{"id":120,"date":"2010-07-28T20:30:30","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T18:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban-studies.eu\/?p=120"},"modified":"2010-07-28T20:30:30","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T18:30:30","slug":"konferenz-this-town-is-gonna-blow-european-protest-movements-and-society-in-the-1980s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban-studies.eu\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Konferenz &#8220;This Town Is Gonna Blow&#8230;&#8221; European Protest Movements and Society in the 1980s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thistownisgonnablow.jimdo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/thistownisgonnablow.jimdo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>May 6-8, 2010: Thirty years  after the Bremen &#8220;Bundeswehrkrawalle&#8221; European protest movements of the  1980s will be the subject of an international academic     conference<\/p>\n<p>On May 6<sup>th<\/sup> 1980, a group of new recruits was publicly sworn in with the German <em>Bundeswehr<\/em> in the Bremen soccer stadium. As a reaction,     street battles of hitherto unknown dimensions between left-wing  activists and (military) police took place in the area near the stadium.  Viewed in the following years as the beginning of the     German autonomous movement, this <em>inner city riot<\/em> marked at the same time a European phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>A week earlier the coronation  day of the Dutch Queen Beatrix had seen the squatting of several houses  and the building of barricades in the city of Amsterdam;     at the end of May the so-called <em>Opernhauskrawalle<\/em> shook the city of Zurich; <em>race riots<\/em> worried the British public shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>The Bremen <em>Bundeswehrkrawalle<\/em> seem to have been part of a newly forming protest movement which was characterized by militancy and an attitude of     non-cooperation, a concern for urban spatial politics, and its interpretation as a youth phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>In the states of the Warsaw Pact  important protest movements existed as well \u2013 from Polish Solidarnosc  to the East German peace movement \u2013 while the political     conditions differed significantly. And while Western consumer goods  became the object of desire of many critics of the &#8220;actually existing  socialism&#8221;, a growing &#8220;alternative&#8221; milieu in the West     formulated a fundamental critique of consumption.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty years after the Bremen  Bundeswehrkrawalle an international academic conference will explore  these new protest movements. It will explore questions of     identity and consumption, of the significance of the media,  transnationalism and urban space for these newly formed protest  movements. It further aims to situate these movements in their overall     context of beginning neoliberalism, conservative turn, and the so  called &#8220;Second Cold War&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The conference takes place at the G\u00e4stehaus der Universit\u00e4t Bremen, Auf dem Teerhof 58. All presentations will be held in English.<\/p>\n<p>A public panel discussion on the <em>Bundeswehrkrawalle<\/em> (in German) will take place on May 7, 2010, 7:30 p.m. at the Kulturzentrum Schlachthof. It will be     followed by a screening of the film &#8220;Z\u00fcri br\u00e4nnt&#8221; (CH 1980).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/thistownisgonnablow.jimdo.com May 6-8, 2010: Thirty years after the Bremen &#8220;Bundeswehrkrawalle&#8221; European protest movements of the 1980s will be the subject of an international academic conference On May 6th 1980, a group of new recruits was publicly sworn in with the German Bundeswehr in the Bremen soccer stadium. As a reaction, street battles of hitherto unknown &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban-studies.eu\/?p=120\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Konferenz &#8220;This Town Is Gonna Blow&#8230;&#8221; European Protest Movements and Society in the 1980s&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban-studies.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban-studies.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban-studies.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban-studies.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban-studies.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban-studies.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban-studies.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban-studies.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban-studies.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban-studies.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}