Daniel Laqua
Biographic Data
| ID | 1689272 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Laqua |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Laqua |
| SIGNATURE | LAQUA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northumbria University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7697-5582 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Multiple Levels of Cultural Diplomacy: Weimar Germany’s Exhibition Moment, 1927–1928
This article examines the complex dynamics of cultural diplomacy through the prism of two large-scale exhibitions in Weimar Germany: the international music exhibition Musik im Leben der Völker (Frankfurt, 1927) and the international press exhibition Pressa (Cologne, 1928). Both ventures attracted substantial political backing, ample press coverage, and large numbers of visitors. As this article shows, these initiatives reflected a wider developm…
History Roundtable on US Universities and the State: Episodes from the Twentieth Century
This roundtable explores four historical episodes in the history of state–university relations in the United States. In doing so, it addresses issues that also figure prominently in present‐day debates, including questions of academic freedom and free speech, the state's role in research funding as well as the international features of higher education. Convened by the journal's editor, the roundtable features individual contributions from four h…
History in the Making: News from the Editors
In October 2024, the management of History: The Journal of the Historical Association moved to a team based at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne. This editorial outlines plans for the journal, including some that are already reflected in contributions to the present edition. Moreover, it situates this ongoing work within broader contexts, both in terms of the institutional settings for history teaching and research in the United Kingd…
Rethinking Transnational Activism through Regional Perspectives: Reflections, Literatures and Cases
This collectively authored article argues for a regional turn in the historical study of transnational activism. By considering not only pan-regional movements but also examples of borderland contexts, transregional connections and diasporic understandings of ‘region’, our discussion identifies fresh possibilities for investigating the evolution and functioning of transnational activism. Based on a Royal Historical Society-funded workshop held at…
Reflections on Activism across Borders: A Response
This essay discusses different approaches to studying transnational activism in historical perspective. In doing so, it concludes a review dossier in which several historians have commented on aspects of Daniel Laqua's book Activism across Borders since 1870: Causes, Campaigns and Conflicts in and beyond Europe (London, 2023). The author responds to the preceding pieces by addressing the contributors’ questions and arguments, while also noting ho…
The politics of transnational student mobility: Youth, education and activism in Ghana, 1957–1966
This article examines the political agendas, practical challenges and personal aspirations that informed different forms of transnational student mobility in the 1950s and 1960s. It does so by focusing on a variety of initiatives that involved Ghana during the period of Kwame Nkrumah’s rule (1957–1966). The article considers schemes that enabled Ghanaian students to attend universities in the United States and the communist bloc, but it also trac…
Youth and internationalism in the twentieth century: An introduction
This essay introduces a special issue on the complex and contradictory ways in which young activists and youth organisations have encountered and experienced internationalism. It argues for the need to pay greater attention to the ambiguous encounters – involving seemingly benevolent aims but also blind spots and prejudices – that were created by transnational youth mobilities and by young people’s participation in international ventures. We firs…
Introduction: Subversion, Dissent and Opposition in Communist Europe and Beyond
This essay introduces “Between Subversion and Opposition: Multiple Challenges to Communist Rule,” a special issue of East Central Europe . It focuses on four broader questions raised by the contributions: the different periodizations associated with communist rule; the meanings attached to different forms of subversion and dissent; the broader transnational contexts in which activists operated – including the role of contacts with activists in th…
Transnational Dimensions of a ‘German Case’: The Expatriation of Wolf Biermann and the Politics of Solidarity in the 1970s
In November 1976, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) announced the expatriation of the dissident singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann, preventing his return from a concert tour in West Germany. This step attracted widespread press coverage and sparked a substantial expression of solidarity by East German intellectuals. This article proposes an alternative perspective on this well-known episode in German history by highlighting its transnational dime…
Activism and Dissent under State Socialism: Coalitions and Campaigns in the 1970s and 1980s
