Contents

Chapters in this book

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