Ostalgy in Flux? Transformations of the concept reflected in the case of (East) Germany
The contribution focuses on the origin, genesis and transformation of (n)ostalgy in the new German Bundesländer. It focuses on the political-ideological, life biography, societal and economic frame of ostalgy and presents this phaenomenon as a general East-Central European feature. Later, it specifi...
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| description | The contribution focuses on the origin, genesis and transformation of (n)ostalgy in the new German Bundesländer. It focuses on the political-ideological, life biography, societal and economic frame of ostalgy and presents this phaenomenon as a general East-Central European feature. Later, it specifically analyses the East German case presenting and analysing the uniqueness of this case. The intra-German discourse is used as the main shape for such analysis, and the bipolarisation of the discourse and the stereotypes used. In the last analytical part we present the transmission of ostalgic supporters of the successor Party of Democratic Socialism towards the new radical party Alternative for Germany, showing the overlap of ostalgy as the socio-economic and ideo-political background with the new forms of anti-liberal and nativist stances. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4edf10e1ab05454c9c723fc2c1c3544f2024-03-26T08:56:03ZcesSciendoPolitics in Central Europe2787-90382023-03-01191436010.2478/pce-2023-0003Ostalgy in Flux? Transformations of the concept reflected in the case of (East) GermanyKörfer Petr01PhD student at the Department of Political Science and Anglophone Studies, Metropolitan University Prague.The contribution focuses on the origin, genesis and transformation of (n)ostalgy in the new German Bundesländer. It focuses on the political-ideological, life biography, societal and economic frame of ostalgy and presents this phaenomenon as a general East-Central European feature. Later, it specifically analyses the East German case presenting and analysing the uniqueness of this case. The intra-German discourse is used as the main shape for such analysis, and the bipolarisation of the discourse and the stereotypes used. In the last analytical part we present the transmission of ostalgic supporters of the successor Party of Democratic Socialism towards the new radical party Alternative for Germany, showing the overlap of ostalgy as the socio-economic and ideo-political background with the new forms of anti-liberal and nativist stances.https://doi.org/10.2478/pce-2023-0003nostalgiaostalgypost-communismeast germanycounter-cosmopolitanism |
| spellingShingle | Körfer Petr Ostalgy in Flux? Transformations of the concept reflected in the case of (East) Germany Politics in Central Europe nostalgia ostalgy post-communism east germany counter-cosmopolitanism |
| title | Ostalgy in Flux? Transformations of the concept reflected in the case of (East) Germany |
| title_full | Ostalgy in Flux? Transformations of the concept reflected in the case of (East) Germany |
| title_fullStr | Ostalgy in Flux? Transformations of the concept reflected in the case of (East) Germany |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ostalgy in Flux? Transformations of the concept reflected in the case of (East) Germany |
| title_short | Ostalgy in Flux? Transformations of the concept reflected in the case of (East) Germany |
| title_sort | ostalgy in flux transformations of the concept reflected in the case of east germany |
| topic | nostalgia ostalgy post-communism east germany counter-cosmopolitanism |
| url | https://doi.org/10.2478/pce-2023-0003 |
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