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What Remains: Everyday Encounters with the Socialist Past in Germany
Jonathan Bach
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Description for What Remains: Everyday Encounters with the Socialist Past in Germany
Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 3 maps, 46 black & white illustrations, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1DVU; HBJD; JFCA; JFSG; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231182706
SKU
V9780231182706
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About Jonathan Bach
Jonathan Bach is associate professor and chair of global studies at The New School. He is the author of Between Sovereignty and Integration: German Foreign Policy and National Identity After 1989 (1999).
Reviews for What Remains: Everyday Encounters with the Socialist Past in Germany
What Remains is a perceptive and - perhaps more crucially - a very sympathetic account of multiple ways through which ordinary people try to take hold of their politically controversial past. Bach creates an intricate but highly accessible story about the past that is not quite gone.
Serguei Oushakine, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Slavic Languages and Literatures at ... Read more
Serguei Oushakine, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Slavic Languages and Literatures at ... Read more