Book ID: CBB696749082

Greening Democracy: The Anti-Nuclear Movement and Political Environmentalism in West Germany and Beyond, 1968-1983 (2017)

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Milder, Stephen (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 296
Language: English

Greening Democracy explains how nuclear energy became a seminal political issue and motivated new democratic engagement in West Germany during the 1970s. Using interviews, as well as the archives of environmental organizations and the Green party, the book traces the development of anti-nuclear protest from the grassroots to parliaments. It argues that worries about specific nuclear reactors became the basis for a widespread anti-nuclear movement only after government officials' unrelenting support for nuclear energy caused reactor opponents to become concerned about the state of their democracy. Surprisingly, many citizens thought transnationally, looking abroad for protest strategies, cooperating with activists in other countries, and conceiving of 'Europe' as a potential means of circumventing recalcitrant officials. At this nexus between local action and global thinking, anti-nuclear protest became the basis for citizens' increasing engagement in self-governance, expanding their conception of democracy well beyond electoral politics and helping to make quotidian personal concerns political.

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Authors & Contributors
Tompkins, Andrew S.
Astrid Mignon Kirchhof
William W. Buzbee
Harald Engler
Dennis Romberg
Spears, Ellen Griffith
Concepts
Environmentalism
Technology and politics
Social movements
Political activists and activism
Nuclear industry
Technology and society
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
19th century
18th century
17th century
Places
United States
West Germany
Germany
Eastern Europe
New York City (New York, U.S.)
Spain
Institutions
Friends of the Earth
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Tennessee Valley Authority
Sierra Club
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