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Cultures of Privacy

Paradigms, