Dr. Christian Wicke

Assistant Professor
Political History
Political History
c.wicke@uu.nl

Publications

2024

Scholarly publications

Wicke, C. (2024). Urbaner Aktivismus zur Wendezeit. sub\urban, 12(2/3), 269-280. https://zeitschrift-suburban.de/sys/index.php/suburban/article/view/993/1445#content
Prat, E., & Wicke, C. (2024). Let's take the city: Turin's urban movement, 1968-1975. In C. Wicke, & T. Verlaan (Eds.), Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements (pp. 141-170). (Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements; Vol. Part F3208). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57642-3_7
Verlaan, T., & Wicke, C. (2024). Indroduction: Urban Activism in Western Europe from the 1950s to the 1980s. In Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements (pp. 1-19). (Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements; Vol. Part F3208). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57642-3_1
Verlaan, T., & Wicke, C. (Eds.) (2024). Urban Activism in Western Europe from the 1950s to the 1980s. (Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements). Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/book/9783031576416

2023

Scholarly publications

Wicke, C. (2023). 6장 1945년 이후 민족주의 역사와 구성주의 (Constructivism in the History of Nationalism since 1945). In S. Berger, & E. Storm (Eds.), 민족주의, 역사를 쓰다 (Writing the History of Nationalism) (pp. 190-231). 연암서가.
Wicke, C. (2023). Urban Spaces. In Y. Gutman, & J. Wüstenberg (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (1 ed., pp. 229-236). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003127550-46
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/436271/10.4324_9781003127550-46_chapterpdf.pdf?sequence=1

2022

Scholarly publications

Wicke, C. (2022). The Anthropocene in History and Historiography. Bloomsbury History: Theory and Method. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350915831.172
Berger, S., Musso, S., & Wicke, C. (2022). The Unmaking of Industrial Landscapes: The North-Western Italian Industrial Triangle and the Ruhr Region in Germany. In S. Berger, S. Musso, & C. Wicke (Eds.), Deindustrialisation in Twentieth-Century Europe: The Northwest of Italy and the Ruhr Region in Comparison (pp. 1-40). (Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89631-7_1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/425586/978_3_030_89631_7_1.pdf?sequence=1
Berger, S., Musso, S., & Wicke, C. (Eds.) (2022). Deindustrialisation in Twentieth-Century Europe: The Northwest of Italy and the Ruhr Region in Comparison. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89631-7

2021

Scholarly publications

Wicke, C., & Berger, S. (2021). "...Dos monstruosas estructuras antagonistas": el activismo pacifista y la filosofiá histórica marxista de E. P. Thompson durante la Guerra Fría. In S. Berger, & C. Cornelissen (Eds.), Culturas históricas marxistas y movimientos sociales en la Guerra Fría (pp. 199-224). Institución Fernando el Católico. https://ifc.dpz.es/publicaciones/ebooks/id/3901
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/420257/08bergerwicke.pdf?sequence=1
Berger, S., Scalmer, S., & Wicke, C. (Eds.) (2021). Remembering Social Movements: Activism and Memory. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003087830
Berger, S., Scalmer, S., & Wicke, C. (2021). Memory and Social Movements: An Introduction. In S. Berger, S. Scalmer, & C. Wicke (Eds.), Remembering Social Movements: Activism and Memory (1 ed., pp. 1-25). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003087830-1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/414903/10.4324_9781003087830_1_chapterpdf.pdf?sequence=1
Wicke, C. (2021). Memory “within”, “of” and “by” Urban Movements. In S. Berger, S. Scalmer, & C. W. (Eds.), Remembering Social Movements: Activism and Memory (pp. 133-155). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003087830-8
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/416461/10.4324_9781003087830-8_chapterpdf.pdf?sequence=2

2020

Scholarly publications

Berger, S., Golombek, J., & Wicke, C. (2020). Industrial Heritage in the Ruhr Cities. In C. Reicher, F. Bayro-Kaiser, H. Jansen, & J. Povlika (Eds.), Polycentric City Regions in Transformation: The Ruhr agglomeration in international perspective (pp. 147-158). (Stadt- und Raumplanung; Vol. 20). LIT Verlag/Transaction Publishers.

2019

Scholarly publications

Wicke, C. (2019). Reunification and National Identity in Germany: A Return to Normality? In E. Braat, & P. Corduwener (Eds.), 1989 and the West: Western Europe since the End of the Cold War (pp. 65-80). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315146355-5
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/392471/10.4324_9781315146355_5.pdf?sequence=1
Berger, S., & Wicke, C. (2019). ‘…two monstrous antagonistic structures’: E.P. Thompson’s Marxist Historical Philosophy and Peace Activism during the Cold War. In S. Berger, & C. Cornelissen (Eds.), Marxist Historical Cultures and Social Movements in Western Europe during the Cold War (pp. 163-185). (Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03804-5_7
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/391545/Berger_Wicke2019_Chapter_TwoMonstrousAntagonisticStruct.pdf?sequence=1
Wicke, C. (2019). Constructivism in the History of Nationalism since 1945. In S. Berger, & E. Storm (Eds.), Writing the History of Nationalism (1 ed.). Bloomsbury.

