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