The Politics of Authenticity -

The Politics of Authenticity

Countercultures and Radical Movements across the Iron Curtain, 1968-1989
Buch | Softcover
308 Seiten
2020
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-824-5 (ISBN)
44,10 inkl. MwSt
This volume shows not only how authenticity came to define a variety of social contexts, but also how it helped to lay the groundwork for the neoliberalism of a subsequent era.
Following the convulsions of 1968, one element uniting many of the disparate social movements that arose across Europe was the pursuit of an elusive “authenticity” that could help activists to understand fundamental truths about themselves—their feelings, aspirations, sexualities, and disappointments. This volume offers a fascinating exploration of the politics of authenticity as they manifested themselves among such groups as Italian leftists, East German lesbian activists, and punks on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Together they show not only how authenticity came to define varied social contexts, but also how it helped to usher in the neoliberalism of a subsequent era.

Joachim C. Häberlen is Assistant Professor of Continental European History at the University of Warwick. He has previously coedited a theme issue on emotions in protest movements for Contemporary European History (2014) and published numerous articles.

Acknowledgements



Introduction

Joachim C. Häberlen and Mark Keck-Szjabel



Chapter 1. Revolution as a Quest for an Authentic Life: The 1960s and 1970s in Italy

Angelo Ventrone



Chapter 2. Authenticity through Transgression: Small Acts of Resentment in Post-1968 Czechoslovakia

Barış Yörümez



Chapter 3. The Political, Emotional, and Therapeutic: Narratives of Consciousness-Raising and Authenticity in the English Women’s Liberation Movement

Kate Mahoney



Chapter 4. A Genealogy of a Politics of Subjectivity: Guy Hocquenghem, Homosexuality, and the Radical Left in Post-1968 France

Antoine Idier



Chapter 5. New Feminism, Women’s Subjectivity, and Feminist Politics: Conceptual Transfers and Activist Inspirations in Yugoslavia in the 1970s and 1980s

Zsófia Lóránd



Chapter 6. Women’s Bodies and Feminist Subjectivities in West Germany

Jane Freeland



Chapter 7. The Rise of a New Consciousness: Lesbian Activism in East Germany in the 1980s

Maria Bühner



Chapter 8. The Italian Movement of 1977 and the Cultural Praxis of the Youthful Proletariat

Danilo Mariscalco



Chapter 9. The Struggle for the Minds of the Youth: The Securitate and Musical Countercultures in Communist Romania

Manuela Marin



Chapter 10. Punk Authenticity: Difference across the Iron Curtain

Jeff Hayton



Chapter 11. Humanitarianism on Stage: Live Aid and the Origins of Humanitarian Pop Music

Benjamin Möckel



Chapter 12. Embedded Abstractions: Authenticity, Aura, and Abject Domesticity in Hamburg’s Hafenstraße

Jake P. Smith



Afterword: Concluding Thoughts: Authenticity’s Visual Turn

Sara Blaylock



Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Protest, Culture & Society
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-78920-824-6 / 1789208246
ISBN-13 978-1-78920-824-5 / 9781789208245
Zustand Neuware
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