Material fantasies: expectations of the Western consumer world among the East Germans
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Amsterdam University Press
2012
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| Schriftenreihe: | Technology and European history series
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| Beschreibung: | "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 Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-275) and index Fieldwork -- - Reactions to my presence -- - Material culture and tell-tale one-liners -- - Generalization, differentiation -- - Germany 1945: a country in ruins -- - material and social trauma -- - In search of a hold -- - The GDR: future promises -- - The past rewritten -- - A new future: material well-being -- - Material realizations -- - Severe, rational and centrally planned -- - "Far too modern for our people," and economic gaps -- - Queuing and mutual equality -- - The east German dictatorship -- - Theorizing dictatorship -- - Local conversations on dictatorship -- - Irony, a caring state, and the Nische -- - Silenced pasts -- - Different perspectives and jokes about the stasi -- - The stasi's methods and the taboo on more -- - Egalitarianism, crab antics, and adjustment -- - Western promise -- - Irresistible prosperity -- - East Germans' identification with the west -- - The material as fulfillment -- - Shattered illusions -- - The wende -- - East Germans' dissatisfaction -- - Three reasons for east German despondency -- - Conclusion |
| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (280 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9048515653 9048515661 9789048515653 9789048515660 |
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| spelling | Veenis, Milena Verfasser aut Material fantasies expectations of the Western consumer world among the East Germans Milena Veenis Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2012 1 Online-Ressource (280 p.) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Technology and European history series 6 "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 Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-275) and index Fieldwork -- - Reactions to my presence -- - Material culture and tell-tale one-liners -- - Generalization, differentiation -- - Germany 1945: a country in ruins -- - material and social trauma -- - In search of a hold -- - The GDR: future promises -- - The past rewritten -- - A new future: material well-being -- - Material realizations -- - Severe, rational and centrally planned -- - "Far too modern for our people," and economic gaps -- - Queuing and mutual equality -- - The east German dictatorship -- - Theorizing dictatorship -- - Local conversations on dictatorship -- - Irony, a caring state, and the Nische -- - Silenced pasts -- - Different perspectives and jokes about the stasi -- - The stasi's methods and the taboo on more -- - Egalitarianism, crab antics, and adjustment -- - Western promise -- - Irresistible prosperity -- - East Germans' identification with the west -- - The material as fulfillment -- - Shattered illusions -- - The wende -- - East Germans' dissatisfaction -- - Three reasons for east German despondency -- - Conclusion Unification of Germany (1990) fast Since 1990 fast Geschichte gnd rswk-swf POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture bisacsh Consumption (Economics) fast Post-communism fast Quality of life fast International relations fast Social history fast HISTORY / General bisacsh Verbrauch gnd Internationale Politik Sozialgeschichte Post-communism Germany (East) Consumption (Economics) Germany (East) Quality of life Germany (West) Quality of life Germany (East) Erwartung (DE-588)4015434-8 gnd rswk-swf Lebensqualität (DE-588)4034922-6 gnd rswk-swf Verbraucherverhalten (DE-588)4062644-1 gnd rswk-swf Lebensbedingungen (DE-588)4130642-9 gnd rswk-swf Beziehung (DE-588)4145198-3 gnd rswk-swf Deutschland DDR (DE-588)4011890-3 gnd rswk-swf Deutschland Östliche Länder (DE-588)4252579-2 gnd rswk-swf Westdeutschland (DE-588)4079211-0 gnd rswk-swf Westdeutschland (DE-588)4079211-0 g Deutschland DDR (DE-588)4011890-3 g Deutschland Östliche Länder (DE-588)4252579-2 g Verbraucherverhalten (DE-588)4062644-1 s Beziehung (DE-588)4145198-3 s Erwartung (DE-588)4015434-8 s Geschichte z 1\p DE-604 Lebensbedingungen (DE-588)4130642-9 s Lebensqualität (DE-588)4034922-6 s 2\p DE-604 Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback 90-8964-400-8 Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback 978-90-8964-400-8 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=654451 Aggregator Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 2\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
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| title_auth | Material fantasies expectations of the Western consumer world among the East Germans |
| title_exact_search | Material fantasies expectations of the Western consumer world among the East Germans |
| title_full | Material fantasies expectations of the Western consumer world among the East Germans Milena Veenis |
| title_fullStr | Material fantasies expectations of the Western consumer world among the East Germans Milena Veenis |
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| title_short | Material fantasies |
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