What Remains? The Dialectical Identities of Eastern Germans /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mushaben, Joyce Marie (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:	XIX, 551 p. 10 illus., 7 illus. in color. text
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Edition:	1st ed. 2023.
Subjects:	Political sociology. Europe, Central > History. Political anthropology. Economic anthropology. Europe > Politics and government. Ethnology. Political Sociology. History of Germany and Central Europe. Political and Economic Anthropology. European Politics. Ethnography.
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18888-6
Format:	Electronic Book

Table of Contents:

Part I. DIMENSIONS OF THE DIALECTICAL IDENTITY
Chapter One Exit, Voice and Loyalty: The Theoretical Parameters: Introduction
2. Selection by Consequences: What it meant to be GDR-German
II. THE DECONSTRUCTION OF GDR-IDENITY
Chapter Three Now out of Never: Exit, Voice and the Revolutionary Bandwagon
Chapter Four Real-existing Socialism: Daily Life, Consumer Culture and “Vitamin B”
III. RECONSTRUCTING EAST-GERMAN IDENTITY: SuBcultures
Chapter Five Heimatgefühl and the Reconfiguration of Civil Society
Chapter Six Conscience of the Nation: Writers, Artisans and the Fate of Intellectuals
Chapter Seven From Losers to Winners, and Back: The Stasi, Pastors and Dissidents
Chapter Eight East German Women: From State Paternalism to Private Patriarchy
Chapter Nine The Anti-Political Identities of "Unified" Youth
Chapter Ten “No Country for Old Men”: The Rise of the AfD
Chapter 11 The Dialectical Identities of Germans United
Epilogue: The Post-Merkel Era
Appendix A: Interview Questionnaire.

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