Berger
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 9458 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Berger |
| SOBRENOME | Berger |
| ASSINATURA | BERGER |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Ruhr University Bochum |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0461-2640 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 139 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 91 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 139 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Workers and the ‘Golden Age’ of Social Democracy – An Introduction’s Second Thoughts
Realism or Idealism? Perspectives on the Philosophy of History From a Practicing Historian
This review essay argues that the realist philosophy of history, as represented by Adam Timmins in Towards a Realist Philosophy of History , raises interesting questions about the nature of historical writing and challenges some of the foundations of idealist philosophy of history. A basic problem with Timmins's book is the conflation of “constructivism” with “idealism” when there are, indeed, quite a few “realists” who are also “constructivists.…
Nicholas Beckmann, Nationalgeschichte erzählen. (Narratologia, Bd. 88.) Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter 2023
Workers and the “Golden Age” of Social Democracy? An Introduction
(Im)mobilities on the margins
Robert Michels, Socialism, and Modernity
Obituary
Enmeshed with the digital
This paper aims to develop a theoretical interpretation of how satellite navigation transforms drivers' experience of automotive spaces. The use of satellite navigation has, so far, been predominantly studied from a cognitivist perspective based on the computer model of cognition and the theory of spatial disengagement. Experimental studies have concluded that over-reliance on digital navigation tools diminishes spatial orientation and spatial me…
The French Revolution and Social Democracy
Remembering Herbert Gutman's Work, Culture, and Society Fifty Years On
I first encountered Herbert Gutman's work as a PhD student at the University of Oxford in 1988 when I was working on my thesis comparing the experiences of the German Social Democrats and the British Labour Party during the first three decades of the twentieth century.1 A friend of mine introduced Gutman to me with these words: “This is the American E. P. Thompson.” When I first read Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America, its auth…
Urbane Künste Ruhr and its cultural interventions in the remaking of the Ruhr region in Germany
This article reflects on the role of art in the memory activism surrounding deindustrialization in the Ruhr region of Germany by focusing on an institution promoting contemporary art: Urbane Künste Ruhr (UKR). It will ask how UKR is bringing together the past, present and future of the Ruhr region through its various activities. In particular, it will focus on UKR’s 2021 exhibition as an example of how the transformation of the Ruhr is imagined t…
History Making and Ethics-an Integral Relationship
In this review essay, I examine the arguments made by Marnie Hughes-Warrington, with Anne Martin, in Big and Little Histories: Sizing Up Ethics in Historiography. While I find much to praise in this history, I also ask critical questions about the impact of non-Western ethics on historical writing, the role of ethics in historical writing generally, the need to further investigate the everyday lifeworlds of history makers in order to fully unders…
Peter Wegenschimmel
Article Peter Wegenschimmel: Zombiewerften oder Hungerkünstler? Staatlicher Schiffbau in Ostmitteleuropa nach 1970 was published on June 1, 2023 in the journal Comparative Southeast European Studies (volume 71, issue 2)
Mediatized Love
The article scrutinizes the mediatization of dating and love as part of a broader mediatization process of the life-world, with a focus on the experience of using the popular dating app Tinder. Central to the analysis is how interfacial features, algorithmic structuration, and user perceptions create the affordances of the application and, in the process, shape the experience of using it. The experience of using Tinder is characterized by a 'swip…
History and Identity
This introduction to contemporary historical theory and practice shows how issues of identity have shaped how we write history. Stefan Berger charts how a new self-reflexivity about what is involved in the process of writing history entered the historical profession and the part that historians have played in debates about the past and its meaningfulness for the present. He introduces key trends in the theory of history such as postmodernism, pos…
Chapter 9 Germany in Historical Perspective
Policy Concertation and Social Partnership in Western Europe
Policy concertation - the determination of public policy by means of agreements struck between governments, employers and trade unions - continues to thrive in Western Europe despite the impact of liberalizing trends that were expected to lead to its demise. This volume brings together a team of 23 experts with the aim to undertake paired historical and political studies of policy concertation in ten West European countries, which were then subje…
What’s New in the History of Social Movements
Political Ideologies and their Relationship to Capitalism and Democracy
Thomas Welskopp (1961 – 2021)
Social Democracy, Democracy and Capitalism
The Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) and its appeal to workers – with special reference to the Ruhr Region of Germany
Der vorliegende Aufsatz beurteilt, in welchem Ausmaß die AfD in der kurzen Geschichte seit ihrer Gründung 2013 Themen behandelt hat, die die deutsche Arbeiterklasse betreffen. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit widmet er den Mitgliedern, die unter Führung von Björn Höcke im „Flügel“ der Partei organisiert waren. Diese standen in den vergangenen Jahren an vorderster Front der Propagierung völkisch-sozialer Ideen. Der Text beschreibt verschiedene Versuche, r…
Narrating the Nation
