Description
Book Synopsis The protest movements that followed the Second World War have recently become the object of study for various disciplines; however, the exchange of ideas between research fields, and comparative research in general, is lacking. An international and interdisciplinary dialogue is vital to not only describe the similarities and differences between the single national movements but also to evaluate how they contributed to the formation and evolution of a transnational civil society in Europe. This volume undertakes this challenge as well as questions some major assumptions of post-1945 protest and social mobilization both in Western and Eastern Europe. Historians, political scientists, sociologists and media studies scholars come together and offer insights into social movement research beyond conventional repertoires of protest and strictly defined periods, borders and paradigms, offering new perspectives on past and present processes of social change of the contemporary world.
Trade Review “This is a wide ranging and informative study…The essays are well presented [and], intrinsically interesting.” · Ruth Kinna, Loughborough University
“The mixture of historical and contemporary accounts and perspectives constitutes an original and much needed approach to the study of social movements.” · Peo Hansen, Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO) at Linköping University, Sweden
Table of Contents List of Figures
Preface
Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Martin Klimke and Joachim Scharloth
Introduction: Transnational Approaches to Social Mobilization in Europe since 1945. An Introduction
Hara Kouki and Eduardo Romanos
PART I: TRANSNATIONAL DIMENSIONS OF PROTEST IN COLD WAR EUROPE
Chapter 1. Extraparliamentary Entanglements: Framing Peace in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1974
Andrew Oppenheimer
Chapter 2. The Prague Spring and the ‘Gypsy Question’: A Transnational Challenge to the Socialist State
Celia Donert
Chapter 3. Human Rights as a Transnational Vocabulary of Protest: Campaigning against the Political Abuse of Psychiatry in the Soviet Union
Hara Kouki
PART II: CONTENTIOUS POLITICS IN A NEW ERA OF TRANSNATIONALISM
Chapter 4. Stairway to Heaven or Highway to Hell? Ambivalent Europeanization and Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe
Aron Buzogány
Chapter 5. Communicating Dissent. Diversity of Expression in the Protest against the G8 Summit in Heiligendamm
Simon Teune
Chapter 6. Digitalized Anti-corporate Campaigns: Towards a New Era of Transnational Protest?
Johanna Niesyto
PART III: BROADENING THEORETICAL APPROACHES
Chapter 7. Processes of Dynamic Social Movement Development. From ‘British Rights for British Citizens’ to ‘British Out’: The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement, 1960s-1972
Lorenzo Bosi
Chapter 8. Anarchism, Franco’s Dictatorship and Postwar Europe: High-risk Mobilization and Ideological Change
Eduardo Romanos
Chapter 9. Organizational Communication of Intermediaries in Flux: An Analytical Framework
Dominik Lachenmeier
PART IV: OUTLOOK FOR RESEARCH
Chapter 10. The Role of Dissident-Intellectuals in the Formation of Civil Society in (Post)Communist East-Central Europe
Mariya Ivancheva
Chapter 11. Globalization and the Transformation of National Protest Politics: An Appetizer
Swen Hutter
Afterword: Social Movement Studies and Transnationalization: An Uneasy Relation or a Happy Start? An Afterword
Donatella Della Porta
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