This article introduces a special Labour History Review issue on the subject of 'Challenges to State Socialism in Central and Eastern Europe: Activists, Movements and Alliances in the 1970s and 1980s'. Our piece highlights different stimuli for dissent and opposition in the Eastern bloc, drawing attention to three strands that helped to inform political activism. First, it discusses the way in which various forms of dissident Marxism informed cri…
Rebuilding the Universities after the Great War: Ex‐Service Students, Scholarships and the Reconstruction of Student Life in England
This article examines a transformative moment in the history of British higher education. After the First World War, student numbers were boosted by the arrival of large numbers of ex‐servicemen. Their access to university was facilitated by the government‐funded Scheme for the Higher Education of Ex‐Service Students, which provided grants to nearly 28,000 students between 1918 and 1923. The article offers the first sustained historical analysis …
Talbot C. Imlay. The Practice of Socialist Internationalism: European Socialists and International Politics, 1914–1960
Throughout its history, the socialist movement has repeatedly professed, celebrated, and staged its internationalism. While the First and Second Internationals occupy a prominent place in the wider literature on the history of the Left, there is an understandable temptation to treat the year 1914 as something of an end point, marked by the apparent collapse in international solidarity. From such a perspective, subsequent attempts to forge transna…
Student Funding and University Access After the Great War: The Scheme for the Higher Education of Ex-Servicemen at Aberystwyth, Liverpool and Oxford
This article makes a fresh contribution to the literature on student funding and its history by drawing attention to a pioneering government initiative, launched in the aftermath of the Great War. From the winter of 1918–1919 until 1923, the Scheme for the Higher Education of Ex-Servicemen provided grants to university students in England and Wales. We argue that it amounted to a major educational reform venture: it supported students on an unpre…
The League of Nations and the Refugees from Nazi Germany: James G. McDonald and Hitler’s Victims, by Greg Burgess
In December 1935, James McDonald resigned from his position as League of Nations High Commissioner for the Refugees from Germany. McDonald’s tenure had been a short and unhappy one, lasting for just over fourteen months. He had been charged with supporting the settlement of refugees by working with governments and private organisations as well as securing appropriate funding and addressing the legal status of exiles from Germany. His resignation …
Rocking Against the Right: Political Activism and Popular Music in West Germany, 1979-1980
The article examines radical cultural politics by focusing on the West German initiative of Rock gegen Rechts (‘Rock Against the Right’). This campaign involved concerts, publications and demonstrations, most notably the staging of two large-scale festivals in Frankfurt/Main in 1979 and 1980. Rock Against Racism – launched in Britain in 1976 – served as a model for the activists. Yet Rock gegen Rechts differed from its British counterpart in sign…
Activism in the 'Students' League of Nations: International Student Politics and the Confédération Internationale des Étudiants, 1919-1939
The aftermath of the First World War saw manifold efforts to (re-)construct an international community. One striking feature of this development was the foundation of a number of international student organisations. This article analyses the largest of these organisations-the International Confederation of Students (Confédération internationale des Étudiants, CIE), using it as a prism through which to examine four major aspects of inter-war stude…
Belgian exiles, the British and the Great War: The Birtley Belgians of Elisabethville
Located in Birtley, County Durham, the gated community of Elisabethville housed several thousand Belgians from 1916 until the aftermath of the Great War. Most residents were conscripted Belgian soldiers who constituted the workforce at the nearby National Projectile Factory. This article focuses on the complex relationship between the ‘Birtley Belgians’ and their host population. It thus covers issues such as wartime charity, Anglo-Belgian leisur…
Democratic Politics and the League of Nations: The Labour and Socialist International as a Protagonist of Interwar Internationalism
The Labour and Socialist International (LSI) was a major vehicle for transnational socialist cooperation during the interwar years and thus seemed to continue the traditions of socialist internationalism. In the realm of international relations, however, it championed key tenets of liberal internationalism. The LSI supported the idea of a League of Nations and embraced the notion of a world order based upon democratic nation-states. While it crit…
Inside the Humanitarian Cloud: Causes and Motivations to Help Friends and Strangers
Inside the Humanitarian Cloud: Causes and Motivations to Help Friends and Strangers This introductory essay examines humanitarianism as both a concept and a practice. The piece discusses the tropes and ideas that sustained the construction of humanitarian causes – from compassion and solidarity to moral outrage. It subsequently focuses on strategies and mechanisms that sustained humanitarian campaigns, in particular the use of «information politi…
Freethinkers, anarchists and Francisco Ferrer: The making of a transnational solidarity campaign
