Material Fantasies
| Titel: | Material Fantasies : Expectations of the Western Consumer World among the East Germans |
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| Veröffentlicht: | [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Amsterdam University Press, 2012 |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (284 p.) |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Technology and European History Series ; 6 |
| RVK-Notation: | |
| ISBN: | 9789089644008 |
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- Introduction
- p. 11
- Western Prosperity as Consolation
- p. 11
- Consumption, Identity, and Fantasy
- p. 16
- Life in Dictatorial Societies
- p. 21
- 1
- Fieldwork
- p. 31
- Reactions to My Presence
- p. 32
- Material Culture and Tell-Tale One-Liners
- p. 37
- Generalization, Differentiation
- p. 43
- 2
- Germany 1945: A Country in Ruins
- p. 47
- Material and Social Trauma
- p. 47
- In Search of a Hold
- p. 56
- 3
- The GDR: Future Promises
- p. 63
- The Past Rewritten
- p. 64
- A New Future: Material Well-Being
- p. 70
- 4
- Material Realizations
- p. 75
- Severe, Rational, and Centrally Planned
- p. 75
- "Far Too Modern for our People," and Economic Gaps
- p. 86
- Queuing and Mutual Equality
- p. 97
- 5
- The East German Dictatorship
- p. 107
- Theorizing Dictatorship
- p. 109
- Local Conversations on Dictatorship
- p. 117
- Irony, a Caring State, and the Nische
- p. 124
- 6
- Silenced Pasts
- p. 135
- Different Perspectives and Jokes about the Stasi
- p. 137
- The Stasi's Methods and the Taboo on More
- p. 144
- Egalitarianism, Crab Antics, and Adjustment
- p. 154
- 7
- Western Promise
- p. 161
- Irresistible Prosperity
- p. 162
- East Germans' Identification with the West
- p. 172
- The Material as Fulfillment
- p. 178
- 8
- Shattered Illusions
- p. 183
- The Wende
- p. 184
- East Germans' Dissatisfaction
- p. 193
- Three Reasons for East German Despondency
- p. 198
- Conclusion
- p. 215
- Fantasy
- p. 215
- Hegemony
- p. 223
- Fetishism, Commodoties, and the Senses
- p. 229
- Notes
- p. 237
- Bibliography
- p. 268
- Index
- p. 277
