Ecologies of Affect offers a synthetic introduction to the felt dynamics of cities and the
character of places. The contributors capture the significance of affects including desire …

The Federal Republic of Germany—both before and after 1989—has been influenced
deeply by collective memories of the Nazi period and the Holocaust, a seemingly" …

At first glance, romance seems an improbable angle from which to write a cultural history of
the German Democratic Republic. By most accounts the GDR was among the most dour and …

Communism's Public Sphere explores the political role of cultural spaces in the Eastern
Bloc. Under communist regimes that banned free speech, political discussions shifted to …

Since the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, processes of remembering the GDR have been widely
discussed in unified Germany and the idea of Ostalgie has become a key strand in these …

Germans are inordinately preoccupied with the question of national integration. From the
Kulturkampf to the Weimar Republic to the separation of East and West, social fractiousness …

Der vorliegende Beitrag diskutiert die Rolle von Ostalgie im Diskurs über die DDR-
Vergangenheit anhand von fünf Filmbeispielen mit dem Ziel, diese auf einem Kontinuum …

This article investigates the trend represented by the recent TV series This Is England 86
(2010), Deutschland 83 (2015) and 1992 (2015). It analyses retro in the series as enabling …

Horton compares the ways in which North Korean refugees in South Korea and East
Germans after reunification have been regarded as ignorant, inferior people by their …

Private consumption may be seen both as a means of individual social legitimation and as
an expression of collective values and identities. As such, consumer behaviour may …