What happens when an entire modern state's material culture becomes abruptly obsolete? How do ordinary people encounter what remains? In this ethnography, Jonathan Bach examines the afterlife of East Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall, as things and places from that vanished socialist...

In pursuit of status : the rising consumerism of China's middle class -- Mao's children are wearing fashion! -- Learning to consume Tibet -- Dolce & Banana, a Shanzhai creator's manual : production and consumption of fake in contemporary Chinese art practices -- Thriving medical consumerism in...

Rezension: Hervorgegangen aus einer Vorlesung mit dem Titel "Wirtschaftspolitik in einer alternden Gesellschaft" an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, befasst sich der Titel mit Herausforderungen und Problemen der demographischen Entwicklung aus einer sozio-ökonomischen Sicht heraus (z.B....