Nazi buildings, Cold War traces and governmentality in post-unification Berlin /

"Bringing together approaches from cultural and urban history, as well as German studies and political theory, Clare Copley's probing study reflects on post-unification responses to iconic Nazi architecture to reveal insights into power, legitimacy and memory politics in the Berlin Republi...

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Main Author: Copley, Clare (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2458260
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: Theoretical approach
  • Chapter 1: Governmentality and the politics of the past
  • Chapter 2: Difficult heritage in Berlin and beyond
  • Part 2: Plurality? Performingpost-authoritarian governmentality at the former Aviation Ministry
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 3: Traces of National Socialism and the GDR in the 'mirror of German history'
  • Chapter 4: Commemorating opposition to Nazism and to the GDR: Harro Schultze-Boysen and 17 June 1953
  • Chapter 5: Negotiating (in)accessibility at a democraticgovernment building
  • Part 3: Rationality? Negotiating post-authoritarian governmentality at the Olympic Stadium
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 6: Responding to the 'racist cult of the body manifested in stone': The Olympic Stadium's sculpture collection
  • Chapter 7: Disentangling the Olympic Stadium's layers: The history trail
  • Chapter 8: (En)Countering the cult of the deadThe Langemarck Hall memorial
  • Part 4: Freedom? Transcending post-authoritarian governmentality at the former Tempelhof Airport
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 9: Closing Tempelhof Airport, Berlin's'gateway to the world'
  • Chapter 10: The Columbia-Haus concentration camp and the forced labourer barracks: Exposing Tempelhof's 'other' pasts
  • Chapter 11: Contesting freedom: The proposed development of the heterotopiaof Tempelhofer Feld
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index