Anna Saunders
Biographic Data
| ID | 3759966 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Saunders |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Saunders |
| SIGNATURE | SAUNDERS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7852-7836 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Remembering Right-Wing Violence in Post-unification Eastern Germany
After the demise of the German Democratic Republic, social and economic instability, coupled with the growth of right-wing extremism, resulted in a number of violent and racist attacks on migrant workers as well as riots that lasted several days. This article examines the ways in which these attacks have been remembered in the public sphere since unification, with a particular focus on physical memorialization. Efforts to commemorate these events…
Constitution-Making as a Technique of International Law
Over the last three decades, international lawyers and institutions have come to understand constitution-making as an accepted technique of international law and a means of delivering peace and security. In defending this technique from its critics, scholars have drawn on a particular tradition of constitution-making that understands constitutionalism as a lawful form of international action, realizable through a set of formal practices, and juri…
Introduction
Peer-reviewed
The Eventisation of Anniversary Activity
This article traces the development of anniversary activity marking the fall of the Berlin Wall and the ‘peaceful revolution’ of 1989 in Berlin, through a focus on the official procedures and routines of significant anniversary years. It argues that the date is undergoing a process of ‘eventisation’, driven in part by an ‘attention economy’, in which embodied performances and rituals are developed, and participants are increasingly assimilated as…
Anniversary Capital’
Paul Stangl. Risen from Ruins
The history of twentieth-century Berlin provides a source of endless fascination. This latest volume adds to the already significant body of literature on the politics of the city’s built environment, most specifically that of East Berlin between 1945 and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961. The first line of East Germany’s national anthem provides an apt title and indicates the central theme of Paul Stangl’s investigation: “Risen from ruins,…
Tailoring Truth
The GDR Remembered
The Ghosts of Lenin, Thälmann and Marx in the Post‐Socialist Cityscape
Monumental statues of socialist martyrs and the ideological fathers of communism marked many GDR cityscapes as unequivocally socialist. Such monuments were carefully designed to occupy symbolic and ritual space at the heart of urban centres, and were intended to serve as the location of political demonstrations and ceremonies – yet in reality became little more than empty ritual symbols. After the fall of the Wall, these structures rapidly lost t…
The Essence and the Margin
With the expansion of the EU and calls for a European constitution, the question of a common European identity has become increasingly pressing in recent times. However, in the face of diverse national and regional traditions – and the absence of an obvious European cultural imaginary – the forging of a strong sense of European identity proves problematic. This volume brings together case studies of national and regional images from across Europe…
Dictatorship and Demand
" Dictatorship and Demand: The Politics of Consumerism in East Germany ." Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, 10(1), pp. 63–64
Remembering Cold War Division
Today Berlin's most famous symbol—the Berlin Wall—is almost absent from the city, lost amidst a cityscape striving for ‘normality’. However, this construct—representing not only the conflict of the Cold War, but also its curious stability—continues to provoke controversy, primarily in its role as an ‘unintended’ monument. This article examines the complex patterns of remembrance relating to the Wall and the GDR border which have emerged in Berlin…
Media and the Making of Modern Germany
German Culture, Politics, and Literature into the Twenty-First Century
Growing Up On the Front Line
At national anniversary celebrations, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) proudly presented to the world a young generation of loyal and flag-waving socialist patriots, willing to defend their fat
The Ghosts of Lenin, Thälmann and Marx in the Post‐Socialist Cityscape
Monumental statues of socialist martyrs and the ideological fathers of communism marked many GDR cityscapes as unequivocally socialist. Such monuments were carefully designed to occupy symbolic and ritual space at the heart of urban centres, and were intended to serve as the location of political demonstrations and ceremonies – yet in reality became little more than empty ritual symbols. After the fall of the Wall, these structures rapidly lost t…
Remembering Cold War Division
