American Anti-Nuclear Activism, 1975-1990: The Challenge of Peace

ISBN-13: 9781349492510 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 234 str.

K. Harvey

Opis

Looking at national peace organizations alongside lesser-known protest collectives, this book argues that anti-nuclear activists encountered familiar challenges common to other social movements of the late twentieth century.

Spis treści

Introduction: Dynamics of Anti-Nuclear Activism in the Second Cold War 1. Anti-Nuclear Coalitions: Pacifism, Radical Action, and a Rising Atomic Threat 2. Building a Mainstream Movement: Advertising, Publicity, and Image 3. Personal Politics: Radical Feminism, Difference, and Anti-Nuclear Activism 4. Prayer or Protest? Fasting, Nonviolence, and Anti-Nuclear Activism in the 1980s 5. Activism in the Heartland: Local Identities, Community, and 'The Day After,' in Lawrence, Kansas 6. Lifestyle Politics and Participatory Democracy: Communicating Peace across the United States on the Great Peace March Epilogue

O autorze

Kyle Harvey is based at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He was the 2013 C.H. Currey Memorial Fellow at the State Library of New South Wales.