Download or read book Cultural Tourism and Social Resilience Discourse of Historic Cities in East Germany the Case of Gotha and Eisenach written by Younkyoung Sung and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rethinking Cultural Tourism written by Greg Richards and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful book reappraises how traditional high culture attractions have been supplemented by popular culture events, contemporary creativity and everyday life through inventive styles of tourism. Greg Richards draws on over three decades of research to provide a new approach to the topic, combining practice and interaction ritual theories and developing a model of cultural tourism as a social practice.
Download or read book Preservation and National Belonging in Eastern Germany written by J. James and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on cultural anthropology and cultural studies, this book sheds new light on the everyday politics of heritage and memory by illuminating local, everyday engagements with Germanness through heritage fetishism, claims to hometown belonging, and the performative appropriation of cultural property.
Download or read book The People s Own Landscape written by Scott Moranda and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: East Germany’s Socialist Unity Party aimed to placate a public well aware of the higher standards of living enjoyed elsewhere by encouraging them to participate in outdoor activities and take vacations in the countryside. Scott Moranda considers East Germany’s rural landscapes from the perspective of both technical experts (landscape architects, biologists, and physicians) who hoped to dictate how vacationers interacted with nature, and the vacationers themselves, whose outdoor experience shaped their understanding of environmental change. As authorities eliminated traditional tourist and nature conservation organizations, dissident conservationists demanded better protection of natural spaces. At the same time, many East Germans shared their government’s expectations for economic development that had real consequences for the land. By the 1980s, environmentalists saw themselves as outsiders struggling against the state and a public that had embraced mainstream ideas about limitless economic growth and material pleasures.
Download or read book Imagining Restoration written by Jason Carl James and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cities Sin and Social Reform in Imperial Germany written by Andrew Lees and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important examination of the colorful histories of urbanization and social reform in Imperial Germany
Download or read book Don t Need No Thought Control written by Gerd Horten and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fall of the Berlin Wall is typically understood as the culmination of political-economic trends that fatally weakened the East German state. Meanwhile, comparatively little attention has been paid to the cultural dimension of these dramatic events, particularly the role played by Western mass media and consumer culture. With a focus on the 1970s and 1980s, Don’t Need No Thought Control explores the dynamic interplay of popular unrest, intensifying economic crises, and cultural policies under Erich Honecker. It shows how the widespread influence of (and public demands for) Western cultural products forced GDR leaders into a series of grudging accommodations that undermined state power to a hitherto underappreciated extent.
Download or read book What Remains what Lies Ahead written by Hermann Glaser and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transnationalism and the German City written by J. Diefendorf and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too often, scholars treat transnationalism as a conflict in which the local, regional, and national give way to globalized identity. As these varied studies of German cities show, though, the urban environment is actually a site of trans-localism that is not merely oppositional, but that adapts itself dialectically to the forces of globalization.
Download or read book The Defortification of the German City 1689 1866 written by Yair Mintzker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-09 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early modern period, all German cities were fortified places. Because contemporary jurists have defined 'city' as a coherent social body in a protected place, the urban environment had to be physically separate from the surrounding countryside. This separation was crucial to guaranteeing the city's commercial, political and legal privileges. Fortifications were therefore essential for any settlement to be termed a city. This book tells the story of German cities' metamorphoses from walled to de-fortified places between 1689 and 1866. Using a wealth of original sources, The Defortification of the German City, 1689–1866 discusses one of the most significant moments in the emergence of the modern city: the dramatic and often traumatic demolition of the city's centuries-old fortifications and the creation of the open city.
Download or read book Long Term Persistence written by Marcus Jacob and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by scholarship on the free city-state experience in North Italy at the turn of the first millennium, I analyze whether present-day levels of social capital and economic performance in German cities are also explicable by reference to social patterns that emerged during a period of independence several hundred years ago. My findings suggest that the medieval experience of independence as a Free or Imperial city has a positive long-term effect via social capital on economic performance in German cities, but that this effect is statistically less significant than the effect obtained for Italy. I show that the comparably weaker effect of the independence experience in Germany is explicable with reference to two historical phenomena: a) an almost simultaneous historical experience of a transformative impact on the return to cooperation and social capital formation in the first half of the second millennium in towns and cities of the Hanseatic League, of which the large majority never became independent, and b) East Germany's oppressive regime experience in the 20th century, which proved a shock strong enough to 'reformat' the social capital landscape in East Germany that distant history had originally shaped.
Download or read book Amnesiopolis written by Eli Rubin and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amnesiopolis explores the construction of Marzahn, the largest prefabricated housing project in East Germany, built on the outskirts of East Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s, and touted by the regime as the future of socialism. It also focuses especially on the experience of East Germans who moved, often from crumbling slums left over as a legacy of the nineteenth century, into this radically new place, one defined by pure functionality and rationality; a material manifestation of the utopian promise of socialism.
Download or read book Enhancing Competitiveness of V4 Historic Cities to Develop Tourism written by Robert Faracik and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recasting East Germany written by Christopher Flockton and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Space and Social Theory written by Andrzej J L Zieleniec and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2007-10-29 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of the spatial dimension of the structure, organization and experience of social relations is fundamental for sociological analysis and understanding. Space and Social Theory is an essential primer on the theories of space and inherent spatiality, guiding readers through the contributions of key and influential theorists: Marx, Simmel, Lefebvre, Harvey and Foucault. Giving an essential and accessible overview of social theories of space, this books shows why it matters to understand these theorists spatially. It will be of interest to upper level students and researchers of social theory, urban sociology, urban studies, human geography, and urban politics.
Download or read book Senses of Place Senses of Time written by G.J. Ashworth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together case studies from Ireland, the Netherlands, Canada, Germany and Mexico, this book examines the link between senses of place and senses of time. It suggests that not only do place identities change through time, but imagined pasts also provide resources which the present selects and packages for its own contemporary purposes and for forwarding to imagined futures. The reasons behind the creation of place image are also explored, setting them within political and social contexts. In its three main sections - Heritage in the Creation of Senses of Place; Heritage and Conflicting Identities; and Heritage and the Creation of Senses of Place - the book examines the creation of place identities at the urban, rural, regional and international scales. It questions how senses of place interact with senses of ethnic/cultural identity, what the roles of government, media, residents and tourists are in creating senses of place, and how and why all these variables change through time.
Download or read book Architectural Conservation written by Leo Schmidt and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
