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Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin
Contributor(s): Bauer, Karin (Editor), Hosek, Jennifer Ruth (Editor)
ISBN: 1789205220     ISBN-13: 9781789205220
Publisher: Berghahn Books
OUR PRICE:   $37.95  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: July 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Human Geography
- Social Science | Sociology - Urban
- History | Europe - Germany
Dewey: 943.155
Physical Information: 0.86" H x 6" W x 9" (1.23 lbs) 420 pages
Themes:
- Demographic Orientation - Urban
- Cultural Region - Germany
 
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Publisher Description:

Since Unification and the end of the Cold War, Berlin has witnessed a series of uncommonly intense social, political, and cultural transformations. While positioning itself as a creative center populated by young and cosmopolitan global citizens, the "New Berlin" is at the same time a rich site of historical memory, defined inescapably by its past even as it articulates German and European hopes for the future. Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin presents a fascinating cross-section of life in Germany's largest city, revealing the complex ways in which globalization, ethnicity, economics, memory, and national identity inflect how its urban spaces are inhabited and depicted.


Contributor Bio(s): Bauer, Karin: -

Karin Bauer is Professor of German Studies at McGill University and former editor of Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies. Her publications include Adorno's Nietzschean Narratives: Critiques of Ideology, Readings of Wagner and Everybody Talks about the Weather: We Don't, along with numerous articles on critical theory and contemporary German literature and culture.

Hosek, Jennifer Ruth: -

Jennifer Ruth Hosek is Associate Professor of German at Queen's University, affiliated with Film, Gender, and Cultural Studies. Her scholarly projects include the monograph Sun, Sex, and Socialism: Cuba in the German Imaginary, the documentary Rodando en La Habana: Bicycle Stories, articles on a range of topics, and the telecollaborative learning platform www.linguaelive.ca.