Tompkins, A. orcid.org/0000-0002-6044-2316 (2020) Towards a 'Europe of Struggles'? Three Visions of Europe in the Early Anti-Nuclear Energy Movement, 1975–79. In: Wenkel, C., Bussière, E., Grisoni, A. and Miard-Delacroix, H., (eds.) The Environment and the European Public Sphere: Perceptions, Actors, Policies. Environmental Issues in European Perspective . White Horse Press , Cambridgeshire , pp. 124-146. ISBN 9781912186143
Abstract
During the 1970s, opposition to nuclear energy was structured primarily by local siting decisions related to national nuclear policies. However, the anti-nuclear movement sometimes defined itself as ‘international’ or ‘European’ in view of the transnational links that existed among activists – as well as among their opponents in state and industry. This chapter examines three visions of ‘Europe’ articulated by the movement: first, the ‘Dreyeckland’ imagined by French, German, and Swiss activists near Wyhl; second, NERSA, the European consortium behind the construction of the ‘Fast Breeder’ plant in Malville; and, finally, the ‘Europe of peoples’ called for in Gorleben, where the ‘Free Republic of Wendland’ was realized along the border with East Germany in May-June 1980. In focusing on these examples, I show several ‘Europes’ of the 1970s: utopian and dystopian, real and potential, of varied spatiality and geometry.
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