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Chapter 7. Radical Change Close to Home: Transforming the Self and Relations in West German Alternative Politics
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- List of Abbreviations viii
- Introduction. Social Movements after ’68: Histories, Selves, Solidarities 1
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Part I. Working with—and against—the Past
- Chapter 1. Leaving the Borderlands … but for Where? 1968 and the New Registers of Political Feeling 23
- Chapter 2. Conceptions of Democracy and West German New Social Movement Activism 46
- Chapter 3. New Social Movements and the New Role of the Intellectual: From the “’68ers’” Critique (of the Intellectual) to (the Typus of ) the “Specific Intellectual” 67
- Chapter 4. Fighting with Feelings: Experiences of Protest and Emotional Practices in the Autonomous West German Women’s Movement during the 1970s and 1980s 88
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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 111
- Chapter 6. Running Over Trees in Germany: Social Movements and the US Army, 1975–85 133
- Chapter 7. Radical Change Close to Home: Transforming the Self and Relations in West German Alternative Politics 153
- Chapter 8. Changing the World for the Better: Women Activists’ Redefinitions of Identities, Relationships, and Society 173
- Chapter 9. From Self-Organization to Self-Management: Paradigms of Social Movements in West Germany from ’68 to the Early 1980s 193
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Part III. “Learn to Live in Solidarity”
- Chapter 10. The Gay Movement in 1970s West Germany: Liberation in Its Multidimensional Context 217
- Chapter 11. Radical Protest or Shadow Diplomacy? The Decolonization of Zimbabwe and West German Maoism, 1960–80 238
- Chapter 12. Supporting a Revolution: West German Nicaragua Solidarity and Its Transnational Connections with the Nicaraguan Sandinistas 259
- Chapter 13. East German Environmental Activism and the West: Connections, Common Ground, and Difference across the Iron Curtain 283
- Chapter 14. Activists Divided? Continental Imaginations in West Germany’s 1968 and Beyond 303
- Conclusion. Democracy in the Streets, Social Change in the Countryside: Grassroots Struggles, Solidarity Work, and Political Power after ’68 324
- Index 338
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- List of Abbreviations viii
- Introduction. Social Movements after ’68: Histories, Selves, Solidarities 1
-
Part I. Working with—and against—the Past
- Chapter 1. Leaving the Borderlands … but for Where? 1968 and the New Registers of Political Feeling 23
- Chapter 2. Conceptions of Democracy and West German New Social Movement Activism 46
- Chapter 3. New Social Movements and the New Role of the Intellectual: From the “’68ers’” Critique (of the Intellectual) to (the Typus of ) the “Specific Intellectual” 67
- Chapter 4. Fighting with Feelings: Experiences of Protest and Emotional Practices in the Autonomous West German Women’s Movement during the 1970s and 1980s 88
-
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 111
- Chapter 6. Running Over Trees in Germany: Social Movements and the US Army, 1975–85 133
- Chapter 7. Radical Change Close to Home: Transforming the Self and Relations in West German Alternative Politics 153
- Chapter 8. Changing the World for the Better: Women Activists’ Redefinitions of Identities, Relationships, and Society 173
- Chapter 9. From Self-Organization to Self-Management: Paradigms of Social Movements in West Germany from ’68 to the Early 1980s 193
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Part III. “Learn to Live in Solidarity”
- Chapter 10. The Gay Movement in 1970s West Germany: Liberation in Its Multidimensional Context 217
- Chapter 11. Radical Protest or Shadow Diplomacy? The Decolonization of Zimbabwe and West German Maoism, 1960–80 238
- Chapter 12. Supporting a Revolution: West German Nicaragua Solidarity and Its Transnational Connections with the Nicaraguan Sandinistas 259
- Chapter 13. East German Environmental Activism and the West: Connections, Common Ground, and Difference across the Iron Curtain 283
- Chapter 14. Activists Divided? Continental Imaginations in West Germany’s 1968 and Beyond 303
- Conclusion. Democracy in the Streets, Social Change in the Countryside: Grassroots Struggles, Solidarity Work, and Political Power after ’68 324
- Index 338