Milena Veenis
Biographic Data
| ID | 225279 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Milena Veenis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Milena |
| FAMILY NAME | Veenis |
| SIGNATURE | VEENIS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia by Alexey Golubev
Reviewed by: The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia by Alexey Golubev Milena Veenis (bio) The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia By Alexey Golubev. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. Pp. 220. Golubev's book stands in a rich tradition of investigating the social agency of things and the entanglements between humans and objects in Soviet Russia and other European socialist countries. Well-known studies in this fie…
The Glass Recycling Container in the Netherlands: Symbol in Times of Scarcity and Abundance, 1939–1978
The Netherlands is reputed to be the first Western European country with separate waste collection. The first Dutch recycling container was established in 1972 by a local action committee of women, who were involved in raising environmental awareness and in critiquing the waste of consumer society. Their initiative was a huge success. Action committees in dozens of cities followed their example in short order, supported by national politicians. S…
Cola in the German Democratic Republic. East German Fantasies on Western Consumption
Coca Cola is frequently used to signal the large-scale transformation from socialism to capitalism in eastern and middle Europe, which began in East Germany in the autumn of 1989. In the famous German Wende -movie Goodbye Lenin , the caffeinated drink figures prominently. The main character in this movie is a middle-aged woman who has fallen into coma during one of the mass demonstrations in Berlin, in November 1989. When she finally wakes up, ab…
Consumption in East Germany: The Seduction and Betrayal of Things
In this article the author focuses upon the feelings and expectations that pertained to Western material objects in East Germany, both before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Before these things were actually there, most East Germans seemed to have high hopes with regard to a life surrounded by this material-consumptive abundance. But now that the East German material world is completely Westernized, most people express severe doubts and di…
Consumption in East Germany: The Seduction and Betrayal of Things
In this article the author focuses upon the feelings and expectations that pertained to Western material objects in East Germany, both before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Before these things were actually there, most East Germans seemed to have high hopes with regard to a life surrounded by this material-consumptive abundance. But now that the East German material world is completely Westernized, most people express severe doubts and di…
The Glass Recycling Container in the Netherlands: Symbol in Times of Scarcity and Abundance, 1939–1978
The Netherlands is reputed to be the first Western European country with separate waste collection. The first Dutch recycling container was established in 1972 by a local action committee of women, who were involved in raising environmental awareness and in critiquing the waste of consumer society. Their initiative was a huge success. Action committees in dozens of cities followed their example in short order, supported by national politicians. S…
Consumption in East Germany: The Seduction and Betrayal of Things
In this article the author focuses upon the feelings and expectations that pertained to Western material objects in East Germany, both before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Before these things were actually there, most East Germans seemed to have high hopes with regard to a life surrounded by this material-consumptive abundance. But now that the East German material world is completely Westernized, most people express severe doubts and di…
Cola in the German Democratic Republic. East German Fantasies on Western Consumption
Coca Cola is frequently used to signal the large-scale transformation from socialism to capitalism in eastern and middle Europe, which began in East Germany in the autumn of 1989. In the famous German Wende -movie Goodbye Lenin , the caffeinated drink figures prominently. The main character in this movie is a middle-aged woman who has fallen into coma during one of the mass demonstrations in Berlin, in November 1989. When she finally wakes up, ab…
The Glass Recycling Container in the Netherlands: Symbol in Times of Scarcity and Abundance, 1939–1978
The Netherlands is reputed to be the first Western European country with separate waste collection. The first Dutch recycling container was established in 1972 by a local action committee of women, who were involved in raising environmental awareness and in critiquing the waste of consumer society. Their initiative was a huge success. Action committees in dozens of cities followed their example in short order, supported by national politicians. S…
The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia by Alexey Golubev
Reviewed by: The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia by Alexey Golubev Milena Veenis (bio) The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia By Alexey Golubev. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. Pp. 220. Golubev's book stands in a rich tradition of investigating the social agency of things and the entanglements between humans and objects in Soviet Russia and other European socialist countries. Well-known studies in this fie…
Political science (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · European history and politics (2 works) · German (2 works)