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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"East Germany"”.
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Governing the future of a shrinking city: Hoyerswerda, East Germany
… of population loss and economic decline in East Germany around the turn of the 21st century. Different practices, policies, academic research and public debates developed, which were mainly concerned with how to deal with this problem. However, the emergence of shrinkage as an urban problem …
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A culture of appropriation : strategies of temporary reuse in East Germany
… and urbanism in the realm of the former East Germany.
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Sports, Mass Mobilization, and the Everyday Culture of Socialism in East Germany
… explores how the communist government of East Germany used sports to build socialism. Sports had traditionally enjoyed widespread popularity in Germany, and communist leaders sought to instrumentalize this popularity towards socialist ends. They believed that sports could produce efficient …
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The Politics of Social Networks : Interpersonal Trust and Institutional Change in Post-Communist East Germany
… how, during the 1989/1990 democratization of East Germany, pre-existing social network ties guided informal cooperation, recruitment and programmatic development in the reformation of the East German communist party SED into the PDS. With the help of interviews, auto-biographies and documents, …
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Alienated Social Reproduction: A study on the politics of neoliberal urban restructuring in Leipzig, East Germany
… on political polarization in Leipzig, East Germany, and demonstrates how in turn the local, politicized relations of tenants marked by solidarities, fragmentation and authoritarianism, impact urban restructuring. Uncovering the interrelation of housing privatization and financialization …
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Barriers to change and integration in foreign M and As within East Germany : a qualitative study
… International M&As in rapidly transforming East Germany offer attractive possibilities for research as change in the firm, and resistance to it, takes place against a backdrop of external, revolutionary societal change as well as internal, national and organisational clashes. The research …
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Shop Floor Politics Under Socialism: Worker Identity, Rationalization, and Company Culture in (East) Germany, 1920--1996
… German labor history and rationalization, East Germany's longevity as a state despite the massive discontent of its citizens, and about the validity of the social-democratic interpretation of German history.
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West Germany and Namibia's path to independence, 1969-1990: foreign policy and rivalry with East Germany
This thesis examines West Germany's relationship with Namibia between 1969 and 1990. It investigates West German foreign policy towards Namibia, at the height of the Namibian liberation struggle, against the backdrop of East and West German rivalry. It brings to light that the post-war division of …
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Patterns of elite-mass conflict in Soviet-type systems: 1948-1989
Following the political upheavals across Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union throughout 1989, scholars of communist political systems began to reassess major theories concerning the durability of such regimes. This dissertation represents an effort to establish patterns of elite and mass political …
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The Valuation of Literature: Triangulating the Rhetorical with the Economic Metaphor
… of nineteenth-century America, Communist East Germany, WWII America, and 9/11 America, however, the causes don't correlate with the effects they theoretically predict. This disjunction suggests a re-examination of these three theories and possibly the Marxist basis which they share. I …
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Urban segregation | clichy-sous-bois | paris
… a quick look at special housing examples in east-germany and vienna. it concludes with a summary and comparison of researched information and a possible proposal to improve the conditions in clichy-sous-bois.
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Metamorphosis and fairy tale tropes in Christa Wolf’s Patterns of Childhood
<p>This study is a sociohistorical analysis of East German writer Christa Wolf’s use of fairy tale tropes in her novel Patterns of Childhood, first published in German in 1976 in East Germany as Kindheitsmuster. Wolf uses fairy tale tropes to explore themes that she could not write about openly …
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Britain's exploitation of Occupied Germany for scientific and technical intelligence on the Soviet Union
… Its exploitation of Germans and its Zone of Germany in its war-related research and development and the reconstruction of its war-related industries gave British Intelligence penetrable targets in the Soviet Zone and gave great numbers of Germans sought-after information on the USSR itself. …
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Step into the campus : transforming problems of scale in mass housing projects
… social cognitions. With the fall of the East Germany state new needs in educational, commercial, and social facilities have developed that must be addressed. In order to creatively infill the left-over spaces lying between the mass housing blocks, and improve the quality of life of the …
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Die Osterweiterung und die Regionalpolitik der EU : Konsequenzen aus den regionalpolitischen Maßnahmen in Irland und den neuen Bundesländern für eine Osterweiterung
… the transformation of the states of middle and eastern europe - which for the most part are underdeveloped the regional policy ist confronted with an especially difficult task. The European Union already been characterized by considerable regional disparities concerning national income, …
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Architektur markt/marked architecture : a new marketplace for Dresden
… the history of Dresden in Saxony in the former East Germany. After an intense investigation into the changing and evolving spatial and architectural makeup of the city, a site was chosen that was a locus for all the issues addressed. The final component of the thesis is a programmatic theme that …
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Everyday landscapes of immgrant integration in post-socialist Berlin: integration projects, othering and meanings of work.
… the new urban areas of immigrant settlement in Germany, namely neighborhoods of eastern Berlin, Marzahn. Once the largest socialist-era housing estate in the former East Germany, now severely socio-economically marginalized, central and northern Marzahn has over the past 15 years become home of …
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Socialist State Crime and Transitional Justice in Germany, 1961-2005
… to the societies, economies, and polities of East and West Germany. On a political, legal, cultural and symbolic level, strategies needed to be found to incorporate the divided – and potentially divisive – past into a forward-looking historical narrative. This study locates the ‘border guard …
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Unemployment, Job Insecurity and Health: A Survey of Post-Unification Germany
… representative survey of 2,557 adults in unified Germany in 1992. I discovered that, first, employed persons have health that is better than the health of the unemployed only when those employed feel secure about their jobs. Second, the data show that the poorer health in East Germany (a former …
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