This article examines the transnational solidarity campaign for Francisco Ferrer, the Catalan anarchist and educator who was sentenced to death for his alleged involvement in Barcelona's ‘Tragic Week’ of 1909. The international scale of the protests against Ferrer's execution was much remarked upon by his contemporaries. While historians have examined both the nature of demonstrations in support of Ferrer and the way in which he was commemorated,…
Patricia Clavin. Securing the World Economy: The Reinvention of the League of Nations, 1920–1946
Lecturing on the “moral basis of the League of Nations” in 1923, Robert Cecil—one of the fathers of the League of Nations—praised the manifold “things in which the members of the League have worked together for common objects.” Securing the World Economy sheds light on a crucial dimension of this endeavor, namely economic and financial cooperation. Patricia Clavin has written a pioneering account of the League's Economic and Financial Organizatio…
Pacifism in Fin-De-Siècle Austria: The Politics and Limits of Peace Activism
The late Habsburg Monarchy produced two of the most renowned peace activists of their day: Bertha von Suttner and Alfred Fried. In comparison to these two Nobel Peace laureates, the main association of Austro-pacifism – the Österreichische Friedensgesellschaft (ÖFG) – is less well known. The article concentrates on this organization, which had been founded in 1891, and it draws attention to the political and intellectual environment in which it o…
Beyond the Metropolis: French and Belgian Symbolists between the Region and the Republic of Letters
In 1892, the editors of the journal La Jeune Belgique – the bell-ringer of Belgian modernism –made a claim that seemingly contradicted the publication’s central role in the country’s so-called ‘literary renaissance’.1 They asserted that their periodical had ‘never promoted a national literature, that is to say, “Belgian literature”’.2 Instead, they portrayed themselves as French writers, comparable to authors in Brittany and the South of France
Belgium on the Move: Transnational History and the Belle Époque
This article pursues a dual agenda: it argues that transnational approaches can shed fresh light on Belgian history, and that Belgium provides a fitting test case for an enquiry into the nature and workings of transnational exchanges. This focus draws particular attention to the sites where activists and academics gathered, and to the organizations which sustained such processes. Thus, the authors consider those factors, which facilitated transna…
Des Belges a l'epreuve de l'Exil: Les refugies de la Premiere Guerre mondiale; France, Grande-Bretagne, Pays-Bas, 1914-1918, by Michael Amara
Transnational intellectual cooperation, the League of Nations, and the problem of order
This article examines the political and cultural contexts of the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation and the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation. These two League of Nations bodies were charged with fostering international understanding through the promotion of educational, scientific, and cultural exchange. Whereas previous studies have revealed the institutional and diplomatic processes that shaped these bodies, …
The Tensions of Internationalism: Transnational Anti-Slavery in the 1880s and 1890s
In 1888 Cardinal Lavigerie, the Archbishop of Algiers and Carthage, launched his ‘anti-slavery crusade’. Drawing attention to slave raids in Africa and to the East African slave trade, this initiative resulted in the foundation of several new anti-slavery associations. Many of them maintained close connections to Catholic politics and missionaries, yet also co-operated with two older – and predominantly Protestant – groups in Britain: the British…
Democratic Politics and the League of Nations: The Labour and Socialist International as a Protagonist of Interwar Internationalism
The Labour and Socialist International (LSI) was a major vehicle for transnational socialist cooperation during the interwar years and thus seemed to continue the traditions of socialist internationalism. In the realm of international relations, however, it championed key tenets of liberal internationalism. The LSI supported the idea of a League of Nations and embraced the notion of a world order based upon democratic nation-states. While it crit…
Inside the Humanitarian Cloud: Causes and Motivations to Help Friends and Strangers
Inside the Humanitarian Cloud: Causes and Motivations to Help Friends and Strangers This introductory essay examines humanitarianism as both a concept and a practice. The piece discusses the tropes and ideas that sustained the construction of humanitarian causes – from compassion and solidarity to moral outrage. It subsequently focuses on strategies and mechanisms that sustained humanitarian campaigns, in particular the use of «information politi…
Rebuilding the Universities after the Great War: Ex‐Service Students, Scholarships and the Reconstruction of Student Life in England
This article examines a transformative moment in the history of British higher education. After the First World War, student numbers were boosted by the arrival of large numbers of ex‐servicemen. Their access to university was facilitated by the government‐funded Scheme for the Higher Education of Ex‐Service Students, which provided grants to nearly 28,000 students between 1918 and 1923. The article offers the first sustained historical analysis …
The politics of transnational student mobility: Youth, education and activism in Ghana, 1957–1966
