Beyond Transnationalism

Sonja Levsen is Professor of History at the University of Trier. Her research focuses on the cultural and social history of twentieth-century Europe in transnational and comparative perspectives, with special attention to British, French and German history. She has published on political culture in interwar Britain and Germany, on youth in post-1945 Europe, on the history of democracy after 1945 and on the transformation processes of French and German societies after the Second World War, with special focus on education. Kiran Klaus Patel is Professor of History at Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich and founding director of LMU’s Project House Europe, a research centre on Europe’s contemporary history. His research focuses on transnational and global approaches to history and empirically on nineteenth- and twentieth-century US American and European history.

Introduction: Imagined transnationalism? Mapping transnational spaces of political activism in Europe’s long 1970s 1. Signal strength excellent in West Germany: Radio Tirana, European Maoist internationalism and its disintegration in the global seventies 2. Ambiguities of transnationalism: Social opposition to the civil use of nuclear power in the United Kingdom and in West Germany during the 1970s 3. Seeking inclusion through redefining expertise: The changing spatial contours of disability activism in the long 1970s 4. Rebel code? The transnational imaginary of ‘armed struggle’ in the fall of Southern European dictatorships 5. Aidland in South Asia: Humanitarian crisis and the contours of the global aid industry in the long 1970s 6. ‘From Brest to Bucharest’: Neofascist transnational networks during the long 1970s 7. The spatial contours of transnational activism: Conceptual implications and the road forward