Moving the SocialPub Date : 2017-10-20DOI: 10.13154/mts.58.2017.51-80
Bernhard H. Bayerlein
{"title":"Willi Münzenberg’s ‘Last Empire’: Die Zukunft and the ‘Franco-German Union’, Paris, 1938 – 1940. New Visions of Anti-Fascism and the Transnational Networks of the Anti-Hitler Resistance","authors":"Bernhard H. Bayerlein","doi":"10.13154/mts.58.2017.51-80","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13154/mts.58.2017.51-80","url":null,"abstract":"The weekly Die Zukunft is among the most ambitious Franco-German media projects and collective organisers with European repercussions during the final crisis of the inter-war period from the Munich Agreement in September 1938 until May 1940 and the German occupation of France during the Second World War. The reading of the political-cultural journal as a unique, last ‘anti-fascist intermediate empire’ before the outbreak of the war and the efforts made by its editor, Willi Munzenberg, to unite the transnational anti-Hitler oppositionist networks contributes to an innovative perspective on the history of the German-speaking political emigration and German-French relations. New insights require major adjustments in the history of European strategies and the anti-Stalinist shift expressed by Die Zukunft after the conclusion of the Stalin-Hitler Pact contributes to a deeper understanding of the crisis of the political exile and the first stages of World War Two. According to Munzenberg’s concept of the future, democracy and socialism were to be rethought as a European task, against the division and the dismemberment of Germany and Europe after Hitler, against the reconstruction under conditions of capitalism and against the international and domestic political arrangements of the Stalinist Soviet Union. Henceforth “peace and freedom” had to be (…) “defended against Hitler and Stalin” and further neo-imperialist arrangements. Nevertheless, the Zukunft could not prevent the definite failure of exile and resistance, which was rooted in the catastrophic defeat of the German Labour Movement in 1933, the sectarian refusal of a popular resistance of all social strata and the ties with Western democracies and their political apparatuses.","PeriodicalId":218833,"journal":{"name":"Moving the Social","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130554081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Moving the SocialPub Date : 2017-10-20DOI: 10.13154/MTS.58.2017.29-50
M. Möller
{"title":"Marginalised Neo-Rurals and Alternative Trailerists: Self-made Housing as a Counter Concept of the 1970s and 1980s in Germany and France","authors":"M. Möller","doi":"10.13154/MTS.58.2017.29-50","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13154/MTS.58.2017.29-50","url":null,"abstract":"Alternative concepts for everyday life often unfold in the context of social movements, as marginalised niches become laboratories for new ways of living. This was especially true in Western Europe in the 1970s and 1980s, when new forms of self-made housing experienced a fundamental shift. Until that time, light and self-made dwellings brought to mind socially scorned shanty towns. But when countercultural groups appropriated similar construction techniques and adopted corresponding daily routines, these dwellings became an influential image and reference point for a freely chosen, off-the-grid lifestyle beyond capitalist consumer society. In retrospect, this process appears straightforward and self-evident, and the ruptures, contingencies and specific conditions accompanying it are easily overlooked. This article seeks to expose those gaps by describing the challenges and experimental steps that led to the introduction of light, ephemeral and mobile housing alternatives in Germany and France as a lived practise. To do so, it relies on a qualitative examination of publications and grey literature from countercultural movements in France and Germany. This provides new insights into how this form of alternative housing evolved from the first reports of US-American examples, and how diverse directions were taken in the two different national contexts.","PeriodicalId":218833,"journal":{"name":"Moving the Social","volume":"353 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122790551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Moving the SocialPub Date : 2017-05-31DOI: 10.13154/MTS.57.2017.159-174
Enrico Dal Lago, Kevin O’Sullivan
{"title":"Review Article: Prosopographies, Transnational Lives, and Multiple Identities in Global Humanitarianism","authors":"Enrico Dal Lago, Kevin O’Sullivan","doi":"10.13154/MTS.57.2017.159-174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13154/MTS.57.2017.159-174","url":null,"abstract":"Bruno Cabanes: The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism 1918 – 1924, Cambridge / New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014, vii + 390 pp., ISBN: 978-1-107-60483-4. Jay Winter / Antoine Prost: Rene Cassin and Human Rights: From the Great War to the Universal Declaration, Cambridge / New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013, xxiii + 376 pp., ISBN: 978-1-107-65570-6. Marian Moser Jones: The American Red Cross from Clara Barton to the New Deal, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013, xxviii + 365 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4214-0738-8. Alex Wright: Cataloguing the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age, Oxford / New York: Oxford University Press, 2014, 350 pp., ISBN: 978-0-19-993141-5.","PeriodicalId":218833,"journal":{"name":"Moving the Social","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130561038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Moving the SocialPub Date : 2017-05-31DOI: 10.13154/MTS.57.2017.137-158