This article examines the political agendas, practical challenges and personal aspirations that informed different forms of transnational student mobility in the 1950s and 1960s. It does so by focusing on a variety of initiatives that involved Ghana during the period of Kwame Nkrumah’s rule (1957–1966). The article considers schemes that enabled Ghanaian students to attend universities in the United States and the communist bloc, but it also trac…
Youth and internationalism in the twentieth century: An introduction
This essay introduces a special issue on the complex and contradictory ways in which young activists and youth organisations have encountered and experienced internationalism. It argues for the need to pay greater attention to the ambiguous encounters – involving seemingly benevolent aims but also blind spots and prejudices – that were created by transnational youth mobilities and by young people’s participation in international ventures. We firs…
Internationalisme ou affirmation de la nation ? La coopération intellectuelle transnationale dans l'entre-deux-guerres
How did intellectuals and politicians confirm or reinforce national categories, even when they ostensibly promoted visions of an international community ? The article addresses this question through a case study of the League of Nations’ mechanisms for intellectual cooperation. After a brief discussion of institutional aspects, namely the establishment of League-affiliated committees and institutes in the 1920s, the article focuses on the interpl…
Laïque, démocratique et sociale'? Socialism and the Freethinkers' International
The article analyses the work of the Fédération internationale de la Libre Pensée, an organization that was founded in 1880 as a transnational actor in Europe's 'culture wars'. With a secretariat based in Brussels, the federation organized twenty-five international congresses in different cities and countries between 1880 and 1938, bringing together representatives of secularist groups as well as political activists and scientists through its eve…
Freethinkers, anarchists and Francisco Ferrer: The making of a transnational solidarity campaign
This article examines the transnational solidarity campaign for Francisco Ferrer, the Catalan anarchist and educator who was sentenced to death for his alleged involvement in Barcelona's ‘Tragic Week’ of 1909. The international scale of the protests against Ferrer's execution was much remarked upon by his contemporaries. While historians have examined both the nature of demonstrations in support of Ferrer and the way in which he was commemorated,…
Beyond the Metropolis: French and Belgian Symbolists between the Region and the Republic of Letters
In 1892, the editors of the journal La Jeune Belgique – the bell-ringer of Belgian modernism –made a claim that seemingly contradicted the publication’s central role in the country’s so-called ‘literary renaissance’.1 They asserted that their periodical had ‘never promoted a national literature, that is to say, “Belgian literature”’.2 Instead, they portrayed themselves as French writers, comparable to authors in Brittany and the South of France
Laïque, démocratique et sociale'? Socialism and the Freethinkers' International
The article analyses the work of the Fédération internationale de la Libre Pensée, an organization that was founded in 1880 as a transnational actor in Europe's 'culture wars'. With a secretariat based in Brussels, the federation organized twenty-five international congresses in different cities and countries between 1880 and 1938, bringing together representatives of secularist groups as well as political activists and scientists through its eve…
Transnational intellectual cooperation, the League of Nations, and the problem of order
This article examines the political and cultural contexts of the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation and the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation. These two League of Nations bodies were charged with fostering international understanding through the promotion of educational, scientific, and cultural exchange. Whereas previous studies have revealed the institutional and diplomatic processes that shaped these bodies, …
Internationalisme ou affirmation de la nation ? La coopération intellectuelle transnationale dans l'entre-deux-guerres
How did intellectuals and politicians confirm or reinforce national categories, even when they ostensibly promoted visions of an international community ? The article addresses this question through a case study of the League of Nations’ mechanisms for intellectual cooperation. After a brief discussion of institutional aspects, namely the establishment of League-affiliated committees and institutes in the 1920s, the article focuses on the interpl…
The Tensions of Internationalism: Transnational Anti-Slavery in the 1880s and 1890s
In 1888 Cardinal Lavigerie, the Archbishop of Algiers and Carthage, launched his ‘anti-slavery crusade’. Drawing attention to slave raids in Africa and to the East African slave trade, this initiative resulted in the foundation of several new anti-slavery associations. Many of them maintained close connections to Catholic politics and missionaries, yet also co-operated with two older – and predominantly Protestant – groups in Britain: the British…
Belgium on the Move: Transnational History and the Belle Époque
