Stephen Milder
Biographic Data
| ID | 1247086 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Milder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Milder |
| SIGNATURE | MILDER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5650-4003 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Zero Growth, Socialist Modernity, and the Anti-Environmental Turn in Eastern Europe
From Tinkerers to Consultants: Individual Engagement, Reunification and the Making of Germany’s Renewable Energy Sector
The article seeks to explain how and why reunified Germany saw a hundred-fold increase in its installed wind energy capacity during the 1990s. It argues that the development was largely due to private individuals’ practical work to solve local energy supply problems with wind power, and their later efforts to make renewable energy generation a worthwhile investment. The article begins by contrasting the East and West German governments’ understan…
Environmental History and the End of History
From ‘Grey Democracy’ to the ‘Green New Deal’: Post-war Democracy and the Hegemonic Imaginary of Material Politics in Western Europe
A Struggle to Remake the Market: Feed-in Rates and Alternative Energy in 1980s West Germany
Drawing on government documents as well as the papers of renewable energy advocates, this article looks at debates over alternative energy in West Germany during the 1980s. It shows that because West Germany's monopolistic electricity market was dominated by utilities companies reticent to invest in alternatives, struggles over access to the electric grid and the rates independent producers received for their electricity were essential to efforts…
Re-Interpreting West Germany’s Ecological Revolution: Environmental Politics, Grassroots Activism, and Democracy in the Long 1970s
In looking at the ways in which the relationship between environmental matters and the political developed and changed in West Germany during the long 1970s, this article re-interprets the ‘ecological revolution’ that occurred at that time and rethinks the trajectory of German environmentalism. To get at the politicization of environmental concerns in the 1970s, the article compares two narratives: the ‘technocratic invention’ of environmental po…
Ausgestrahlt: Die mediale Debatte um “Tschernobyl” in der Bundesrepublik und in Frankreich, 1986/87
Taking on Technocracy: Nuclear Power in Germany, 1945 to the Present
Die Versicherung der Atomgefahr: Risikopolitik, Sicherheitsproduktion und Expertise in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und den USA, 1945–1986
Christoph Wehner’s 2017 book, Die Versicherung der Atomgefahr, may appear dry and technical at first glance. Over the course of some 400 pages, Wehner carefully describes debates about the provision of insurance for reactors in the West German parliament, within the insurance industry, and in society at large. But in looking at this technical topic, Wehner’s book, which is a slightly shortened version of his Bochum doctoral dissertation, aims at …
Behinderte Anerkennung? Interessenorganisationen von Menschen mit Behinderungen in Westdeutschland seit 1945
Behinderte Anerkennung explores the history of ‘interest organizations for people with disabilities’ in West Germany. The book is a shortened version of Jan Stoll’s doctoral dissertation, written at the University of Kiel as part of a DFG-funded project on ‘The History of People with Disabilities since 1945’. Relying primarily on interest organization publications and government documents, Stoll pieces together the histories of a variety of organ…
Greening Democracy: The Anti-Nuclear Movement and Political Environmentalism in West Germany and Beyond, 1968–1983
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…
Between Grassroots Protest and Green Politics: The Democratic Potential of the 1970s Antinuclear Activisim
This article narrates the development of the antinuclear movement from the bottom up, showing how local protests initiated changes in Germans' ideas about democracy and public participation, precipitating the Green Party's emergence. The narrative begins with the pre-history of the 1975 occupation of the Wyhl reactor site in Southern Baden. It shows that vintners' concerns about the future of their livelihoods underpinned protests at Wyhl, but ar…
Renewing Democracy: The Rise of Green Politics in West Germany
The September 2013 Bundestag election, which reelected Angela Merkelas chancellor, was a clear defeat for the Green Party. Alliance 90/TheGreens (henceforth the Greens) fared far better than the Free DemocraticParty (FDP), which failed even to score the five percent of the vote requiredfor representation in parliament, but still fell from 10.7 percent to 8.4 percent,losing five of their sixty-eight seats in parliament. Since in March ofthat same …
Varieties of Feminism: German Gender Politics in Global Perspective
Journal Article Varieties of Feminism: German Gender Politics in Global Perspective Get access Varieties of Feminism: German Gender Politics in Global Perspective. By Myra Marx Ferree. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2012. xvi + 302 pp. $85.00/24.95 (hardback/paperback). Stephen Milder Stephen Milder University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 31,…
Thinking Globally, Acting (Trans-)Locally: Petra Kelly and the Transnational Roots of West German Green Politics
Thousands of demonstrators crowded Trafalgar Square on a chilly April afternoon in 1978 to protest the planned expansion of nuclear fuel reprocessing operations at the Windscale Reactor in rural Cumbria. Toward the end of the rally, a young woman faced the mass of protestors from behind the podium. “I am here to bring you greetings of solidarity from the various European, Australian, and Japanese anti-nuclear movements,” she announced. She explai…
Thinking Globally, Acting (Trans-)Locally: Petra Kelly and the Transnational Roots of West German Green Politics
Thousands of demonstrators crowded Trafalgar Square on a chilly April afternoon in 1978 to protest the planned expansion of nuclear fuel reprocessing operations at the Windscale Reactor in rural Cumbria. Toward the end of the rally, a young woman faced the mass of protestors from behind the podium. “I am here to bring you greetings of solidarity from the various European, Australian, and Japanese anti-nuclear movements,” she announced. She explai…
