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Perspectives on Europe
Spring 2015 | 45:1
Secrecy, Spectacle,
and Power
Cold War prison cell of the East German (GDR) Secret Police.
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Perspectives on Europe
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Neringa Klumbytė
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Editors’ Note
Neringa Klumbytė, Cristina Vatulescu
Secrecy, Spectacle and Power
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Public Secrecy and the Democratic Security State
Tim Melley
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The Origins of Soviet Document Secrecy
25
Translating Secrecy: The Birth of the Iron Curtain Viewed from the
West, the East, and from Right Under
Arch Getty
Cristina Vatulescu
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Camp Secrets
Michael Beckerman
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Power and Vulnerability: Secrecy, Social Relationships, and the East
German Stasi
Anselma Gallinat
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Revealing the Past: The Formerly Secret Police Files in Poland and
Andzej Wajda’s Counter-Archive
Anna Krakus
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Conversations on Government Secrecy and Surveillance
Andreas Glaeser, Amir Weiner, Kristie Macrakis, Timothy Melley, Vladimir
Tismăneanu, and Katherine Verdery
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Cover: Stasiknast / Secret Police
Prison © dotpitch | Flickr.com
Article photographs (in order of
appearance): Study for the Theater
(Curtain) © Lauren Puchowski;
Security Camera © Shaunwilkinson |
Dreamstime.com; Library Archives
of Soviet Intelligence © Kcho |
Dreamstime.com; Berlin Wall as it
Appears Currently Northern Area of
Berlin © Mike | Flickr.com; Terezin
© Tjflex2 | Flicker.com; Stasi Hat ©
Andrew Williams | Dreamstime.com;
Andrzej Wajda na planie “Ziemi
Obiecanej”, 1974 | Public Domain;
Business conversations © Kirsty
Pargeter | Dreamstime.com; Inte ©
Mykhalo Palinchak | Dreamstime.
com.
Sponsored research images (in order of
appearance):
Orsay Station, Paris | Public Domain; Rue de la Roquette | Public
Domain; Lech Wałęsa, Strike at the
Vladimir Lenin Shipyard, 1980 |
Public Domain; Patrouille Sanitaire
de la CP$ DBFM - Tafraoui Algerie
(France) by JP Vasse | Flicker.com;
St Peter’s and Paul’s church, Novi
Pazar © Pavle Marjanovic | Dreamstime.com; Solarpark Altötting/Oberkastl - Windwärts Energie GmbH
© Windwärts Energie | Flickr.com; V
© Mykhalo Palinchak | Dreamstime.
com; Victims © Alejandro Giacometti
| Dreamstime.com; Fist Raised High
© Raúl Villalón | Flickr.com; Arc de
Triomphe © greg westfall | Flickr.
com; Operation Paul Revere Viet
Cong Prisoners © Manhhai | Flickr.
com; Woman on strike over public
sector pensions at N30 © John Pavel
| Dreamstime.com; Moorlands near
Neuminster © 3quarks | 123rf.com.
Contents cont’d
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Sponsored Research
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Reproductive Citizens: Gender, Immigration, and Acculturation in
France, 1900–1945
Nimisha Barton
77
Mainstream Populism in Post-Communist Europe: Ideological
Variation, Adaptation, and Success in the Twenty-First Century
Binio S. Binev
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Migration, Decolonization, and the European Project: France and
its Partners (1956–1962)
Megan Brown
87
The ‘Lost’ Sanjak of Novi Pazar: State Competition and Imperial
Diversity in a Late Ottoman Borderland
Harun Buljina
91
Farmers of Energy: Ethnographic Perspectives on Energy Citizenship in Germany’s Energy Transition
Jennifer D. Carlson
96
Sociological Art Practice in Post-1968 France
Ruth Erickson
101
Remembering Communism after ‘the Fall’: Memory and Oral
History in Post-Socialist Romania
Diana Georgescu
107
Re-Examining Unemployment and Migration through the Spanish
Labor Immobility Paradox
Grace Ming Gu
113
Global France and the Global 1960s: The Cannibalization of
French Studies or the Pathway to its Future
Burleigh Hendrickson
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Sponsored Research cont’d
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Imagining Internationalism: The Vietnam War, Anti-Imperialism,
and Human Rights in the Long 1960s
Salar Mohandesi
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Immigrants in European Labor Unions: Organizational Pitfall or
Potential
Akasemi Newsome
128
Settlement and Colonization in the German Moorlands, 1871–
1933
Carolyn D. Taratko
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Call for Papers
Twenty-Third International Conference of Europeanists
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. • April 14-16, 2016
Organized by the Council for European Studies (CES)
Resilient Europe?
Resilience is the capacity to survive, to bounce back and to innovate in the wake of extraordinary
stress or unexpected crises. Psychologists view resilience as a character trait. Today, researchers and
scholars of all stripes are beginning to understand resilience as constitutive of societies as well as of
individuals.
The Program Committee for the 23rd International Conference of Europeanists invites
participants to consider contemporary Europe’s capacity for resilience. Since the financial crisis began
in 2008, stresses and shocks of various sorts have posed dilemmas that challenge Europe’s resilience in
economic, political, and cultural domains. How will European economies confront slow growth and
austerity, as well as the atrophy of “social Europe” and the growth of inequality? How will demographic
decline combined with immigration and assimilation affect the ethnic composition of Europe? Will
the protracted Eurozone crisis and waning public support for European institutions and policies alter
the viability of the European project? How will secular Europe confront the challenges of religious
mobilization? How will European democracies confront the rise of nationalist parties and the
valorization of “illiberalism” as viable political practice? Can Europe remain a “Normative Power,” a force
for liberalism, democracy and the rule of law in the world, in the face of rising powers and resurgent
authoritarianism?
The Council for European Studies (CES) seeks proposals that explore these questions and the
quality of resilience in Europe. It encourages proposals from the widest range of disciplines and, in
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CES Conference Program Committee
Cornell University
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Temple University