomous West German Women’s Movement during the 1970s and 1980s Bernhard Gotto Part II: “Start where you are” Chapter 5. “Break down the violence in a place where it is vulnerable”: The Urban ‘68 and Its Aftermath – Expert Critique, “Tenant Campaigns,” and Squatter Movements Freia Anders Chapter 6. Running Over Trees in Germany: Social Movements and the US Army, 1975-1985 Adam Seipp Chapter 7. Radical Change Close to Home: Transforming the Self and Relations in West German Alternative Politics Belinda Davis Chapter 8. Changing the World for the Better: Women Activists’ Redefinitions of Identities, Relationships, and Society Friederike Brühöfener Chapter 9. From Self-Organization to Self-Management: Paradigms of Social Movements in West Germany from ‘68 to the early 1980s David Templin Part III: “Learn to live in solidarity” Chapter 10. The Gay Movement in 1970s West Germany: Liberation in its Multi-dimensional Context Craig Griffiths Chapter 11. Radical Protest or Shadow Diplomacy? The Decolonization of Zimbabwe and West German Maoism, 1960-1980 David Spreen Chapter 12. Supporting a Revolution: West German Nicaragua Solidarity and its transnational connections with the Nicaraguan Sandinistas Christian Helm Chapter 13. East German Environmental Activism and the West: Connections, Common Ground, and Difference across the Iron Curtain Julia Ault Chapter 14. Activists Divided? Continental Imaginations in West Germany’s 1968 and Beyond Anna von der Goltz Conclusion: Democracy in the Streets, Social Change in the Countryside: Grassroots Struggles, Solidarity Work, and Political Power after ’68 Stephen Milder
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“A volume on social movements in the 1970s and 1980s is very welcome and timely. Now that there exists a solid corpus of monographs on the Long Sixties, serious research on the 1970s is slowly beginning to see the light of day – less so on the 1980s. Thus, Rethinking Social Movements after ’68 will begin to fill a growing need.” • Gerd-Rainer Horn, Sciences Po
Author Information
Stephen Milder is Assistant Professor of European Politics and Society at the University of Groningen and Research Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich. He is the author of Greening Democracy: The Anti-Nuclear Movement in West Germany and Beyond, 1968-1983 (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
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