Narratives in the Making (eBook)

Writing the East German Past in the Democratic Present

Anselma Gallinat (Autor)

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2016
242 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-303-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Despite the three decades that have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the historical narrative of East Germany is hardly fixed in public memory, as German society continues to grapple with the legacies of the Cold War. This fascinating ethnography looks at two very different types of local institutions in one eastern German state that take divergent approaches to those legacies: while publicly funded organizations reliably cast the GDR as a dictatorship, a main regional newspaper offers a more ambivalent perspective colored by the experiences and concerns of its readers. As author Anselma Gallinat shows, such memory work initially undertaken after fundamental regime change inevitably shapes citizenship and democracy in the present.

Autor

Anselma Gallinat is a Reader in Social Anthropology at Newcastle University. She is the co-editor of The Ethnographic Self as Resource with Peter Collins (Berghahn 2013) and the author of numerous articles, which have appeared in Identities, Social Anthropology, and Ethnos, among others.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.11.2016
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Anthropology (General) • History: 20th Century to Present • History: 20th Century to Present, Anthropology (General), Memory Studies • Memory Studies • Postwar History
• ISBN-10: 1-78533-303-8 / 1785333038
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78533-303-3 / 9781785333033