Dear Colleague,We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of German Politics and Society has been published by Berghahn Journals. This special double issue is titled The Importance of Being German: Narratives and Identities in the Berlin Republic. The articles continue a cross-disciplinary conversation that began as part of a three-year research project funded by the German Academic Service (DAAD) at the University of Birmingham. The contributions in this volume suggest worldviews, ways of being, and ways of representing Germany to the world.
Current Issue: Volume 33, Issue 1–2, Spring/Summer 2015
Special Issue: The Importance of Being German: Narratives and Identities in the Berlin Republic
Introduction
The Importance of Being German: Narratives and Identities in the Berlin RepublicJoanne Sayner, Isabelle Hertner, and Sarah Colvin<http://bit.ly/1KcU7IN>
Articles
Germany and Its Eurozone Crisis Policy: The Impact of the Countrys Ordoliberal HeritageRainer Hillebrand<http://bit.ly/1QQ8S8g>
Has Germany Fallen out of Love with Europe? The Eurozone Crisis and the Normalization of Germanys European IdentityCharlotte Galpin<http://bit.ly/1KcUdQx>
Germanys Strategic Narrative of the Eurozone CrisisIsabelle Hertner and Alister Miskimmon<http://bit.ly/1Nic4Eh>
Under Pressure? The Anglicisms Debate in Contemporary Germany as a Barometer of German National Identity TodayWilliam Dodd<http://bit.ly/1Kas5fl>
The Language Question in Contemporary Germany: The Challenges of MultilingualismPatrick Stevenson<http://bit.ly/1dgqesx>
Migrant Writing and the Re-Imagined Community: Discourses of Inclusion/ExclusionMáiréad Nic Craith<http://bit.ly/1eHu2Vn>
Tendentiousness and Topicality: Buchenwald and Antifascism as Sites of GDR MemoryHelmut Peitsch and Joanne Sayner<http://bit.ly/1dgqlnY>
(Extra)ordinary Life: The Rhetoric of Representing the Socialist Everyday after UnificationSara Jones<http://bit.ly/1BARX2A>
Collecting Communism: Private Museums of Everyday Life under Socialism in Former East GermanyJonathan Bach<http://bit.ly/1LBNwEQ>
Berlin as a Terrain of Cultural Policy: Outline of a StruggleWilfried van der Will<http://bit.ly/1eHufrE>
Picturing the New Berlin: Filmic Representations of the Post-Unification CapitalRob Burns<http://bit.ly/1LnE9Ll>
Violence in the Age of Digital Reproducibility: Political Form in Valeska Grisebachs Longing (Sehnsucht) (2006)Leila Mukhida<http://bit.ly/1JiVrtm>