Maren Möhring: Neue Bücher für den Einkaufszettel. Die Nationalisierung und Ethnisierung des Konsums

Abstract

New Books for the Shopping List. Nationalisation and ethnicisation through consumption
The history of consumption has emerged as a vibrant area of historical research. Except for the analysis of the racist consumer politics of the ‘Third Reich’ and the debates on Americanisation in interwar and post-war Germany, there are few studies on the processes of ethnicisation and nationalisation through consumption. This is all the more surprising since practices of consumption often served as key sites for the articulation and production of national and ethnic identities. The reviewed books on the history of consumption in German-speaking countries in the 19th and 20th centuries deal with 1) nationalisation via product communication, 2) ethnicisation of consumer goods and 3) spaces of consumption created by migrants. Further research should also focus on the materiality of consumer goods and address processes of nationalisation and ethnicisation not only comparatively, but also within the framework of transnational transfers.

Besprochen werden u. a.:
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