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Author Sedlmaier, Alexander.

Title Consumption and violence : radical protest in Cold-War West Germany / Alexander Sedlmaier.

Publication Info. Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 2014.

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Series Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany.
Summary "Combining the tools of political, social, cultural, and intellectual history, Consumption and Violence : Radical Protest in Cold-War West Germany explores strategies of legitimization developed by advocates of militant resistance to certain manifestations of consumer capitalism. The book contributes to a more sober evaluation of West German protest movements, not just terrorism, as it refrains from emotional and moral judgments, but takes the protesters' approaches seriously, which, regarding consumer society, had a rational core. Political violence is not presented as the result of individual shortcomings, but emerges in relation to major societal changes, i.e., the unprecedented growth of consumption. This new perspective sheds important light on violence and radical protest in post-war Germany, as previous books have failed to examine to what extent these forms of resistance should be regarded as reactions to changing regimes of provision. Continuing the recently growing interest in the interdependence of countercultures and consumer society, the focus on violence gives the argument a unique twist, making the book thought-provoking and engaging"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Department Stores : Political Protest in the Commercial Sphere -- Neo-Marxist Critiques of Affluent Society : "Need to Break the Rules" -- Consumer Society under Fire : The Militant Targeting of an Abstract Enemy -- Public Transport : Protest against Fare Increases -- The Media : The Anti-Springer Campaign -- Urban Space : The Squatting Movement -- Global Responsibilities : In Search of Consumer Morality and Solidarity.
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
Access Open Access EbpS
Subject Political violence -- Germany (West) -- History.
Protest movements -- Germany (West) -- History.
Radicalism -- Germany (West) -- History.
Government, Resistance to -- Germany (West) -- History.
Consumption (Economics) -- Political aspects -- Germany (West) -- History.
Capitalism -- Political aspects -- Germany (West) -- History.
Social change -- Germany (West) -- History.
Germany (West) -- Politics and government.
Germany (West) -- Social conditions.
Germany (West) -- Economic conditions.
Violence politique -- Allemagne (Ouest) -- Histoire.
Contestation -- Allemagne (Ouest) -- Histoire.
Radicalisme -- Allemagne (Ouest) -- Histoire.
Résistance au gouvernement -- Allemagne (Ouest) -- Histoire.
Allemagne (Ouest) -- Politique et gouvernement.
Allemagne (Ouest) -- Conditions économiques.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
Capitalism -- Political aspects
Consumption (Economics) -- Political aspects
Economic history
Government, Resistance to
Political violence
Politics and government
Protest movements
Radicalism
Social change
Social conditions
Germany (West)
Genre/Form History
Other Form: Print version: Consumption and violence. Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 2014 9780472119417 (DLC) 2014016055
ISBN 9780472120543 (e-book)
0472120549
9780472900947 (electronic bk.)
0472900943 (electronic bk.)
0472119419 (electronic bk.)
9780472119417 (electronic bk.)
9780472036059 (paperback ; acid-free paper)
9780472119417 (hardback ; acid-free paper)
047203605X
Standard No. 10.3998/mpub.6713536
CHNEW 000894952
CHNEW 001035117
CHVBK 556235789
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GBVCP 896610969

 
    
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