"Where do we go from Wyhl?" Transnational anti-nuclear protest targeting European and international organizations in the 1970s

Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

"While the site occupation at Wyhl in 1975 is usually considered the symbolic birthplace of the West German anti-nuclear movement, it may also serve as the starting point for a transnational history of anti-nuclear protest. Local cross-border cooperation among protesters at Wyhl deeply impressed those anti-nuclear activists in the mid-1970s who considered nuclear power a global problem and encouraged them to take their protest to the international level. The central argument of this article is that protest directed against international organizations (IOs) - notably the European Communities (EC) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) provided a crucial catalyst for transnational cooperation among anti-nuclear activists. Targeting IOs as the key promoters of nuclear power on a global scale, anti-nuclear activists cooperated across borders organizing protest events. Their goal was to challenge the IOs and win back the public on the issue across borders. Based on multi-archival research, this article analyzes five transnational protest events between 1975 and 1978 in Western Europe. Findings suggest that continued cooperation led to the emergence of a transnational anti-nuclear network and facilitated transnational transfers of scientific expertise and protest practices." (author's abstract)

Angaben zum Objekt

• Weitere Titel: "Wyhl und was nun?“ Transnationaler Protest gegen die Atompolitik europäischer und internationaler Organisationen in den 1970er Jahren
• ISSN: 0172-6404
• Umfang: Seite(n): 212-235
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anmerkungen: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Historical Social Research, 39(1)

Klassifikation und Themen

• Thema: Politikwissenschaft ; Geschichte ; Sozialgeschichte, historische Sozialforschung ; politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur ; Transnationalisierung ; internationale Organisation ; Energiepolitik ; Anti-Atom-Bewegung ; Protestbewegung ; EG ; Kernenergie ; Umweltschutz ; Westeuropa ; deskriptive Studie ; historisch

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Meyer, Jan-Henrik
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wo): Deutschland
• (wann): 2014

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.39.2014.1.212-235
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-383932
• Rechteinformation: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 21.06.2024, 16:27 MESZ