Melanie Lorek
Biographic Data
| ID | 290560 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melanie Lorek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melanie |
| FAMILY NAME | Lorek |
| SIGNATURE | LOREK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | CUNY School of Professional Studies |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-5360-2058 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes
Mapping the Transnational World
The social and symbolic meanings of recipes in negotiating East German identity
This paper explores the social and symbolic meanings of recipes in the creation of community imagined online. Linking scholarship on the social relevance of recipes with research on food memories, identity, as well as research on memory in the digital age, I examine how internet users remember the German Democratic Republic (GDR) through recipes they post and discuss online on the two most popular German-based recipe sharing websites. My findings…
It Did Not Affect Me
How do individuals make sense of events that are associated with major social-systemic changes? The paper explores the relationship between 'German reunification' and processes of meaning making and identity formation by former citizens of the German Democratic Republic. Analyzing twenty-six in-depth, life-history interviews of East Germans born in two different generational cohorts, I examine the various narrative strategies employed that allow …
Mapping the Transnational World
The social and symbolic meanings of recipes in negotiating East German identity
This paper explores the social and symbolic meanings of recipes in the creation of community imagined online. Linking scholarship on the social relevance of recipes with research on food memories, identity, as well as research on memory in the digital age, I examine how internet users remember the German Democratic Republic (GDR) through recipes they post and discuss online on the two most popular German-based recipe sharing websites. My findings…
It Did Not Affect Me
How do individuals make sense of events that are associated with major social-systemic changes? The paper explores the relationship between 'German reunification' and processes of meaning making and identity formation by former citizens of the German Democratic Republic. Analyzing twenty-six in-depth, life-history interviews of East Germans born in two different generational cohorts, I examine the various narrative strategies employed that allow …
The social and symbolic meanings of recipes in negotiating East German identity
This paper explores the social and symbolic meanings of recipes in the creation of community imagined online. Linking scholarship on the social relevance of recipes with research on food memories, identity, as well as research on memory in the digital age, I examine how internet users remember the German Democratic Republic (GDR) through recipes they post and discuss online on the two most popular German-based recipe sharing websites. My findings…
The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes
Mapping the Transnational World
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · German (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Anatomy (1 work) · Anatomy (1 work) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (1 work)