Amnesiopolis

Amnesiopolis

Modernity, Space, and Memory in East Germany

Rubin, Eli (Department of History, Western Michigan University)

Oxford University Press

02/2016

208

Dura

Inglês

9780198732266

15 a 20 dias

Identical concrete housing blocks are an iconic legacy of life behind the Iron Curtain. Amnesiopolis studies the construction of Marzahn, the largest prefabricated housing project in East Germany, asking whether a move from 19th century slums to functional socialist housing offered a radical break from Germany's individual and collective pasts.
1. Planning Utopia: The Housing Program, Berlin, and Marzahn ; 2. Moonscape on the Mark: Socialism, Modernity and the Construction of a New World ; 3. Rainbows and Communism: Rupture in the Material, Sensory and Mnemonic Worlds of Marzahn's New Residents ; 4. Growing With Marzahn: Childhood, Community, and the Space of Socialism's Future ; 5. Plattenbau Panopticon: The Stasi, Surveillance, and Plattensiedlungen
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