Berlin, Alexanderplatz Po-hsi Chen

Berlin, Alexanderplatz Po-hsi ChenA benchmark study in the changing field of urban anthropology, Berlin, Alexanderplatz is an ethnographic examination of the rapid transformation of the unified Berlin. Through a captivating account of the controversy around this symbolic public square in East Berlin, the book raises acute questions about expertise, citizenship, government and belonging. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the city administration bureaus, developers offices, citizen

" reshaping individuals to identify with common interests instead of their own selfish interests

which collectively and singularly aim to challenge the conventions of connectivity and relationality in social theory and description through a serious and crucially ethnographic reflection on the category of ‘detachment’

This new history of Southend describes its growth as a town and resort in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

but also shape culture

using national longitudinal data on a generation of women in the United States

Rita Sommers-Flanagan

the Radical Citizens' Party

Examining William Blake's poetry in relation to the mythographic tradition of the eighteenth century and emphasizing the British discovery of Hindu literature

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For anyone interested in the development of the national master narrative in more recent German historiography

From the promise of material goods to the profusion of despair

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