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Author Sedlmaier, Alexander

Title Consumption and violence : radical protest in Cold-War West Germany / Alexander Sedlmaier
Published Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource
Series Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany.
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
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
Notes This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
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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
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
SUBJECT Germany (West) -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054674
Germany (West) -- Social conditions
Germany (West) -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054670
Subject Germany (West)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020707276
ISBN 9780472120543
0472120549
9780472900947
0472900943
0472119419
9780472119417