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Guerrilla Mothers and Distant Doubles: West German Feminists Look at China and Vietnam, 1968–1982
(2015)
Communist China and Vietnam looked like the future to many West German feminists in the years after 1968. This article reconstructs a lost history of influence, identification and emulation, tracing some of the ways that Chinese and Vietnamese communism inspired and attracted West German feminists from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. Beginning in a spirit of socialist universalism, West German feminists drew on reports of the experience of East Asian women who they felt lived in the ›liberated zones‹ of post-revolutionary society. Like the French radicals who declared that ›Vietnam is in our factories‹, West German feminists created a global framework for their activism. Looking east, they borrowed or adopted models of consciousness-raising and direct action from China and Vietnam. This article tracks the arc of exchange, from the enthusiasm of the late 1960s and 1970s to the West German feminist disenchantment with both East Asian communism and the global South by the early 1980s.
Gegen Entmischung und Monotonie der Städte. Alexander Mitscherlichs »Anstiftung zum Unfrieden«
(2015)
50 Jahre ist es nun her, dass Alexander Mitscherlichs Buch »Die Unwirtlichkeit unserer Städte« erstmals erschienen ist. Es umfasst mehrere Vorträge, die sich auf den bis dahin erfolgten Stadterneuerungsprozess bezogen. Mitscherlich betrachtete den Wiederaufbau nach 1945 als verpasste Chance. Besonderer Dorn im Auge waren ihm die städtebaulich dominanten, an funktionalistischen Prinzipien orientierten Strategien zur Entmischung des Stadtraums,[1] weil dies eine Bindung der Menschen an Räume behindere und weil der »Unsinn einer Entmischung« den Verfall städtischer Öffentlichkeit bewirke.