Outside the "Comfort Zone" : : Performances and Discourses of Privacy in Late Socialist Europe / / ed. by Lukas Raabe, Tatiana Klepikova.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Berndt Olsen, Jon,; Cioltan-Drăghiciu, Andra-Octavia,; Gillespie, David,; Goldstein, Thomas,; Jüttner, Christina,; Klepikova, Tatiana,; Lecke, Mirja,; Oancea, Claudiu,; Raabe, Lukas,; Sadecka, Agnieszka,; Siegelbaum, Lewis H.,; Souch, Irina,; Stańczyk, Xawery,; Stegmann, Natali,
• HerausgeberIn: Klepikova, Tatiana,; Raabe, Lukas,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Rethinking the Cold War , 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 388 p.)

Traditionally, privacy studies have focused on the liberal democratic societies of the global West, whereas non-democratic contexts have played a marginal role in the discussion of the private and public spheres, not in the least because of the political stances of the Cold War era. This volume offers explorations of highly diversified performances and discourses of privacy by various actors which were embedded into the culturally, economically, and politically specific constructions of late socialism in individual states of the Warsaw Pact. While the experience of socialism varied across the Bloc, there were also some reactions to socialism and some reverse responses of socialist regimes to these reactions that one can trace through all states. Contributions to this volume take us across the Eastern Bloc and beyond it—from the Soviet Union, into late socialist Poland, Romania, and East and West Germany. While looking at specific countries, they provide a glimpse into a broader perspective that reaches beyond the borders of individual late socialist states. Together, these articles document a palette of paradigms of the construction and transformation of the private spheres that overcame the national borders of individual states and left an imprint across the Eastern Bloc, thereby contributing to rethinking Cold War rhetoric in regard to these states.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- On Privacy and Its “Comfort Zones” -- Beyond the Everyday: Social Performances of Privacy -- Kak u sebia doma -- Opportunities and Boundaries of Personal Autonomy in East German Tourism -- Negotiating Social Needs -- The Private and The Public in Polish Reportage from Late Socialism -- The Sounds of Youth: From Private Flats to Public Stages -- The Sad Butterflies of the 1980s -- Rocking Out Within Oneself -- “There’s No Silence in a Block of Flats” -- The Elusive Narrated Self: Literary and Cinematic Explorations -- Without Witness -- The Overturned House -- The Private and the Public in the Life Writings of Dissenters in Late Socialist Russia -- On Both Sides of Surveillance and Doctrine: (Re‐)Claiming Agency -- Privacy, Political Agency, and Constructions of the Self in Texts Written by Dissidents -- Privacy as a Weapon? -- Privacy “Detached from Purely Private Tendencies” -- Notes on Contributors -- Name Index -- Subject Index