A sustained and systematic study of the construction, erosion and reconstruction of national histories across a wide variety of states is highly topical and extremely relevant in the context of the accelerating processes of Europeanization and globalization. However, as demonstrated in this volume, histories have not, of course, only been written by professional historians. Drawing on studies from a number of different European nation states, the…
Analysing Historical Narratives
Narrativity and Historical Writing
Community
This article aims to show the clearly differentiated national context in which concepts of community as used in heritage developed from the late nineteenth century to the present day. In the first part of this article, we look at the origins of the academic use of 'community' in Germany from the late nineteenth century to the present day arguing that its association with National Socialism has tainted the concept permanently. In the second part o…
The role of national archives in constructing national master narratives in Europe
Industrial Heritage and the Ambiguities of Nostalgia for an Industrial Past in the Ruhr Valley, Germany
After theorizing and situating nostalgia in the academic discourses surrounding deindustrialization, this article will address the deindustrialization process and the accompanying heritagization of the Ruhr before investigating the different meanings and layers of nostalgia that are attached to industrial heritage discourse in the region. It will discuss why certain representations of the industrial past do not appear under the spotlight of the R…
(De-)Industrial Heritage
The radical restructuring of the international division of labor has meant that huge swaths of Europe and North America have experienced painful deindustrialization since the 1960s. In itself, this is nothing new, as capitalist development has always been geographically uneven.1 It is also a global phenomenon, with newly industrialized areas experiencing decline soon after the initial areas.2 What differed in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s was the s…
The Study of Enclaves - Some Introductory Remarks1
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On the Role of Myths and History in the Construction of National Identity in Modern Europe
Burdens of Eternity
The industrial past has become an inescapable and fundamental component of the identity of the Ruhr region. Throughout the twentieth century the Ruhr acquired a diverse public self-perception—incorporating multiculturalism, football, nationalism, urbanity, and nature—that was strongly imbued by images of the industrial past. Over recent decades, representations of the Ruhr’s industrial heritage have been driven by a desire to build the future of …
How to be Russian with a Difference? Kaliningrad and its German Past1
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A Return to the National Paradigm? National History Writing in Germany, Italy, France, and Britain from 1945 to the Present
What is history? Historiography roundtable
In 1961, English historian E. H. Carr described history as ‘an unending dialogue between the present and the past’. Nearly 60 years later, has anything changed? What does ‘doing history’ mean today? And what does it mean in Australia and other settler societies, where debates about decolonising methodologies, fictions, audiences and authorship challenge the practice and function of history? In this recent roundtable held at the Australian Centre …
Locating Kaliningrad And KÖNigsberg In Russian And German Collective Identity Discourses And Political Symbolism In The 750Th Anniversary Celebrations Of 2005
This article begins by briefly exploring issues of conflict and control in relation to the 750th anniversary of the city of Kaliningrad/Königsberg. An analysis of the tensions between Russian regional (Kaliningrad) and national (federal) identity discourses on the political symbolism of the 750th anniversary commemoration is offered, using Russian media reports and interviews conducted in Kaliningrad. German narratives on the political symbolism …
The rise and fall of ‘critical’ historiography? Some reflections on the historiographical agenda of the left in Britain, France and Germany at the end of the twentieth century
This article compares the rise and fall of ‘critical’, that is to say oppositional and emancipatory, historiography in Britain, France and Germany since 1945. It argues that the prolonged crisis of the old ‘critical’ paradigm from the late 1970s onwards had much to do with political disillusionment and methodological weaknesses. It concludes by suggesting that any new ‘critical’ historiography will have to explore the opportunities inherent in th…
Historians and Nation-Building in Germany After Reunification
HISTORIANS AND NATION-BUILDING IN GERMANY AFTER REUNIFICATION Get access Stefan Berger Stefan Berger University of Wales CollegeCardiff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 148, Issue 1, August 1995, Pages 187–222, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/148.1.187 Published: 01 August 1995
Um imaginário pós-industrial? A popularização do patrimônio industrial no Ruhr e a representação de sua identidade regional
A representação da identidade regional na região do Ruhr, na Alemanha, assenta-se predominantemente no patrimônio industrial. Desde a década de 1960, ao longo da transição em curso da indústria pesada para um cenário pós-industrial, o Ruhr conheceu um movimento para preservar os objetos históricos associados à sua indústria de carvão e aço. Vindo de baixo, o movimento de defesa do patrimônio industrial tornou-se um fenômeno dominante no Ruhr. O p…
Solidarność, Western Solidarity and Détente
The reaction of Western trade unions towards Solidarność was extremely varied, ranging from enthusiastic support to the denunciation of Solidarność as ‘counter-revolutionary’ and in the pay of the CIA. These views depended on political, institutional, and cultural determinants and had much to do with the national circumstances of particular unions and their representatives
Former GDR Historians in the Reunified Germany
