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).

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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