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Global protest against nuclear power: transfer and transnational exchange in the 1970s and 1980s
Globaler Protest gegen Atomkraft: Transfer und transnationaler Austausch in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren
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Abstract "Protest against nuclear power plants, uranium mining and nuclear testing played a pivotal role in the rise of a mass environmental movement around the globe in the 1970s and 1980s. Nevertheless, the history of anti-nuclear activism has largely been told from a strictly national perspective. This HS... view more
"Protest against nuclear power plants, uranium mining and nuclear testing played a pivotal role in the rise of a mass environmental movement around the globe in the 1970s and 1980s. Nevertheless, the history of anti-nuclear activism has largely been told from a strictly national perspective. This HSR focus approaches the phenomenon from a transnational perspective for the first time. Against the backdrop of the debate on transnational history, this article develops a framework of analysis, and contextualizes anti-nuclear protest in a broader postwar perspective. The contributions show that anti-nuclear movements across the globe were transnationally connected. First, scientific expertise and protest practices were transferred between movements, and subsequently adapted to local requirements. Secondly, transnational cooperation and networks did indeed emerge, playing an important role in taking protest to the international and European level. However, as opposed to contemporary rhetoric of grass-roots transnational solidarity, such cooperation was limited to a small, highly skilled and committed group of mediators - often semi-professional activists - who managed to overcome the obstacles of distance and cultural differences and had access to the necessary resources." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
international cooperation; cultural factors; antinuclear movement; Europe; North America; nuclear power plant; Pacific Rim; nuclear energy; protest movement; Australia; environmental protection; United States of America
Classification
Ecology, Environment
Social History, Historical Social Research
Method
descriptive study; historical
Free Keywords
transnational history
Document language
English
Publication Year
2014
Page/Pages
p. 165-190
Journal
Historical Social Research, 39 (2014) 1
Issue topic
Global protest against nuclear power
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.39.2014.1.165-190
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed