 | What Remains: Everyday Encounters with the Socialist Past in Germany Subjects: Socialism -- Germany -- History; Germany -- History -- Unification 1990; Germany -- Economic conditions; Nostalgia -- Social aspects; Jonathan Bach examines the afterlife of East Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall, as things and places from the socialist past continue to circulate and shape the politics of memory. What Remains traces the effects of these artifacts, arguing for a rethinking of the role of the everyday as a site of reckoning with difficult pasts. Jonathan Bach is associate professor and chair of global studies at the New School. He is the author of Between Sovereignty and Integration: German Foreign Policy and National Identity After 1989 (1999). |
