Protest in the Vietnam War Era (eBook)

This book assesses the emergence and transformation of global protest movements during the Vietnam War era. It explores the relationship between protest focused on the war and other emancipatory and revolutionary struggles, moving beyond existing scholarship to examine the myriad interlinked protest issues and mobilisations around the globe during the Indochina Wars. Bringing together scholars working from a range of geographical, historiographical and methodological perspectives, the volume offers a new framework for understanding the history of wartime protest. The chapters are organised around the social movements from the three main geopolitical regions of the world during the 1960s and early 1970s: the core capitalist countries of the so-called first world, the socialist bloc and the Global South. The final section of the book then focuses on international organisations that explicitly sought to bridge and unite solidarity and protest around the world. In an era of persistent military conflict, the book provides timely contributions to the question of what war does to protest movements and what protest movements do to war.

Alexander Sedlmaier is Reader in Modern History at Bangor University, UK, and Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellow at the Institute for Social Movements at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. He works on contemporary German, European and North American history and is author of Consumption and Violence: Radical Protest in Cold-War West Germany (2014).