This article pursues a dual agenda: it argues that transnational approaches can shed fresh light on Belgian history, and that Belgium provides a fitting test case for an enquiry into the nature and workings of transnational exchanges. This focus draws particular attention to the sites where activists and academics gathered, and to the organizations which sustained such processes. Thus, the authors consider those factors, which facilitated transna…
Des Belges a l'epreuve de l'Exil: Les refugies de la Premiere Guerre mondiale; France, Grande-Bretagne, Pays-Bas, 1914-1918, by Michael Amara
Beyond the Metropolis: French and Belgian Symbolists between the Region and the Republic of Letters
In 1892, the editors of the journal La Jeune Belgique – the bell-ringer of Belgian modernism –made a claim that seemingly contradicted the publication’s central role in the country’s so-called ‘literary renaissance’.1 They asserted that their periodical had ‘never promoted a national literature, that is to say, “Belgian literature”’.2 Instead, they portrayed themselves as French writers, comparable to authors in Brittany and the South of France
Inside the Humanitarian Cloud: Causes and Motivations to Help Friends and Strangers
Inside the Humanitarian Cloud: Causes and Motivations to Help Friends and Strangers This introductory essay examines humanitarianism as both a concept and a practice. The piece discusses the tropes and ideas that sustained the construction of humanitarian causes – from compassion and solidarity to moral outrage. It subsequently focuses on strategies and mechanisms that sustained humanitarian campaigns, in particular the use of «information politi…
Freethinkers, anarchists and Francisco Ferrer: The making of a transnational solidarity campaign
This article examines the transnational solidarity campaign for Francisco Ferrer, the Catalan anarchist and educator who was sentenced to death for his alleged involvement in Barcelona's ‘Tragic Week’ of 1909. The international scale of the protests against Ferrer's execution was much remarked upon by his contemporaries. While historians have examined both the nature of demonstrations in support of Ferrer and the way in which he was commemorated,…
Patricia Clavin. Securing the World Economy: The Reinvention of the League of Nations, 1920–1946
Lecturing on the “moral basis of the League of Nations” in 1923, Robert Cecil—one of the fathers of the League of Nations—praised the manifold “things in which the members of the League have worked together for common objects.” Securing the World Economy sheds light on a crucial dimension of this endeavor, namely economic and financial cooperation. Patricia Clavin has written a pioneering account of the League's Economic and Financial Organizatio…
Pacifism in Fin-De-Siècle Austria: The Politics and Limits of Peace Activism
The late Habsburg Monarchy produced two of the most renowned peace activists of their day: Bertha von Suttner and Alfred Fried. In comparison to these two Nobel Peace laureates, the main association of Austro-pacifism – the Österreichische Friedensgesellschaft (ÖFG) – is less well known. The article concentrates on this organization, which had been founded in 1891, and it draws attention to the political and intellectual environment in which it o…
Democratic Politics and the League of Nations: The Labour and Socialist International as a Protagonist of Interwar Internationalism
The Labour and Socialist International (LSI) was a major vehicle for transnational socialist cooperation during the interwar years and thus seemed to continue the traditions of socialist internationalism. In the realm of international relations, however, it championed key tenets of liberal internationalism. The LSI supported the idea of a League of Nations and embraced the notion of a world order based upon democratic nation-states. While it crit…
Belgian exiles, the British and the Great War: The Birtley Belgians of Elisabethville
Located in Birtley, County Durham, the gated community of Elisabethville housed several thousand Belgians from 1916 until the aftermath of the Great War. Most residents were conscripted Belgian soldiers who constituted the workforce at the nearby National Projectile Factory. This article focuses on the complex relationship between the ‘Birtley Belgians’ and their host population. It thus covers issues such as wartime charity, Anglo-Belgian leisur…
Activism in the 'Students' League of Nations: International Student Politics and the Confédération Internationale des Étudiants, 1919-1939
The aftermath of the First World War saw manifold efforts to (re-)construct an international community. One striking feature of this development was the foundation of a number of international student organisations. This article analyses the largest of these organisations-the International Confederation of Students (Confédération internationale des Étudiants, CIE), using it as a prism through which to examine four major aspects of inter-war stude…
Rocking Against the Right: Political Activism and Popular Music in West Germany, 1979-1980
The article examines radical cultural politics by focusing on the West German initiative of Rock gegen Rechts (‘Rock Against the Right’). This campaign involved concerts, publications and demonstrations, most notably the staging of two large-scale festivals in Frankfurt/Main in 1979 and 1980. Rock Against Racism – launched in Britain in 1976 – served as a model for the activists. Yet Rock gegen Rechts differed from its British counterpart in sign…
The League of Nations and the Refugees from Nazi Germany: James G. McDonald and Hitler’s Victims, by Greg Burgess
In December 1935, James McDonald resigned from his position as League of Nations High Commissioner for the Refugees from Germany. McDonald’s tenure had been a short and unhappy one, lasting for just over fourteen months. He had been charged with supporting the settlement of refugees by working with governments and private organisations as well as securing appropriate funding and addressing the legal status of exiles from Germany. His resignation …
Rebuilding the Universities after the Great War: Ex‐Service Students, Scholarships and the Reconstruction of Student Life in England
This article examines a transformative moment in the history of British higher education. After the First World War, student numbers were boosted by the arrival of large numbers of ex‐servicemen. Their access to university was facilitated by the government‐funded Scheme for the Higher Education of Ex‐Service Students, which provided grants to nearly 28,000 students between 1918 and 1923. The article offers the first sustained historical analysis …
Talbot C. Imlay. The Practice of Socialist Internationalism: European Socialists and International Politics, 1914–1960
Throughout its history, the socialist movement has repeatedly professed, celebrated, and staged its internationalism. While the First and Second Internationals occupy a prominent place in the wider literature on the history of the Left, there is an understandable temptation to treat the year 1914 as something of an end point, marked by the apparent collapse in international solidarity. From such a perspective, subsequent attempts to forge transna…
Student Funding and University Access After the Great War: The Scheme for the Higher Education of Ex-Servicemen at Aberystwyth, Liverpool and Oxford
This article makes a fresh contribution to the literature on student funding and its history by drawing attention to a pioneering government initiative, launched in the aftermath of the Great War. From the winter of 1918–1919 until 1923, the Scheme for the Higher Education of Ex-Servicemen provided grants to university students in England and Wales. We argue that it amounted to a major educational reform venture: it supported students on an unpre…
Transnational Dimensions of a ‘German Case’: The Expatriation of Wolf Biermann and the Politics of Solidarity in the 1970s
In November 1976, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) announced the expatriation of the dissident singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann, preventing his return from a concert tour in West Germany. This step attracted widespread press coverage and sparked a substantial expression of solidarity by East German intellectuals. This article proposes an alternative perspective on this well-known episode in German history by highlighting its transnational dime…
Activism and Dissent under State Socialism: Coalitions and Campaigns in the 1970s and 1980s
This article introduces a special Labour History Review issue on the subject of 'Challenges to State Socialism in Central and Eastern Europe: Activists, Movements and Alliances in the 1970s and 1980s'. Our piece highlights different stimuli for dissent and opposition in the Eastern bloc, drawing attention to three strands that helped to inform political activism. First, it discusses the way in which various forms of dissident Marxism informed cri…
The politics of transnational student mobility: Youth, education and activism in Ghana, 1957–1966
This article examines the political agendas, practical challenges and personal aspirations that informed different forms of transnational student mobility in the 1950s and 1960s. It does so by focusing on a variety of initiatives that involved Ghana during the period of Kwame Nkrumah’s rule (1957–1966). The article considers schemes that enabled Ghanaian students to attend universities in the United States and the communist bloc, but it also trac…
Youth and internationalism in the twentieth century: An introduction
This essay introduces a special issue on the complex and contradictory ways in which young activists and youth organisations have encountered and experienced internationalism. It argues for the need to pay greater attention to the ambiguous encounters – involving seemingly benevolent aims but also blind spots and prejudices – that were created by transnational youth mobilities and by young people’s participation in international ventures. We firs…
Introduction: Subversion, Dissent and Opposition in Communist Europe and Beyond
This essay introduces “Between Subversion and Opposition: Multiple Challenges to Communist Rule,” a special issue of East Central Europe . It focuses on four broader questions raised by the contributions: the different periodizations associated with communist rule; the meanings attached to different forms of subversion and dissent; the broader transnational contexts in which activists operated – including the role of contacts with activists in th…
Rethinking Transnational Activism through Regional Perspectives: Reflections, Literatures and Cases
This collectively authored article argues for a regional turn in the historical study of transnational activism. By considering not only pan-regional movements but also examples of borderland contexts, transregional connections and diasporic understandings of ‘region’, our discussion identifies fresh possibilities for investigating the evolution and functioning of transnational activism. Based on a Royal Historical Society-funded workshop held at…
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