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What Remains - Everyday Encounters with the Socialist Past in Germany (Paperback) Loot Price: R516
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What Remains - Everyday Encounters with the Socialist Past in Germany (Paperback): Jonathan Bach

What Remains - Everyday Encounters with the Socialist Past in Germany (Paperback)

Jonathan Bach

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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. What Remains 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 the small to the national, the impersonal, and the 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.

General

Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: August 2019
Authors: Jonathan Bach (Associate Professor)
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-18271-3
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture
Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
Books > History > European history > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
LSN: 0-231-18271-6
Barcode: 9780231182713

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