Anti-Nuclear Protest – Page 3 – Andrew S. Tompkins

Utopia or Dystopia? Cultural Representations of Nuclear Energy in Western European Anti-Nuclear Movements

05/09/2015

A collaborative presentation by Karena Kalmbach, Matthias Lieb, Stephen Milder, Andrew Tompkins, and Dick van Lente at the Tensions of Europe conference, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, Stockholm, 3-6 September 2015. Our analysis focuses on representations of nuclear energy and of the anti-nuclear movement itself within them. Guided by our questioning of the stark contrasts between utopia…
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The Transnational in the Local: The Larzac Plateau as a Site of Transnational Activism since 1970

14/07/2015

Article co-written with Robert Gildea and published in Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 50, no. 3 (July 2015), 581-605.

« L’électro-fascisme n’a pas de frontière ! » Deutsch-Französische Anti-AKW-Proteste der 1970er Jahre

07/05/2015

Vortrag im Rahmen des Deutsch-Französischen Kolloquiums, Centre Marc Bloch Berlin, 7. Mai 2015.

A Specifically 1970s Transnationalism? Anti-Nuclear Protest in France and West Germany

14/11/2014

Presented at the Transformationen der Ökologiebewegung conference, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin, 14-15 November 2014. Abstract: The 1970s were a period in which local and decentralized protest action against nuclear energy collided for the first time with an emerging global environmental consciousness. Were the anti-nuclear protests of that decade therefore unique in their “transnational” nature? Did cross-border interactions…
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Transnational Fusion: Anti-Nuclear Protest in the 1970s and the Rise of the Environmental Movement in West Germany

11/11/2014

Invited talk at NYU Berlin, 11 November 2014.

French-German Border: Oberrhein

17/10/2014

A short evening trip by car along the Rhine (from Weil am Rhein to Fessenheim) in between other travels.

Beyond ‘New Social Movements’: Transnational Anti-Nuclear Protest in France and West Germany

07/11/2013

Presented at the ‘Shaping the 1970s’ workshop at the Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts (University of Bristol), 7 November 2013.

Changing the World, Changing Themselves? Trajectories of Anti-Nuclear Activism, 1968-1981

13/09/2013

Presented at the annual conference of the German History Society, Royal Holloway, University of London, 13 September 2013. Abstract: This presentation will trace the trajectories of individual activists through their participation in the movement opposed to civil nuclear energy in the 1970s. In doing so, it will call into question the assumption that anti-nuclear activism…
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« Larzac-Gorleben : même combat » ? Competing Franco-German Solidarities in Local Struggles of the 1970s

30/06/2013

Presented at the annual conference of the Society for the Study of French History (SSFH), Cardiff, 30 June 2013. Abstract: Throughout the 1970s, the struggle of 103 farmers against the expansion of a military camp on the Larzac plateau attracted widespread support from French and foreign activists. The farmers of the Larzac cultivated relations with…
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‘Radioactivity Doesn’t Stop at the Border and Neither Do We!’ The Anti-Nuclear Movement along the Franco-German Border, 1968–1981

22/04/2013

Presented at Balliol College, University of Oxford, 22 April 2013.

Category: Anti-Nuclear Protest