Greening Democracy
The Anti-Nuclear Movement and Political Environmentalism in West Germany and Beyond, 1968–1983
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19934709 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Milder (0000-0001-5650-4003, Rijksmuseum, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Greening Democracy (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/9781316471401 |
| OpenAlex | W2613046774 |
| Open Library | OL34732414M |
| ISBN | 9781316471401 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
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
Archaeology · Battle · Corporate governance · Democracy · Economics · Environmentalism · Geography · Government (linguistics) · Grassroots · Management · Nexus (standard) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Engineering · European history and politics · German History and Society · Law · Public Administration · Antinuclear movement · Environmental policy · Environmental protection · Germany · Green movement · History · law and legislation · Nuclear energy
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The emergence of mistrustful civic vigilance in Finnish, French, German and Spanish nuclear policies
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Generating post-modernity
Ambiguities of transnationalism
A Struggle to Remake the Market
Sixties Europe
Nuclear safety by numbers. Probabilistic risk analysis as an evidence practice for technical safety in the German debate on nuclear energy
Historicizing renewables
Energy, history, and the humanities
Reimagining Energy and Growth
The Logic of Sanctuary
Lab Rats for Science
Éliminer et confiner pour gérer
The Call to Political Geography
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |