ISBN:
9780231182706
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0231182708
Language:
English
Pages:
xvii, 259 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Bach, Jonathan, 1966 - What remains
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Bach, Jonathan What Remains
DDC:
335.430943
Keywords:
Sozialismus
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Sozialgeschichte
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Sozialer Wandel
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Nationale Einheit
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Ethnologie
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DDR
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Deutschland
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Socialism History
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Germany
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Nostalgia Social aspects
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Socialism History
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Nostalgia Social aspects
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Nostalgia
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Socialism
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Germany
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Germany
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Germany History
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Unification, 1990
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Germany Economic conditions
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Germany Economic conditions
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Germany History Unification, 1990
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Deutschland
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Vergangenheitsbewältigung
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Sachkultur
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Deutschland
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Deutschland
;
Sozialismus
;
Nostalgie
Abstract:
What happens when an entire modern state's material culture becomes abruptly obsolete? How do ordinary people encounter what remains? In this ethnography, Jonathan Bach examines the afterlife of East Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall, as things and places from that vanished socialist past continue to circulate and shape the politics of memory. He traces the unsettling effects of these unmoored artifacts on the German present, arguing for a rethinking of the role of the everyday as a site of reckoning with difficult pasts. Bach juxtaposes four sites where the stakes of the everyday appear: products commodified as nostalgia, amateur museums dedicated to collecting everyday life under socialism, the "people's palace" that captured the national imagination through its destruction, and the feared and fetishized Berlin Wall. Moving from the local, the intimate, and small to the national, the impersonal, and large, this book's interpenetrating chapters show the unexpected social and political force of the ordinary in the production of memory. "What Remains" offers a unique vantage point on the workings of the everyday in situations of radical discontinuity, contributing to new understandings of postsocialism and the intricate intersection of material remains and memory
Abstract:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- "The taste remains" -- Collecting communism -- Unbuilding -- The wall after the wall -- Epilogue: exit ghost -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Bibliographie: Seite 223-243
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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"The taste remains"
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Collecting communism
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Unbuilding
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The wall after the wall
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Epilogue: exit ghost
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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