Protest movements in 1960s West Germany: a social history of dissent and democracy

2003 ◽  
Vol 41 (04) ◽  
pp. 41-2419-41-2419
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
History Of

Book Reviews

2004 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 107-133
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Social History ◽  
West Germany ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
Everyday Objects ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Ann Arbor ◽  
History Of

Kenneth Dyson and Klaus Goetz, eds., Germany, Europe, and the Politics of Constraint (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004)Review by Craig ParsonsTodd Kontje, German Orientalisms (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004)Review by Katrin SiegPaul Betts, The Authority of Everyday Objects: A Cultural History of West German Industrial Design (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004)Review by Kathleen James-ChakrabortyNick Thomas, Protest Movements in 1960s West Germany: A Social History of Dissent and Democracy (Oxford: Berg, 2003)Review by Jeremy VaronJeannette Z. Madarász, Conflict and Compromise in East Germany, 1871-1989: A Precarious Stability (Houndmills: Palgrave MacMillan, 2003)Review by Peter C. Caldwell

National Internationalists: British and West German Protests against Nuclear Weapons, the Politics of Transnational Communications and the Social History of the Cold War, 1957–1964

2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 559-582 ◽  
Author(s):  
HOLGER NEHRING
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Social History ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Traditions ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Cold War

This article examines the politics of communication between British and West German protesters against nuclear weapons in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The interpretation suggested here historicises the assumptions of ‘transnational history’ and shows the nationalist and internationalist dimensions of the protest movements' histories to be inextricably connected. Both movements related their own aims to global and international problems. Yet they continued to observe the world from their individual perspectives: national, regional and local forms thus remained important. By illuminating the interaction between political traditions, social developments and international relations in shaping important political movements within two European societies, this article can provide one element of a new connective social history of the cold war.

scholarly journals Violence for a Good Cause? The Role of Violent Tactics in West German Solidarity Campaigns for Better Working and Living Conditions in the Global South in the 1980s

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 566-580
Author(s):  
Katharina Karcher
Keyword(s):  
Women Workers ◽  
Global South ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Garment Factory ◽  
Fair Trade Movement ◽  
History Of ◽  
Working And Living Conditions ◽  
The Impact

AbstractTaking up Frank Trentmann's suggestion of ‘widening the historical frame’ in which we analyse the fair trade movement, this article explores the entangled history of violent and peaceful tactics in two transnational solidarity campaigns in West Germany the 1980s: the German anti-Apartheid movement and a campaign for women workers in a South Korean garment factory. Both campaigns had the aim to improve the living and working conditions of producers in the Global South and were characterised by a complex interplay of peaceful and militant tactics ranging from boycott calls to arson attacks and bombings. Although more research into the impact of violent protest is needed, the two case studies suggest that the use of violent protest tactics can contribute towards the success of protest movements if it attracts considerable media attention, the targeted companies face significant social and political pressure and the cumulative disruption costs clearly exceed the concession costs.

Black German

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodor Michael
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Second World War ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Pan Africanism ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Second World

This is the first English translation of an important document in the history of the black presence in Germany and Europe: the autobiography of Theodor Michael. Theodor Michael is the last surviving member of the first generation of ‘Afro-Germans’: Born in Germany in 1925 to a Cameroonian father and a German mother, he grew up in Berlin in the last days of the Weimar Republic. As a child and teenager he worked in circuses and films and experienced the tightening knot of racial discrimination under the Nazis in the years before the Second World War. He survived the war as a forced labourer, founding a family and making a career as a journalist and actor in post-war West Germany. Since the 1980s he has become an important spokesman for the black German consciousness movement, acting as a human link between the first black German community of the inter-war period, the pan-Africanism of the 1950s and 1960s, and new generations of Germans of African descent. His life story is a classic account of coming to consciousness of a man who understands himself as both black and German; accordingly, it illuminates key aspects of modern German social history as well as of the post-war history of the African diaspora.

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