Protest Beyond Borders Contentious Politics in Europe since 1945 [Paperback]

The protest movements that followed the Second World War have recently become the object of study for various disciplines; however, the exchange of ideas between research fields, and comparative research in general, is lacking. An international and interdisciplinary dialogue is vital to not only describe the similarities and differences between the single national movements but also to evaluate how they contributed to the formation and evolution of a transnational civil society in Europe. This volume undertakes this challenge as well as questions some major assumptions of post-1945 protest and social mobilization both in Western and Eastern Europe. Historians, political scientists, sociologists and media studies scholars come together and offer insights into social movement research beyond conventional repertoires of protest and strictly defined periods, borders and paradigms, offering new perspectives on past and present processes of social change of the contemporary world.

List of Figures
Preface
Kathrin Fahlenbrach,Martin KlimkeandJoachim Scharloth

Introduction:Transnational Approaches to Social Mobilization in Europe since 1945. An Introduction
Hara KoukiandEduardo Romanos

PART I: TRANSNATIONAL DIMENSIONS OF PROTEST IN COLD WAR EUROPE

Chapter 1.Extraparliamentary Entanglements: Framing Peace in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1974
Andrew Oppenheimer

Chapter 2.The Prague Spring and the Gypsy Question: A Transnational Challenge to the Socialist State
Celia Donert

Chapter 3.Human Rights as a Transnational Vocabulary of Protest: Campaigning against the Political Abuse of Psychiatry in the Soviet Union
Hara Kouki

PART II: CONTENTIOUS POLITICS IN A NEW ERA OF TRANSNATIONALISM

Chapter 4.Stairway to Heaven or Highway to Hell? Ambivalent Europeanization and Civil Society in CentralC1