Between Grassroots Protest and Green Politics: The Democratic Potential of the 1970s Antinuclear Activisim
This article narrates the development of the antinuclear movement from the bottom up, showing how local protests initiated changes in Germans' ideas about democracy and public participation, precipitating the Green Party's emergence. The narrative begins with the pre-history of the 1975 occupation of the Wyhl reactor site in Southern Baden. It shows that vintners' concerns about the future of their livelihoods underpinned protests at Wyhl, but ar…
From ‘Grey Democracy’ to the ‘Green New Deal’: Post-war Democracy and the Hegemonic Imaginary of Material Politics in Western Europe
Thinking Globally, Acting (Trans-)Locally: Petra Kelly and the Transnational Roots of West German Green Politics
Thousands of demonstrators crowded Trafalgar Square on a chilly April afternoon in 1978 to protest the planned expansion of nuclear fuel reprocessing operations at the Windscale Reactor in rural Cumbria. Toward the end of the rally, a young woman faced the mass of protestors from behind the podium. “I am here to bring you greetings of solidarity from the various European, Australian, and Japanese anti-nuclear movements,” she announced. She explai…
Varieties of Feminism: German Gender Politics in Global Perspective
Journal Article Varieties of Feminism: German Gender Politics in Global Perspective Get access Varieties of Feminism: German Gender Politics in Global Perspective. By Myra Marx Ferree. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2012. xvi + 302 pp. $85.00/24.95 (hardback/paperback). Stephen Milder Stephen Milder University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 31,…
Between Grassroots Protest and Green Politics: The Democratic Potential of the 1970s Antinuclear Activisim
This article narrates the development of the antinuclear movement from the bottom up, showing how local protests initiated changes in Germans' ideas about democracy and public participation, precipitating the Green Party's emergence. The narrative begins with the pre-history of the 1975 occupation of the Wyhl reactor site in Southern Baden. It shows that vintners' concerns about the future of their livelihoods underpinned protests at Wyhl, but ar…
Renewing Democracy: The Rise of Green Politics in West Germany
The September 2013 Bundestag election, which reelected Angela Merkelas chancellor, was a clear defeat for the Green Party. Alliance 90/TheGreens (henceforth the Greens) fared far better than the Free DemocraticParty (FDP), which failed even to score the five percent of the vote requiredfor representation in parliament, but still fell from 10.7 percent to 8.4 percent,losing five of their sixty-eight seats in parliament. Since in March ofthat same …
Greening Democracy: The Anti-Nuclear Movement and Political Environmentalism in West Germany and Beyond, 1968–1983
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…
Die Versicherung der Atomgefahr: Risikopolitik, Sicherheitsproduktion und Expertise in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und den USA, 1945–1986
Christoph Wehner’s 2017 book, Die Versicherung der Atomgefahr, may appear dry and technical at first glance. Over the course of some 400 pages, Wehner carefully describes debates about the provision of insurance for reactors in the West German parliament, within the insurance industry, and in society at large. But in looking at this technical topic, Wehner’s book, which is a slightly shortened version of his Bochum doctoral dissertation, aims at …
Behinderte Anerkennung? Interessenorganisationen von Menschen mit Behinderungen in Westdeutschland seit 1945
Behinderte Anerkennung explores the history of ‘interest organizations for people with disabilities’ in West Germany. The book is a shortened version of Jan Stoll’s doctoral dissertation, written at the University of Kiel as part of a DFG-funded project on ‘The History of People with Disabilities since 1945’. Relying primarily on interest organization publications and government documents, Stoll pieces together the histories of a variety of organ…
Ausgestrahlt: Die mediale Debatte um “Tschernobyl” in der Bundesrepublik und in Frankreich, 1986/87
Taking on Technocracy: Nuclear Power in Germany, 1945 to the Present
From ‘Grey Democracy’ to the ‘Green New Deal’: Post-war Democracy and the Hegemonic Imaginary of Material Politics in Western Europe
A Struggle to Remake the Market: Feed-in Rates and Alternative Energy in 1980s West Germany
Drawing on government documents as well as the papers of renewable energy advocates, this article looks at debates over alternative energy in West Germany during the 1980s. It shows that because West Germany's monopolistic electricity market was dominated by utilities companies reticent to invest in alternatives, struggles over access to the electric grid and the rates independent producers received for their electricity were essential to efforts…
Re-Interpreting West Germany’s Ecological Revolution: Environmental Politics, Grassroots Activism, and Democracy in the Long 1970s
In looking at the ways in which the relationship between environmental matters and the political developed and changed in West Germany during the long 1970s, this article re-interprets the ‘ecological revolution’ that occurred at that time and rethinks the trajectory of German environmentalism. To get at the politicization of environmental concerns in the 1970s, the article compares two narratives: the ‘technocratic invention’ of environmental po…
From Tinkerers to Consultants: Individual Engagement, Reunification and the Making of Germany’s Renewable Energy Sector
The article seeks to explain how and why reunified Germany saw a hundred-fold increase in its installed wind energy capacity during the 1990s. It argues that the development was largely due to private individuals’ practical work to solve local energy supply problems with wind power, and their later efforts to make renewable energy generation a worthwhile investment. The article begins by contrasting the East and West German governments’ understan…
Environmental History and the End of History
Zero Growth, Socialist Modernity, and the Anti-Environmental Turn in Eastern Europe
Political science (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Communism, Protests, Social Movements (9 works) · European history and politics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Democracy (5 works) · German (5 works) · History (5 works)