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    STUDIA SOCIOLOGIA - Issue no. 2 / 2011  
         
  Article:   GUEST EDITORS` FOREWORD FOR THE SPECIAL ISSUE ON “THE POLITICS OF MEMORY”.

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  Abstract:   In retrospect there is no surprise whatsoever about the emergence of postmodernism as a popular lebensgefühl, public fashion, and philosophical interpunction of the “grand narratives of modernity” in the 1980s basically everywhere in the global North. Les trentes glorieuses of the western welfare states were now indisputably over - stagnation, unemployment and public indebtedness were marking the day - and its Soviet competitor, too, had lost its credibility and increasingly its very legitimacy – similar debts and not un-similar stagnation had destroyed its pretensions.  
         
     
         
         
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