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The first major study of the contemporary German debate over
"normalization" and its impact across the range of cultural,
political, economic, intellectual, and historical discourses. This
volume features sixteen thought-provoking essays by renowned
international experts on German society, culture, and politics
that, together, provide a comprehensive study of Germany's
postunification process of "normalization." Essays ranging across a
variety of disciplines including politics, foreign policy,
economics, literature, architecture, and film examine how since
1990 the often contested concept of normalization has become
crucial to Germany'sself-understanding. Despite the apparent
emergence of a "new" Germany, the essays demonstrate that
normalization is still in question, and that perennial concerns --
notably the Nazi past and the legacy of the GDR -- remain central
to political and cultural discourses and affect the country's
efforts to deal with the new challenges of globalization and the
instability and polarization it brings. This is the first major
study in English or German of the impact of the normalization
debate across the range of cultural, political, economic,
intellectual, and historical discourses. Contributors: Stephen
Brockmann, Jeremy Leaman, Sebastian Harnisch and Kerry Longhurst,
Lothar Probst, Simon Ward, Anna Saunders, Annette Seidel Arpaci,
Chris Homewood, Andrew Plowman, Helmut Schmitz, Karoline Von Oppen,
William Collins Donahue, Kathrin Schoedel, Stuart Taberner, Paul
Cooke Stuart Taberner isProfessor of Contemporary German
Literature, Culture, and Society and Paul Cooke is Senior Lecturer
in German Studies, both at the University of Leeds.
Since unification, eastern Germany has witnessed a rapidly changing
memorial landscape, as the fate of former socialist monuments has
been hotly debated and new commemorative projects have met with
fierce controversy. Memorializing the GDR provides the first
in-depth study of this contested arena of public memory,
investigating the individuals and groups devoted to the creation or
destruction of memorials as well as their broader aesthetic,
political, and historical contexts. Emphasizing the
interrelationship of built environment, memory and identity, it
brings to light the conflicting memories of recent German history,
as well as the nuances of national and regional constructions of
identity.
Since unification, eastern Germany has witnessed a rapidly changing
memorial landscape, as the fate of former socialist monuments has
been hotly debated and new commemorative projects have met with
fierce controversy. Memorializing the GDR provides the first
in-depth study of this contested arena of public memory,
investigating the individuals and groups devoted to the creation or
destruction of memorials as well as their broader aesthetic,
political, and historical contexts. Emphasizing the
interrelationship of built environment, memory and identity, it
brings to light the conflicting memories of recent German history,
as well as the nuances of national and regional constructions of
identity.
During the final decade of the German Democratic Republic (GDR),
young citizens found themselves at the heart of a rigorous
programme of socialist patriotic education, yet following the fall
of the Berlin Wall, the emphasis of official state rhetoric,
textbooks and youth activities changed beyond recognition. For the
young generation growing up during this period, 'normality' was
turned on its head, leaving a sense of insecurity and inner
turmoil. Using a combination of archival research and interviews,
together with educational materials and government reports, this
book examines the relationship between young people and their two
successive states in East(ern) Germany between 1979 and 2002. This
unusual time-span straddles the 1989/1990 caesura which often
delimits historical studies, and thus enables not only a detailed
examination of GDR socialisation, but crucially also its influence
in unified Germany. Anna Saunders explores the extent to which a
young generation's loyalties can be officially regulated in the
face of cultural and historical traditions, changing material
conditions and shifting social circumstances, and finds GDR
socialisation to be influential to post-unification loyalties
through its impact on the personal sphere, rather than through the
official sphere of ideological propaganda. At a time of
globalisation, this lucid study not only provides unique insight
into the functioning of the GDR state and its longer-term impact,
but also advances our broader understanding of the ways in which
collective loyalties are formed. It will be of particular interest
to those in the fields of German History and Politics, European
Studies and Sociology. -- .
In 1917, the October Revolution and the adoption of the
revolutionary Mexican Constitution shook the foundations of the
international order in profound, unprecedented and lasting ways.
These events posed fundamental challenges to international law,
unsettling foundational concepts of property, statehood and
non-intervention, and indeed the very nature of law itself. This
collection asks what we might learn about international law from
analysing how its various sub-fields have remembered, forgotten,
imagined, incorporated, rejected or sought to manage the
revolutions of 1917. It shows that those revolutions had
wide-ranging repercussions for the development of laws relating to
the use of force, intervention, human rights, investment, alien
protection and state responsibility, and for the global economy
subsequently enabled by international law and overseen by
international institutions. The varied legacies of 1917 play an
ongoing role in shaping political struggle in the form of
international law.
In 1917, the October Revolution and the adoption of the
revolutionary Mexican Constitution shook the foundations of the
international order in profound, unprecedented and lasting ways.
These events posed fundamental challenges to international law,
unsettling foundational concepts of property, statehood and
non-intervention, and indeed the very nature of law itself. This
collection asks what we might learn about international law from
analysing how its various sub-fields have remembered, forgotten,
imagined, incorporated, rejected or sought to manage the
revolutions of 1917. It shows that those revolutions had
wide-ranging repercussions for the development of laws relating to
the use of force, intervention, human rights, investment, alien
protection and state responsibility, and for the global economy
subsequently enabled by international law and overseen by
international institutions. The varied legacies of 1917 play an
ongoing role in shaping political struggle in the form of
international law.
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