Ruptures in the Everyday: Views of Modern Germany from the Ground

Ruptures in the Everyday: Views of Modern Germany from the Ground

Ruptures in the Everyday: Views of Modern Germany from the Ground

Ruptures in the Everyday: Views of Modern Germany from the Ground

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Overview

During the twentieth century, Germans experienced a long series of major and often violent disruptions in their everyday lives. Such chronic instability and precipitous change made it difficult for them to make sense of their lives as coherent stories—and for scholars to reconstruct them in retrospect. Ruptures in the Everyday brings together an international team of twenty-six researchers from across German studies to craft such a narrative. This collectively authored work of integrative scholarship investigates Alltag through the lens of fragmentary anecdotes from everyday life in modern Germany. Across ten intellectually adventurous chapters, this book explores the self, society, families, objects, institutions, policies, violence, and authority in modern Germany neither from a top-down nor bottom-up perspective, but focused squarely on everyday dynamics at work “on the ground.”


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781785335334
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Publication date: 07/01/2017
Series: Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association , #15
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 342
File size: 7 MB

About the Author

Andrew Stuart Bergerson is Professor of History and Public Humanities at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He is the author of Ordinary Germans in Extraordinary Times: the Nazi Revolution in Hildesheim (2004); and The Happy Burden of History: From Sovereign Impunity to Historical Responsibility (2011) with K. Scott Baker, Clancy Martin, and Steve Ostovich. He is currently one of the project leaders for Trug und Schein: Ein Briefwechsel (www.trugundschein.org), an intermedial project in the public humanities.


Leonard Schmieding is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Global and Trans-Regional History at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC. He received his doctorate in history from the University of Leipzig in 2011 with a dissertation on hip-hop culture in the German Democratic Republic that has since been published as “Das ist unsere Party:” HipHop in der DDR (2014). He has curated a number of public history programs in Germany and the United States, and is currently researching immigrant food cultures among Germans in San Francisco.


Ruptures in the Everyday was jointly written by ATG26, a scholarly collective comprising the following authors:
Jonathan Bach, Andrew Stuart Bergerson (lead author), Susanne Beer, Mark E. Blum, Michaela Christ, Cristina Cuevas-Wolf, Mary Fulbrook, Eva Giloi, Thomas Gurr, Jason Johnson, Craig Koslofsky, Dani Kranz, Phil Leask, Wendy Lower, Elissa Mailänder, Josie McLellan, Alexandra Oeser, Steve Ostovich, Will Rall, Leonard Schmieding (lead author), Johannes Schwartz, Sara Ann Sewell, Paul Steege, Maximilian Strnad, Julia Timpe, Heléna Tóth

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations

Chapter 1. Wende
Chapter 2. Self
Chapter 3. Interpersonal Relationships
Chapter 4. Families
Chapter 5. Objects
Chapter 6. Institutions
Chapter 7. Anti-Semitism
Chapter 8. Violent Worlds
Chapter 9. Taking Place
Chapter 10. Telling Stories

References    
Authors    
Index

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