Jeffrey Flynn
{"title":"Philosophers, Historians, and Suffering Strangers","authors":"Jeffrey Flynn","doi":"10.13154/MTS.57.2017.137-158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13154/MTS.57.2017.137-158","url":null,"abstract":"This article juxtaposes two classic essays written in the 1970s, one by philosopher Peter Singer and one by historian Thomas Haskell, in order to identify a shared theme that animates their work: that the availability of repertoires for action to alleviate distant suffering affects our causal relation to the suffering, which in turn affects our responsibility to act. In this way, we see the historical context in which a certain kind of humanitarian appeal played a prominent role in the work of two ground-breaking scholars in different disciplines. The essay also identifies the limits of that kind of appeal by distinguishing what I will call Suffering Stranger Humanitarianism from Causal Contribution Humanitarianism. It concludes by showing how the latter involves notions of collective responsibility and how both modes of appeal can make use of the notion of complicity.","PeriodicalId":218833,"journal":{"name":"Moving the Social","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132650526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Moving the SocialPub Date : 2017-05-31DOI: 10.13154/MTS.57.2017.115-136
Christopher Moores
{"title":"Solidarity for Chile, transnational activism and the evolution of human rights","authors":"Christopher Moores","doi":"10.13154/MTS.57.2017.115-136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13154/MTS.57.2017.115-136","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses British manifestations of opposition to Augusto Pinochet’s regime including the Chile Solidarity Campaign, the Chile Committee for Human Rights and Amnesty International. It explores the intricacies of the evolution of human rights and its funcion as a political language by assessing their activities during the 1970s and 1980s. Chile was seen as a crucial moment in the “breakthrough” of a transnational politics of human rights, but assessing opposition to the Chilean regime also exposes a series of fractures within the transnational currents of the 1970s. At the heart of campaigns against the junta were a number of fissures, or points of tension; between “national” and “global”; between conceptualisation of human rights and solidarity and, perhaps most significantly, between progressive forms of transnationalism and alternative globalising forces with more ambiguous moral or political groundings. Chile helped expand the resonance of human rights, but also shows the complexities of this ascent, the ambiguities of this evolution and its legacies.","PeriodicalId":218833,"journal":{"name":"Moving the Social","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116670872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Moving the SocialPub Date : 2017-05-31DOI: 10.13154/mts.57.2017.57-76
J. Irwin
{"title":"Connected by Calamity: The United States, the League of Red Cross Societies, and Transnational Disaster Assistance after the First World War","authors":"J. Irwin","doi":"10.13154/mts.57.2017.57-76","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13154/mts.57.2017.57-76","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses the development of organised relief for global natural disasters in the years after the First World War, c. 1919 – 1932. It does so by telling two concurrent humanitarian narratives, one focused on a transnational institution, the other on the international affairs of a single nation-state. First, it examines the emergence of the United States as a key figure in global disaster relief at this time. Here, it pays close attention to the transnational connections that American citizens, voluntary associations, and government agencies forged with people in other nations through disaster aid. The article then traces the origins and rise of the League of Red Cross Societies as a leading institution of voluntary transnational disaster assistance during the 1920s and early 1930s, thus recovering the untold history of the organisation’s earliest disaster relief operations. Analysing these narratives in tandem and considering the links between them, I argue, offers important new perspectives on the history of transnational disaster relief at a key stage in its historical development, the interwar years.","PeriodicalId":218833,"journal":{"name":"Moving the Social","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116414278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Moving the SocialPub Date : 2017-05-31DOI: 10.13154/MTS.57.2017.37-56
K. Lowe
