Rethinking Social Movements After '68

Belinda Davis is Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is author or co-editor of five books, including Changing the World, Changing Oneself: Political Protest and Transnational Identities in 1960s/70s, West Germany and the U.S. (Berghahn Books, 2010) (co-edited with M. Klimke, C. MacDougall, and W. Mausbach); and The Inner Life of Politics: Extraparliamentary Opposition in West Germany, 1962-1983 (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

“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

• List of FiguresList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Social Movements after ’68:  Histories, Selves, SolidaritiesStephen Milder, Belinda Davis, and Friederike BrühöfenerPart I: Working with—and against—the pastChapter 1. Leaving the borderlands … but for where? 1968 and the New Registers of Political FeelingGeoff EleyChapter 2. Conceptions of Democracy and West German New Social Movement ActivismMichael HughesChapter 3. New Social Movements and the New Role of the Intellectual: From the “’68ers” Critique to the “Specific Intellectual”Ingrid Gilcher-HolteyChapter 4. Fighting with feelings: Experiences of Protest and Emotional Practices in the Autonomous West German Women’s Movement during the 1970s and 1980sBernhard GottoPart 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 MovementsFreia AndersChapter 6. Running Over Trees in Germany: Social Movements and the US Army, 1975-1985Adam SeippChapter 7. Radical Change Close to Home:  Transforming the Self and Relations in West German Alternative PoliticsBelinda DavisChapter 8. Changing the World for the Better: Women Activists’ Redefinitions of Identities, Relationships, and SocietyFriederike BrühöfenerChapter 9. From Self-Organization to Self-Management: Paradigms of Social Movements in West Germany from ‘68 to the early 1980sDavid TemplinPart III: “Learn to live in solidarity”Chapter 10. The Gay Movement in 1970s West Germany: Liberation in its Multi-dimensional ContextCraig GriffithsChapter 11. Radical Protest or Shadow Diplomacy? The Decolonization of Zimbabwe and West German Maoism, 1960-1980David SpreenChapter 12. Supporting a Revolution: West German Nicaragua Solidarity and its transnational connections with the Nicaraguan SandinistasChristian HelmChapter 13. East German Environmental Activism and the West: Connections, Common Ground, and Difference across the Iron CurtainJulia AultChapter 14. Activists Divided?  Continental Imaginations in West Germany’s 1968 and BeyondAnna von der GoltzConclusion: Democracy in the Streets, Social Change in the Countryside: Grassroots Struggles, Solidarity Work, and Political Power after ’68Stephen Milder