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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788182803321

Autore

Simpson Patricia Anne <1958->

Titolo

Cultures of violence in the new German street / / Patricia Anne Simpson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison [New Jersey] : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, , [2012]

©2012

ISBN

1-61147-456-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Disciplina

303.60943

Soggetti

Violence - Germany

Popular culture - Germany

Germany Social conditions 21st century

Germany Social policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-230) and index.

Includes filmography: page 231.

Nota di contenuto

Cultures Of Violence In The New German Street; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction Cultures of Violence in the New German Street; Chapter 1 Fighting for the Streets; Chapter 2 Chaos Days; Chapter 3 Primal Scenes: Signatures of Violence from the Right; Chapter 4 German Vernaculars; Chapter 5 Street Signs and Cultural Corridors; Chapter 6 Syntax of the Street: New Fraternities and the Concept of Home; Conclusion Europe and Transnational Violence; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the street as both a material and ideological space constructed by cultural anxieties and affiliations. The early twenty-first century brought a new cartography of the street that inscribes a narrative of identity and difference, engaging discources of political, economic, and ethnic subjectivities.