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Cultures of Privacy

Paradigms, Transformations, Contestations. Edited by Karsten Fitz and Bärbel Harju.

America has been hailed as the land of personal freedom, where the rights of the single citizen reign over the demands and expectations of the masses. Yet freedom of choice and the premium placed on private property also necessitated a counter force, a submission to authority, and pre-established patterns of behavior. And it led to a highly ambivalent notion of privacy, as an individual right situated between apparent opposites - private freedom and public order, liberalism and authoritarianism, (individual) autonomy and (communal) collectivity. This volume addresses the nation's struggles to harmonize these opposites, to reconcile the private and the public, both in a historical and comparative, transnational perspective. 14 contributions take issue with the staggering transformations of the public/private dichotomy, with the alleged erosion of privacy in the political arena, the 'right to be let alone' in US legal culture, and the ambiguous hyperemphasis on the private in the media and in popular and literary culture (as in confessional blogs, social networks, and memoirs). - Contents: David Vincent: Privacy and Surveillance in the Nineteenth Century. - Erika Doss: Public Feeling, Public Healing. Contemporary Memorials and the Mediation of Grief. - Klara Stephanie Szlezák: A Twice-Told Tale. The Multiple Recreations of Hawthorne's Private Life at Concord, Massachusetts. - Steven Hoelscher/Trushna Parekh: Making Space Public in an American City. - Bärbel Harju: Privacy Crisis. Architecture, Suburbia, and Postwar America. - Karsten Fitz: 'Privatizing' the White House. American Presidents and the Visual Aesthetics of Privacy. - Christine Heinke: Hillary & Bill, Jackie & Jack, Michelle & Barack, A Public Love. US American First Ladies in the Limelight. - Ari Ezra Waldman: Privacy as Trust. - Birgit Wetzel-Sahm: Negotiating the Right to Be Let Alone. The Constitutional Right to Privacy and the Cultural Practice of the US Supreme Court. - Katja Kanzler: Privacy, Professionalism, and the Female Lawyer. Intimate Publicness in "The Good Wife". - Sebastian Haunss: Privacy Activism after Snowden. Advocacy Networks or Protest? - Giorgia Tommasi: Technology and Privacy. A Narrative Perspective. - Sidonie Smith/Julia Watson: Getting or Losing a Life? Privacy, 'Transparency', and Self-Presentation Online. - J. Jesse Ramírez: Contemporary Cultures of Privacy, or, Rethinking the 'Privacy Panic'. Shopping, Sexting, Surveillance, Copyright. - [6],292 Seiten mit 22 Farb- und 13 s/w-Abb., gebunden (Publications of the Bavarian American Academy; Vol. 17/Universitätsverlag Winter 2015)