Making Sense of the Americas

Acknowledgements
The editors would like to express their gratitude to a number of individuals, groups and institutions that contributed and helped in producing this edited volume, which is the result of a workshop held at Humboldt University Berlin in May 2013. First, this conference would not have been possible without the support of Fritz Thyssen Stiftung and the Special Research Unit 640 "Representations of Changing Social Orders". Furthermore, Fritz Thyssen Stiftung approved a generous grant to cover the costs of publication. We are also grateful to Jörg Baberowski, Stefan Rinke and Michael Wildt for their acceptance to include this volume into "Eigene und Fremde Welten". Likewise, we are deeply indebted to Jürgen Hotz, Eva Janetzko and Cornelia Stratthaus of Campus Publishing for their manifold advice and commitment to this edition. Lisa Esser, Kevin Lenk and Julian Nazaruk have offered inestimable support during the editing process.

Jan Hansen, Christian Helm, Frank Reichherzer
August 2015


I. Foundations


Transatlantic Flows and Complex Entanglements of Protest in the 1980s.
An Introduction
Jan Hansen, Christian Helm, Frank Reichherzer
It is 1982. David Horsey, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist, sketches a world map which he believes will irritate those who look at it. "The World According to Ronald Reagan" is the title of this illustration finally published in the daily newspaper Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Most strikingly, the drawing is not in due proportion to other maps. Basically, it rescales the prevalent view on geography. This may be read as an under-mining of all presumptions about how the world supposedly works. But what can we see when we look at it? First of all, we learn that the world consists of two major countries, namely the United States of America and the Soviet Union, represented by a cowboy figure with the hand on the trigger and a bear-like man with an Ushanka, a Russian-style ear-hat. The

Contents

Acknowledgments 9

I. Foundations

Transatlantic Flows and Complex Entanglements of Protest in the 1980s. Introduction 13 (Jan Hansen, Christian Helm, Frank Reichherzer)

Views from the South - Latin American Roots of Anti-Imperialism and Anti-Yankeeism 31 (Christine Hatzky)


II. Looking Northward
"European women push for awareness" - Images, Construals and Activities 5 (Anne Bieschke)

"one world - one struggle - one enemy": The Occupation of the Amerikahaus in West-Berlin, 1980 (Vojin Sasa Vukadinovi?)

"Pacifism does not ensure Peace" -Explaining the Low Profile of the French Pacifist Movement 89 (Ilaria Parisi)

The Italian Communists' Protest against US Foreign Policy - from Nixon to Reagan 109 (Valentine Lomellini)


III. Looking Southward

The Swedish-Chilean Society - Fascist Solidarity with Pinochet's Chile in Sweden 131 (Fernando Camacho Padilla)

Globalizing Nicaragua? An Entangled History of Sandinista Solidarity Movements in Western Europe 151(Kim Christiaens)

Between Solidarity and Emancipation? Female Solidarity and Nicaraguan Revolutionary Feminism 175
(Friederike Apelt)

Guns, Doves and Utopia - Cartoons and Posters in West German Nicaragua Solidarity 197 (Christian Helm)


IV. Looking Beyond

The Promise of Internationalism - US Anti-Nuclear Activism and the European Challenge 225 (Kyle Harvey)

An "Other American" - Petra Kelly and the Power of Green Politics in the United States 245 (Stephen Milder)

The Transatlantic Drift and the Reinvention of Europe - West German Labor Unions' Perception of America 267 (Jasper M. Trautsch)
Dissociation and Cooperation - Willy Brandt, the United States and the New Social Movements 293 (Judith Michel)

Victory over American Imperialism? The "Heroine of Socialism" Angela Davis in East Berlin 311 (Kristina Kütt)

The Blazing Continent - Latin American Folklore and Romanticism in the Soviet Union 333 (Tobias Rupprecht)

Notes on Contributors 355

Jan Hansen ist wiss. Mitarbeiter an der HU Berlin. Christian Helm ist wiss. Mitarbeiter an der Universität Hannover. Frank Reichherzer ist wiss. Mitarbeiter am ZMSBw in Potsdam.