Making Sense of the Americas, Volume 33: How Protest Related to America in the 1980s and Beyond

ISBN-13: 9783593504803 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 360 str.

Jan Hansen; Christian Helm; Frank Reichherzer

Opis

From anti-Reagan riots in West Berlin to pictures of revolutionary Nicaragua, it is impossible to examine global social protest movements of the 1970s and '80s without addressing how these movements imagined the Americas. By examining historical representations of the United States and Latin America among Western European protesters and how these symbols were utilized by these movements, this book offers a fresh and compelling look at protest in the second half of the twentieth century. Contributions focus primarily on the anti-Euromissile peace protests and the solidarity movement with Latin America to shed light both on how European protestors built networks with the Americas and how American activists conceived of Europe and European protest. Looking east to west, north to south, this book reveals that we cannot understand the groundswell of 1980s protest movements in Europe without unraveling European representations of the Americas.

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Contents

Acknowledgments 9

I. Foundations

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

Views from the South - Latin American Roots of Anti-Imperialism and Anti-Yankeeism 31 (Christine Hatzky)


II. Looking Northward
"European women push for awareness" - Images, Construals and Activities 5 (Anne Bieschke)

"one world - one struggle - one enemy": The Occupation of the Amerikahaus in West-Berlin, 1980 (Vojin Sasa Vukadinovi?)

"Pacifism does not ensure Peace" -Explaining the Low Profile of the French Pacifist Movement 89 (Ilaria Parisi)

The Italian Communists' Protest against US Foreign Policy - from Nixon to Reagan 109 (Valentine Lomellini)


III. Looking Southward

The Swedish-Chilean Society - Fascist Solidarity with Pinochet's Chile in Sweden 131 (Fernando Camacho Padilla)

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

Between Solidarity and Emancipation? Female Solidarity and Nicaraguan Revolutionary Feminism 175
(Friederike Apelt)

Guns, Doves and Utopia - Cartoons and Posters in West German Nicaragua Solidarity 197 (Christian Helm)


IV. Looking Beyond

The Promise of Internationalism - US Anti-Nuclear Activism and the European Challenge 225 (Kyle Harvey)

An "Other American" - Petra Kelly and the Power of Green Politics in the United States 245 (Stephen Milder)

The Transatlantic Drift and the Reinvention of Europe - West German Labor Unions' Perception of America 267 (Jasper M. Trautsch)
Dissociation and Cooperation - Willy Brandt, the United States and the New Social Movements 293 (Judith Michel)

Victory over American Imperialism? The "Heroine of Socialism" Angela Davis in East Berlin 311 (Kristina Kütt)

The Blazing Continent - Latin American Folklore and Romanticism in the Soviet Union 333 (Tobias Rupprecht)

Notes on Contributors 355

O autorze

Jan Hansen ist wiss. Mitarbeiter an der HU Berlin. Christian Helm ist wiss. Mitarbeiter an der Universität Hannover. Frank Reichherzer ist wiss. Mitarbeiter am ZMSBw in Potsdam.