This article investigates the remarkably productive alternative historical culture which emerged in East Germany after 1990 and its links to the official historical culture dominated by West Germans. This alternative historical culture in the East is supported very largely by historians of the former GDR who lost their jobs following the evaluations and restructuring of the GDR's system of higher education in the wake of reunification. It finds e…
Social History vs Cultural History
Urbane Künste Ruhr and its cultural interventions in the remaking of the Ruhr region in Germany
This article reflects on the role of art in the memory activism surrounding deindustrialization in the Ruhr region of Germany by focusing on an institution promoting contemporary art: Urbane Künste Ruhr (UKR). It will ask how UKR is bringing together the past, present and future of the Ruhr region through its various activities. In particular, it will focus on UKR’s 2021 exhibition as an example of how the transformation of the Ruhr is imagined t…
Mediatized Love
The article scrutinizes the mediatization of dating and love as part of a broader mediatization process of the life-world, with a focus on the experience of using the popular dating app Tinder. Central to the analysis is how interfacial features, algorithmic structuration, and user perceptions create the affordances of the application and, in the process, shape the experience of using it. The experience of using Tinder is characterized by a 'swip…
German Trade Unions, Their History, and the Use of Memory
This article summarizes the results of the work of a commission of the German Trade Union Confederation, Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (DGB), on the memory cultures of social democracy and trade unionism in Germany and highlights its recommendations on how to strengthen the public memory of the achievements of trade unionism in German society. It argues that the contemporary memory cultures are highly deficient and in need of a major boost in order…
Difficult (Re-)Alignments – Comparative Perspectives on Social Democracy and Religion from Late-nineteenth century to Interwar Germany and Britain
The attitudes of British and German socialists vis-a-vis religion before the First World War has been described by one of the most eminent scholars in the field of the history of religion, Hugh McLeod, as being diametrically opposed – German socialists were largely secular, irreligious and anti-clerical whereas within British socialism, Christianity, especially dissenting Protestantism, was a far more important streak. In this article I would lik…
Moral, Kapitalismus und soziale Bewegungen. Kulturhistorische Annäherungen an einen ‚alten‘ Gegenstand
The article is presenting an argument to look at the history of capitalism through the lens of moral ideas and moral movements. The authors argue that capitalism cannot be understood as an economic system alone but as a cultural system that relied on morality as justification whilst, at the same time, its critics also used moral arguments to attack the alleged immorality of capitalism. Making use of E. P. Thompson’s concept of the ‘moral economy’…
Transnational Networks in Regional Integration. Governing Europe 1945–83
Nation-building and regional integration, c .1800–1914
This article takes issue with the view that nation-states challenged empires in the nineteenth century and ultimately brought about their downfall. Instead it argues that nation-states were created by empires. It discusses nationalising strategies of diverse empires in comparative perspective, and focuses on their key elements, including, first, mental mapping of empires, second, the role of elites (both at the centre and at the periphery), third…
National Myths in Europe
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access STEFAN BERGER STEFAN BERGER Trinity CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVI, Issue CCCCXIX, April 1991, Pages 525-b–527, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVI.CCCCXIX.525-b Published: 01 April 1991
The British and German Labour Movements before the Second World War
Journal Article The British and German Labour Movements before the Second World War: The Sonderweg Revisited Get access Stefan Berger Stefan Berger University of WalesCardiff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 3, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 219–248, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/3.3.219 Published: 01 January 1992
Short notices
Ian W. Archer, The Pursuit of Stability: Social Relations in Elizabethan London (1991), xvi + 307 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £30.00). J. R. Dinvviddy, Radicalism and Reform in Britain, 1780–1850 (1992), xx + 452 (Hambledon Press, £38.00). Gerhard A. Ritter and Klaus Tenfelde, Arbeiter im Deutschen Kaiserreich 1871–1914 (1993), xi + 889 (J. H. W. Dietz Nachf., Bonn, DM 118). Lynn Abrams, Workers’ Culture in Imperial Germany: Leisure a…
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Theodor Storm. The Life and Works of a Democratic Humanitarian
Theodor Storm. The Life and Works of a Democratic Humanitarian Get access Stefan Berger Stefan Berger Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 11, Issue 3, July 1993, Pages 406–408, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/11.3.406 Published: 01 July 1993
The Decline of Liberalism and the Rise of Labour—The Regional Approach1
The British Labour Party and the German Social Democrats, 1900–1931
This is a pioneering comparative study of the early years of the British Labour Party and the German Social Democratic Party. Stefan Berger examines the history of both parties over thirty years, focusing on their organization, their integration into state and society, their ideology, their cultural and recreational activities, and their relationship with each other. Dr Berger argues that the traditional view of deep-seated cultural and ideologic…
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Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access STEFAN BERGER STEFAN BERGER University of Wales CollegeCardiff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CIX, Issue 432, June 1994, Pages 797–798, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CIX.432.797 Published: 01 June 1994
