Lurking Cold War

Life Through Historical Communion

Stavroula Pipyrou (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

172 Seiten

2025
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-83695-242-8 (ISBN)

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Lasting traces of the Cold War continue to shape the social landscape in Italy and Greece. Lurking Cold War critiques the connections between global categories and individual experiences, foregrounding Cold War resonances through materiality, imagination, speculation, and affect – in literature, bureaucracy, and the family. Introducing a theory of methexi, it explores how people and history are brought into communion, blurring the boundaries between the known and unknown, reality and imagination, form and interpretation. The result is an articulation of history that not only reveals the ongoing presence of the Cold War but shows how and why it still matters today.

Stavroula Pipyrou is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Director of the Centre for Minorities Research at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. She has conducted research on politics, governance, child displacement, nationalism and minority vulnerabilities in Italy, Greece, Brazil and Scotland. She is author of The Grecanici of Southern Italy: Governance, Violence, and Minority Politics (Pennsylvania, 2016).

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Deciphering Shadows

Chapter 1. Serendipity: The Bunker

Chapter 2. Agitation: The House

Chapter 3. Transcendence: Crossing the Curtain

Chapter 4. Literary Battles: Reading Across Categories

Chapter 5. Radical Imagination: Knowledge Through Generations

Epilogue: Methexi

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.10.2025
Reihe/Serie	New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations ; 13
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography; Index
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-83695-242-2 / 1836952422
ISBN-13	978-1-83695-242-8 / 9781836952428
Zustand	Neuware