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Anke Pinkert’s "Remembering 1989: Future Archives of Public Protest" (2024) - Book recommendation by Kornelia Kończal
Remembering 1989: Future Archives of Public Protest by Anke Pinkert (2024)
Anke Pinkert offers a strikingly original reinterpretation of the events commonly referred to as the Peaceful Revolution in the GDR. Rather than presenting 1989 as a linear narrative of socialism’s collapse and the triumph of neoliberalism, she reimagines it as a moment of radical openness, civic courage, and democratic experimentation – a fleeting yet powerful promise of alternative futures. Through her counter-archival approach, Pinkert invites us to reconsider how political ruptures are remembered and to reflect on what might still be recovered from their unfinished promises.
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