1st Edition
Beyond Transnationalism Mapping the Spatial Contours of Political Activism in Europe’s Long 1970s
Introduction: Imagined transnationalism? Mapping transnational spaces of political activism in Europe’s long 1970s
Sonja Levsen and Kiran Klaus Patel
1. Signal strength excellent in West Germany: Radio Tirana, European Maoist internationalism and its disintegration in the global seventies
David Spreen
2. Ambiguities of transnationalism: Social opposition to the civil use of nuclear power in the United Kingdom and in West Germany during the 1970s
Eva Oberloskamp
3. Seeking inclusion through redefining expertise: The changing spatial contours of disability activism in the long 1970s
Monika Baar
4. Rebel code? The transnational imaginary of ‘armed struggle’ in the fall of Southern European dictatorships
Kostis Kornetis
5. Aidland in South Asia: Humanitarian crisis and the contours of the global aid industry in the long 1970s
Kevin O’Sullivan
6. ‘From Brest to Bucharest’: Neofascist transnational networks during the long 1970s
Pablo del Hierro
7. The spatial contours of transnational activism: Conceptual implications and the road forward
Kiran Klaus Patel and Sonja Levsen
Biography
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.
