Austrian Journal of Historical Studies

Editors: Theresa Adamski, Gabriella Hauch

Editorial staff: Michaela Hafner

“Being radical” was and is a self-definition and expression of a political stance. At the same time, the concept of radicality served as a projection surface for standardization processes and exclusion mechanisms as well as political, social and religious struggles. This OeZG volume is dedicated to these self- and external attributions of radicality in workers' and women's movements from the 19th to the 21st century. The contributions reflect on concepts of radicality from an intersectional perspective and focus on their temporal, spatial and social localization.

The actors discussed include Argentinian anarchists in the 1890s, activists from the Red Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s and feminist theorists up to the present day. Interviews with two climate activists take the discourse on radicalism into the agitated states of the present. The boundaries between what was and is considered radical or conservative, modern or traditional, progressive or reactionary for the protagonists are drawn at different points - sometimes rigidly, sometimes flexibly. The question “What is radical?” therefore remains an open one.

The volume is also published as a print-version in StudienVerlag. Coverdesign by himmel. Studio für Design und Kommunikation, Typesetting: Marianne Oppel, Cover: StudienVerlag/Karin Berner.

146 pp., EUR 38,--, ISBN 978-3-7065-6367-3; ISSN 1016-765 X