Where the World Ended: Re-Unification and Identity in the

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Where the World Ended: Re-Unification and Identity in the German Borderland

When the Berlin Wall fell, people who lived along the dismantled border found their lives drastically and rapidly transformed. Daphne Berdahl, through ongoing ethnographic research in a former East German border village, explores the issues of borders and borderland identities that have accompanied the many transitions since 1990. What happens to identity and personhood, she asks, when a political and economic system collapses overnight? How do people negotiate and manipulate a liminal condition created by the disappearance of a significant frame of reference?

Berdahl concentrates especially on how these changes have affected certain "border zones" of daily lifeâ€”including social organization, gender, religion, and nationalityâ€”in a place where literal, indeed concrete, borders were until recently a very powerful presence. Borders, she argues, are places of ambiguity as well as of intense lucidity; these qualities may in fact be mutually constitutive. She shows how, in a moment of headlong historical transformation, larger political, economic, and social processes are manifested locally and specifically. In the process of a transition between two German states, people have invented, and to some extent ritualized, cultural practices that both reflect and constitute profound identity transformations in a period of intense social discord. Where the World Ended combines a vivid ethnographic account of everyday life under socialist rule and after German reunification with an original investigation of the paradoxical human condition of a borderland.

Country	USA
Author	Daphne Berdahl
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9780520921320
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	University of California Press
Manufacturer	University of California Press
NumberOfPages	311
PublicationDate	1999-05-10
Publisher	University of California Press
ReleaseDate	1999-05-10
Studio	University of California Press

Where the World Ended: Re-Unification and Identity in the German Borderland

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