

- Titel
- German Post-Socialist Memory Culture
- Subtitel
- Epistemic Nostalgia
- Auteur
- Amieke Bouma
- Prijs
- € 129,00 excl. BTW
- ISBN
- 9789463726610
- Uitvoering
- Hardback
- Aantal pagina's
- 304
- Taal
- Engels
- Publicatiedatum
- 30 - 07 - 2019
- Afmetingen
- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Partner
- Discipline
- History, Art History, and Archaeology
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List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: Memory and Nostalgia
Chapter 1: The Emotional Factor: Memory, Nostalgia and Politics
Chapter 2: OKV Biographies: Shared Memories and Arguments
Part II: The Ostdeutsches Kuratorium von Verbänden
Chapter 3: The Ostdeutsches Kuratorium von Verbänden:
Origins, Structures, Strategies
Chapter 4:A Complimentary and Overlapping Web:
the OKV as a Social and Political Milieu
Part III: The Maintenance of Communal Continuity in Activism and Outreach
Chapter 5: Legal Activism: ISOR as OKV's Major Lobby Organization
Chapter 6: Left Without Its Party: OKV Attempts at Linkage
IV. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Amieke Bouma
German Post-Socialist Memory Culture
Epistemic Nostalgia
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After German unification, former officers of the GDR state security service united with GDR professors and cultural managers to establish the East German Committee of Associations (OKV). On the basis of encompassing oral history into this complex web of interest organizations and memory clubs, Bouma argues that these activists are driven by an epistemic nostalgia: a longing for the time when their political understanding of the world was seemingly unchallenged. Far from constituting a ‘second life of the Stasi’, the main goal of OKV associations has been to validate the personal biographies of their activists, against the now prevalent view that the GDR was a ‘state of injustice’. While the OKV quickly adapted to the new legal procedures in post-socialist Germany, their staunch defence of the GDR heritage complicates their relation to SED successor party Die Linke and other radical left parties and associations, even when they share practical goals.
Auteur
Amieke Bouma
Amieke Bouma is lecturer in History at the University of Amsterdam. Her research interests include post-socialist historiography and radical left politics in Europe.