The Emergence of Autonomist Politics: European Radicalism after the Extreme Left, 1976-1985: reading notes

This transnational and comparative work studies the European autonomist and protest movements of the late Seventies and early Eighties in major European cities (Rome, Milan, Zürich, West Berlin, Frankfurt). It aims at analysing: -what their contributions to political culture, youth identity formation, and governance institutions were. - to what extent the concepts, practices, and organizational forms of militants identifying as autonomists actually converged - to what extent autonomists generated convergent responses from institutions, officials, New Left political parties, trade unions, media institutions, and the police - why the events in Italy generate the highest transnational resonances in Switzerland and West Germany and less impact in France - how these aspects generate scholarly revisions to our understandings of the dynamics and impacts of youth subcultures and radical politics after 1968.