{"title":"The League of Red Cross Societies and International Committee of the Red Cross: a Re-Evaluation of American Influence in Interwar Internationalism","authors":"K. Lowe","doi":"10.13154/MTS.57.2017.37-56","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13154/MTS.57.2017.37-56","url":null,"abstract":"In 1919, the Allied Red Cross societies founded a new international federation of the Red Cross movement, the League of Red Cross Societies. The League of Red Cross Societies brought a new commitment to an “intelligent, peacetime programme”1—specifically public health education, medical research, and disaster relief—to a humanitarian movement that had previously focused on wartime medical aid to soldiers. The League of Red Cross Societies initially attracted much attention, but its focus on health and welfare development failed to attract the intergovernmental funding necessary to implement its programme. This article compares the League of Red Cross Societies’ attempt to mount an international anti-epidemic campaign in Poland with a concurrent effort by the International Committee of the Red Cross to mount an international repatriation programme on behalf of prisoners of war in Siberia from 1919 – 1922. The League of Red Cross Societies’ failure to transform the focus of the Red Cross movement towards health and welfare is indicative of the fact that intergovernmental support for humanitarian relief was reserved for humanitarian crises that were viewed as a clear threat to the peace and prosperity of Europe. Comparing these concurrent relief operations illuminates the political purposes of international relief and the terms through which governments understood international cooperation during the interwar years.","PeriodicalId":218833,"journal":{"name":"Moving the Social","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131731556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Moving the SocialPub Date : 2017-05-31DOI: 10.13154/MTS.57.2017.5-20
Enrico Dal Lago, Kevin O’Sullivan
{"title":"Introduction: Towards a New History of Humanitarianism","authors":"Enrico Dal Lago, Kevin O’Sullivan","doi":"10.13154/MTS.57.2017.5-20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13154/MTS.57.2017.5-20","url":null,"abstract":"This is the contribution \"Introduction: Towards a New History of Humanitarianism\" of MTS 57 (2017).","PeriodicalId":218833,"journal":{"name":"Moving the Social","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122364874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Moving the SocialPub Date : 2017-05-31DOI: 10.13154/mts.57.2017.21-36
S. Robertson
{"title":"Marketing Social Justice: Lessons from our Abolitionist Predecessors","authors":"S. Robertson","doi":"10.13154/mts.57.2017.21-36","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13154/mts.57.2017.21-36","url":null,"abstract":"This essay explores the nineteenth-century transatlantic free produce movement as a social justice experiment with important lessons for today’s activists. Both American and British abolitionists embraced a boycott of slave goods as a method to place economic pressure on slaveholders and also to cleanse their bodies and souls of the sinfulness of slavery. While free produce failed to affect the financial success of slaveholders, it presented the movement with an opportunity to market abolition to a wider audience. Free produce advocates found methods to humanise enslaved women, men, and children by highlighting the violence, ruthlessness, and injustice of the system. They connected the products of slavery to the enslaved and offered alternative “free produce” to abolitionists. Free produce offered supporters a path toward more collective action against the system of slavery. Modern-day abolitionists are applying these lessons in the fight against slavery today — inspiring consumers to choose “free” or “clean” products as a method for maintaining personal integrity — and encouraging supporters to become actively engaged in the collective antislavery movement.","PeriodicalId":218833,"journal":{"name":"Moving the Social","volume":"136 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123251911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Moving the SocialPub Date : 2017-05-31DOI: 10.13154/MTS.57.2017.77-96
J. Laycock
{"title":"Saving the Remnant or Building Socialism? Transnational Humanitarian Relief in Early Soviet Armenia","authors":"J. Laycock","doi":"10.13154/MTS.57.2017.77-96","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13154/MTS.57.2017.77-96","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on research in the National Archive of Armenia, the League of Nations Archive and the Archives of the Save the Children Fund, this article examines the work of international relief organisations in Soviet Armenia during the 1920s, focusing on the work of the British Lord Mayor’s Fund for Armenian Refugees. This organisation provided shelter, food, education, healthcare and work for refugees in Soviet Armenia until the end of 1926. The article first considers the origins of the Lord Mayor’s Fund’s work in the region and goes on to examine the dynamics of the encounter between British relief agents and the Soviet authorities, considering to what extent they were able to reconcile their priorities and visions of the Armenian future and establish a practical working relationship. Examining this ostensibly unlikely encounter offers a fresh perspective on inter-war humanitarian relief, illuminating the new modes of envisioning “national” futures and discourses and practices of managing displacement which emerged both in the Soviet Union and the “west”. More broadly, this article contributes to the development of more nuanced understandings of the place of the Soviet Union in emerging transnational histories of humanitarianism.","PeriodicalId":218833,"journal":{"name":"Moving the Social","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128665263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}