Making sense of the Americas : how protest related to America in the 1980s and beyond / Jan Hansen, Christian Helm, Frank Reichherzer (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hansen, Jan, 1983- editor.

Helm, Christian, editor.

Reichherzer, Frank, editor.

Series:

Eigene und fremde Welten ; Bd. 33.

Eigene und fremde Welten ; volume 33

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Protest movements--America--History--20th century.

Protest movements.

History.

America.

Genre:

History.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

357 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Distribution:

Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press.

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt ; New York : Campus Verlag, [2015]

Summary:

From anti-Reagan riots in West Berlin to pictures of revolutionary Nicaragua, it is often impossible to grasp social protest movements in the 1980s without referring to how thy imagined "the Americas". This edited volume is aimed at historicizing the representations of the United States and of Latin America among West European protesters around that decade. By researching dominant Interpretation patterns, practices and symbols within these movements, this book offers a fresh and compelling look at protest in the second half of the 20th century. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Foundations

Transatlantic Flows and Complex Entanglements of Protest in the 1980s. Introduction / Jan Hansen Hansen, Jan, Christian Helm Helm, Christian, Frank Reichherzer Reichherzer, Frank 13

Views from the South: Latin American Roots of Anti-Imperialism and Anti-Yankeeism / Christine Hatzky Hatzky, Christine 31

II Looking Northward

"European women push for awareness" Images, Construals and Activities / Anne Bieschke Bieschke, Anne 55

"one world - one struggle - one enemy" The Occupation of the Amerikahaus in West-Berlin, 1980 / Vojin Saša Vukadinovic Vukadinovic, Vojin Saša 71

"Pacifism does not ensure Peace" Explaining the Low Profile of the French Pacifist Movement / Ilaria Parisi Parisi, Ilaria 89

The Italian Communists' Protest against US Foreign Policy from Nixon to Reagan / Valentine Lomellini Lomellini, Valentine 109

III Looking Southward

The Swedish-Chile an Society: Fascist Solidarity with Pinochet's Chile in Sweden / Fernando Camacho Padilla Padilla, Fernando Camacho 131

Globalizing Nicaragua? An Entangled History of Sandinista Solidarity Movements in Western Europe / Kim Christiaens Christiaens, Kim 151

Between Solidarity and Emancipation? Female Solidarity and Nicaraguan Revolutionary Feminism / Friederike Apelt Apelt, Friederike 175

Guns, Doves and Utopia: Cartoons and Posters in West German Nicaragua Solidarity / Christian Helm Helm, Christian 197

IV Looking Beyond

The Promise of Internationalism: US Anti-Nuclear Activism and the European Challenge / Kyle Harvey Harvey, Kyle 225

An "Other American" Petra Kelly and the Power of Green Politics in the United States / Stephen Milder Milder, Stephen 245

The Transatlantic Drift and the Reinvention of Europe: West German Labor Unions' Perception of America / Jasper M. Trautsch Trautsch, Jasper M. 267

Dissociation and Cooperation: Willy Brandt, the United States and the New Social Movements / Judith Michel Michel, Judith 293

Victor over American Imperialism? The "Heroine of Socialism" Angela Davis in East Berlin / Kristina Kütt Kütt, Kristina 311

The Blazing Continent: Latin American Folklore and Romanticism in the Soviet Union / Tobias Rupprecht Rupprecht, Tobias 333.

Notes:

"This edited volume, which is the result of a workshop held at Humboldt University Berlin in May 2013" -- Acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783593504803

3593504804

OCLC:

929457117

Publisher Number:

99968014208