TY - BOOK ID - 17601180 TI - Civil society and memory in postwar Germany PY - 2017 SN - 9781107177468 9781316822746 9781316628379 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Memorialization KW - Memorials KW - Social movements KW - War memorials KW - Collective memory KW - Socialism KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Civil society KW - Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) KW - Memory KW - Social history KW - Movements, Social KW - Social psychology KW - Commemorations KW - Historic sites KW - Monuments KW - Memorialisation KW - War monuments KW - Art and war KW - Military parks KW - Soldiers' monuments KW - Descriptive sociology KW - Social conditions KW - History KW - Sociology KW - Social contract KW - Marxism KW - Social democracy KW - Socialist movements KW - Collectivism KW - Anarchism KW - Communism KW - Critical theory KW - Collective remembrance KW - Common memory KW - Cultural memory KW - Emblematic memory KW - Historical memory KW - National memory KW - Public memory KW - Social memory KW - Group identity KW - National characteristics KW - Artistic impact KW - Artistic influence KW - Impact (Literary, artistic, etc.) KW - Literary impact KW - Literary influence KW - Literary tradition KW - Tradition (Literature) KW - Art KW - Influence (Psychology) KW - Literature KW - Intermediality KW - Intertextuality KW - Originality in literature KW - Social aspects KW - Political aspects KW - Germany KW - Politics and government UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17601180 AB - Blending history and social science, this book tracks the role of social movements in shaping German public memory and values since 1945. Drawn from extensive original research, it offers a fresh perspective on the evolution of German democracy through civic confrontation with the violence of its past. Told through the stories of memory activists, the study upends some of the conventional wisdom about modern German political history. An analysis of the decades-long struggle over memory and democracy shows how grassroots actors challenged and then took over public institutions of memorialization. In the process, confrontation of the Holocaust has been pushed to the centre of political culture. In unified Germany, memory politics have shifted again, as activists from East Germany have brought attention to the crimes of the East German state. This book delivers a novel and important contribution to scholarship about post-war Germany and the wider study of memory politics."--Provided by publisher ER -