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Shorter Notices Get access STEFAN BERGER STEFAN BERGER University of Cardiff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CIX, Issue 434, November 1994, Pages 1329–1330, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CIX.434.1329 Published: 01 November 1994
Die SPD in Sachsen und Thuringen zwischen Hochburg und Diaspora. Untersuchungen auf lokaler Ebene vom Kaiserreich bis zur Gegenwart
Die SPD in Sachsen und Thüringen zwischen Hochburg und Diaspora. Untersuchungen auf lokaler Ebene vom Kaiserreich bis zur Gegenwart Get access Stefan Berger Stefan Berger Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 12, Issue 3, July 1994, Pages 424–426, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/12.3.424 Published: 01 July 1994
Nationalism and the Left in Germany
A new/old spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of nationalism. Everyone underestimated its force and potential before 1989, and in the post-Cold War world, almost everyone is struggling to come to terms with it. There is a long history of the Left, in Germany in particular, being accused of
Volksbewegung und Demokratische Neuordnung in Baden, 1918/1919
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Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access STEFAN BERGER STEFAN BERGER University of Wales College of Cardiff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 439, November 1995, Pages 1323-b–1324, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.439.1323-b Published: 01 November 1995
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SHORTER NOTICES Get access STEPAN BERGER STEPAN BERGER University of Wales College of Cardiff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 437, July 1995, Pages 799–800, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.437.799 Published: 01 July 1995
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SHORTER NOTICES STEFAN BERGER STEFAN BERGER University of Wales College of Cardiff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 436, April 1995, Pages 509–510, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.436.509 Published: 01 April 1995
Anticommunism after the fall of communism? The anti‐left syndrome of the SPD and its impact on contemporary German politics
(1995). Anticommunism after the fall of communism? The anti‐left syndrome of the SPD and its impact on contemporary German politics. Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 66-97
Modell SPD? Italienische Sozialisten und deutsche Sozialdemokratie bis zum ersten Weltkrieg
Journal Article Modell SPD? Italienische Sozialisten und deutsche Sozialdemokratie bis zum ersten Weltkrieg Get access Stefan Berger Stefan Berger Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 13, Issue 3, July 1995, Pages 417–418, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/13.3.417 Published: 01 July 1995
Historians and Nation-Building in Germany After Reunification
HISTORIANS AND NATION-BUILDING IN GERMANY AFTER REUNIFICATION Get access Stefan Berger Stefan Berger University of Wales CollegeCardiff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 148, Issue 1, August 1995, Pages 187–222, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/148.1.187 Published: 01 August 1995
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SHORTER NOTICES Get access STEFAN BERGER STEFAN BERGER University of Wales College of Cardiff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 441, April 1996, Pages 531–532, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.441.531 Published: 01 April 1996
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Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access STEFAN BERGER STEFAN BERGER University of WalesCardiff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 444, November 1996, Pages 1343–1344, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.444.1343 Published: 01 November 1996
The rise and fall of ‘critical’ historiography? Some reflections on the historiographical agenda of the left in Britain, France and Germany at the end of the twentieth century
This article compares the rise and fall of ‘critical’, that is to say oppositional and emancipatory, historiography in Britain, France and Germany since 1945. It argues that the prolonged crisis of the old ‘critical’ paradigm from the late 1970s onwards had much to do with political disillusionment and methodological weaknesses. It concludes by suggesting that any new ‘critical’ historiography will have to explore the opportunities inherent in th…
Organising Talent and Disciplined Steadiness’
In comparative Labour history there is a long tradition of adhering to a typology of labour movements which distinguishes south-western European, ‘Latin’ labour movements (France, Spain, Italy) from north-eastern European labour movements (Germany, Austria, Scandinavia, east and south-east Europe) and invokes a third category: Anglo-American labour movements. The British Labour Party is usually subsumed under this latter category, whereas the Ger…
German Social Democracy and the Rise of Nazism
Journal Article German Social Democracy and the Rise of Nazism Get access Stefan Berger Stefan Berger Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 14, Issue 1, January 1996, Pages 105–106, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/14.1.105 Published: 01 January 1996
Streitfall Deutschland. Die britische Linke und die 'Demokratisierung' des Deutschen Reiches, 1900-1918
Streitfall Deutschland. Die britische Linke und die ‘Demokratisierung’ des Deutschen Reiches, 1900-1918 Get access Stefan Berger Stefan Berger University of Wales, CardiffBy Friedrich Weckerlein. ‘Veroffentlichungen des Deutschen Historischen Instituts London’, Bd. 34. Gottingen and Zurich: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 1994. 451 pp. DM 124. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 14, Issue 3, Jul…
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