Today Berlin's most famous symbol—the Berlin Wall—is almost absent from the city, lost amidst a cityscape striving for ‘normality’. However, this construct—representing not only the conflict of the Cold War, but also its curious stability—continues to provoke controversy, primarily in its role as an ‘unintended’ monument. This article examines the complex patterns of remembrance relating to the Wall and the GDR border which have emerged in Berlin…
Constitution-Making as a Technique of International Law
Over the last three decades, international lawyers and institutions have come to understand constitution-making as an accepted technique of international law and a means of delivering peace and security. In defending this technique from its critics, scholars have drawn on a particular tradition of constitution-making that understands constitutionalism as a lawful form of international action, realizable through a set of formal practices, and juri…
Growing Up On the Front Line
At national anniversary celebrations, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) proudly presented to the world a young generation of loyal and flag-waving socialist patriots, willing to defend their fat
German Culture, Politics, and Literature into the Twenty-First Century
The Essence and the Margin
With the expansion of the EU and calls for a European constitution, the question of a common European identity has become increasingly pressing in recent times. However, in the face of diverse national and regional traditions – and the absence of an obvious European cultural imaginary – the forging of a strong sense of European identity proves problematic. This volume brings together case studies of national and regional images from across Europe…
Dictatorship and Demand
" Dictatorship and Demand: The Politics of Consumerism in East Germany ." Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, 10(1), pp. 63–64
Remembering Cold War Division
Today Berlin's most famous symbol—the Berlin Wall—is almost absent from the city, lost amidst a cityscape striving for ‘normality’. However, this construct—representing not only the conflict of the Cold War, but also its curious stability—continues to provoke controversy, primarily in its role as an ‘unintended’ monument. This article examines the complex patterns of remembrance relating to the Wall and the GDR border which have emerged in Berlin…
Media and the Making of Modern Germany
The Ghosts of Lenin, Thälmann and Marx in the Post‐Socialist Cityscape
Monumental statues of socialist martyrs and the ideological fathers of communism marked many GDR cityscapes as unequivocally socialist. Such monuments were carefully designed to occupy symbolic and ritual space at the heart of urban centres, and were intended to serve as the location of political demonstrations and ceremonies – yet in reality became little more than empty ritual symbols. After the fall of the Wall, these structures rapidly lost t…
The GDR Remembered
Tailoring Truth
The Eventisation of Anniversary Activity
This article traces the development of anniversary activity marking the fall of the Berlin Wall and the ‘peaceful revolution’ of 1989 in Berlin, through a focus on the official procedures and routines of significant anniversary years. It argues that the date is undergoing a process of ‘eventisation’, driven in part by an ‘attention economy’, in which embodied performances and rituals are developed, and participants are increasingly assimilated as…
Anniversary Capital’
Paul Stangl. Risen from Ruins
The history of twentieth-century Berlin provides a source of endless fascination. This latest volume adds to the already significant body of literature on the politics of the city’s built environment, most specifically that of East Berlin between 1945 and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961. The first line of East Germany’s national anthem provides an apt title and indicates the central theme of Paul Stangl’s investigation: “Risen from ruins,…
Introduction
Peer-reviewed
Constitution-Making as a Technique of International Law
Over the last three decades, international lawyers and institutions have come to understand constitution-making as an accepted technique of international law and a means of delivering peace and security. In defending this technique from its critics, scholars have drawn on a particular tradition of constitution-making that understands constitutionalism as a lawful form of international action, realizable through a set of formal practices, and juri…
Remembering Right-Wing Violence in Post-unification Eastern Germany
After the demise of the German Democratic Republic, social and economic instability, coupled with the growth of right-wing extremism, resulted in a number of violent and racist attacks on migrant workers as well as riots that lasted several days. This article examines the ways in which these attacks have been remembered in the public sphere since unification, with a particular focus on physical memorialization. Efforts to commemorate these events…
Political science (12 works) · History (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · History (8 works) · European history and politics (6 works) · German History and Society (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Art (4 works)