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_aVeenis, Milena. _e1 |
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_aMaterial fantasies _bexpectations of the Western consumer world among the East Germans / _cMilena Veenis. |
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_aAmsterdam : _bAmsterdam University Press, _c(c)2012. |
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_a1 online resource (280 pages) : _billustrations. |
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_aTechnology and European history series ; _v6 |
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520 | 0 | _a"This study of East German fantasies of material abundance across the border, both before and after the fall of communism, shows the close and intricate relation between ideology and fantasy in upholding social life. In 1989, news broadcasts all over the world were dominated for weeks by images of East Germans crossing the Berlin Wall to West Germany. The images, representing the fall of communism and the democratic will of the people, also showed East Germans' excitement at finally being able to enter the western consumer paradise. But what exactly had they expected to find on the other side of the Wall? Why did they shed tears of joy when for the first time in their lives, they stepped inside West German shops? And why were they prepared to pay more than 10 percent of their average monthly wage for a pineapple? Drawing on fifteen months of research in the fast-changing post-communist East Germany, Veenis unravels the perennial truths about the interrelationships of fantasies of material wealth, personal fulfillment and social cohesion. She argues persuasively that the far-fetched socialist and capitalist promises of consumption as the road to ultimate well-being, the partial realization and partial corruption thereof, the implicit social and psychological interests underlying the politicized promises in both countries form the breeding ground for the development of materialist, cargo-cult-like fantasies, in which material well-being came to be seen as the place of "fulfillment and ultimate arrival"."--Publisher's website. | |
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_aFieldwork ; Reactions to my presence ; Material culture and tell-tale one-liners ; Generalization, differentiation. -- _tGermany 1945: a country in ruins ; material and social trauma ; In search of a hold. -- _tThe GDR: future promises ; The past rewritten ; A new future: material well-being. -- _tMaterial realizations ; Severe, rational and centrally planned ; "Far too modern for our people," and economic gaps ; Queuing and mutual equality. -- _tThe east German dictatorship ; Theorizing dictatorship ; Local conversations on dictatorship ; Irony, a caring state, and the Nische. -- _tSilenced pasts ; Different perspectives and jokes about the stasi ; The stasi's methods and the taboo on more ; Egalitarianism, crab antics, and adjustment. -- _tWestern promise ; Irresistible prosperity ; East Germans' identification with the west ; The material as fulfillment. -- _tShattered illusions ; The wende ; East Germans' dissatisfaction ; Three reasons for east German despondency. -- _tConclusion. |
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_aPost-communism _zGermany (East) |
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_aConsumption (Economics) _zGermany (East) |
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_aQuality of life _zGermany (West) |
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_aQuality of life _zGermany (East) |
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_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=654451&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password |
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