2018

Scholarly publications

Wicke, C. (2018). Arbeiterbewegung und urbane Bewegung in den 1970er Jahren: Das Ruhrgebiet und Sydney im Vergleich. Arbeit – Bewegung – Geschichte. Zeitschrift für historische Studien , 17(3), 57-73.
Teichmann, U., & Wicke, C. (2018). Alte und Neue soziale Bewegungen: Einleitende Anmerkungen. Arbeit – Bewegung – Geschichte. Zeitschrift für historische Studien , 17(3), 11-19.
Clemens, C. M., Granieri, R., Haeussler, M., Sarotte, M. E., Spohr, K., & Wicke, C. (2018). In Memory of the “Two Helmuts”: A Discussion of the Lives, Legacies, and Historical Impact of Helmut Schmidt and Helmut Kohl: Forum. Central European History, 51(2), 282-309. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008938918000389
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/375257/clemens.pdf?sequence=1
Wicke, C. (2018). Introduction: Industrial Heritage and Regional Identities. In C. Wicke, S. Berger, & J. Golombek (Eds.), Industrial Heritage and Regional Identities Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315281179
Berger, S., Golombek, J., & Wicke, C. (2018). A Post-Industrial Mindscape? The Mainstreaming and Touristification of Industrial Heritage in the Ruhr. In C. Wicke, S. Berger, & J. Golombek (Eds.), Industrial Heritage and Regional Identities (Routledge Cultural Heritage and Tourism Series). Routledge.
Wicke, C., & Wellings, B. (2018). History Wars in Germany and Australia: National Museums and the Relegitimisation of Nationhood. In B. Bervernage, & N. Wouters (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of State-Sponsored History after 1945 (1 ed., pp. 431-445). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95306-6_23
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/376876/History.pdf?sequence=1
Wicke, C., Berger, S., & Golombek, J. (Eds.) (2018). Industrial Heritage and Regional Identities. (Routledge Cultural Heritage and Tourism Series). Routledge.

Professional publications

Wicke, C. (2018). Industriekultur und urbane Bewegung im Ruhrgebiet: Die Arbeitersiedlungsinitiativen in den 1970er Jahren. In J. Flieshart, & J. Golombek (Eds.), RevierGestalten. Von Orten und Menschen: Ausstellungskatalog (pp. 34-45). Klartext Verlag.

2017

Scholarly publications

Berger, S., & Wicke, C. (2017). Introduction: Deindustrialization, Heritage and Representations of Identity. The Public Historian, 39(4), 10-20. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2017.39.4.10
Berger, S., Wicke, C., & Golombek, J. (2017). Burdens of Eternity? Heritage, Identity and the Great Transition in the Ruhr. The Public Historian, 39(4), 21-43. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2017.39.4.21
Berger, S., & Wicke, C. (2017). A Very Rooted Cosmopolitan: EP Thompson’s Englishness and Global Activism. In S. Berger, & S. Scalmer (Eds.), The Transnational Activist: Transformations and Comparisons from the Anglo-World since the Nineteenth Century (1 ed., pp. 257-281). (Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66206-0_10
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/375593/berger.pdf?sequence=1
Wicke, C. (2017). Urban Movement à la Ruhr? The Initiatives for the Preservation of Workers' Settlements in the 1970s. In M. Baumeister, D. Schott, & B. Bonomo (Eds.), Cities Contested: Urban Politics, Heritage and Social Movements in Italian and West German cities of the 1970s (pp. 347-371). Campus.

Other output

Wicke, C. (2017). Deindustrialization in historical culture. Web publication/site, National Council of Public History. http://ncph.org/history-at-work/deindustrialization-in-historical-culture/

2016

Scholarly publications

Wicke, C., & Eklund, E. (2016). Historical Cultures of Labour Under Conditions of Deindustrialization, first conference of the European Labour History Network, Turin, 14–16 December 2016. History Workshop Journal, 82(1), 293-298. https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbw037

2015

Scholarly publications

Wicke, C. (2015). Helmut Kohl's Quest for Normality: His Representation of the German Nation and Himself (Paperback ed. 2017). (Making Sense of History). Berghahn. http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/WickeHelmut

Professional publications

Wicke, C., Berger, S., & Golombek, J. (2015). Erinnerung, Bewegung, Identität: Industriekultur als Welterbe im 21. Jahrhundert. Forum Geschichtskultur Ruhr, (2), 23-29.

2014

Scholarly publications

Wicke, C. (2014). Between German and Eternal Spirit: Kohl’s Politics of Historical Memory in Biographical Perspective. Moving the Social – Journal of Social History and the History of Social Movements, (52), 139-170. http://moving-the-social.ub.rub.de/index.php/Moving_the_social/article/view/853/814
Berger, S., & Wicke, C. (2014). Um imaginário pós-industrial? A popularização do patrimônio industrial no Ruhr e a representação de sua identidade regional. Estudos Históricos, 27(54), 231-254. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0103-21862014000200002
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/407397/download.pdf?sequence=1

2013

Scholarly publications

Hearn, J., & Wicke, C. (2013). Introduction: Understanding Nationalism through Biographies. Humanities Research, 19(1), 1-3. https://doi.org/10.22459/HR.XIX.01.2013
Wicke, C. (2013). The Personal Nationalism of Helmut Kohl: A paragon of Germany’s new normality? Humanities Research, 19(1). https://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p224201/pdf/Part7.pdf
Wicke, C. (2013). A Romantic Nationalist? Helmut Kohl’s ethnocultural representation of his nation and himself. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 19(2), 141-162. https://doi.org/10.1080/13537113.2013.788909
Wicke, C. (2013). Helmut Kohl’s Catholic Nationalism. In J. Jose, & R. Imre (Eds.), Not So Strange Bedfellows (pp. 98-116). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.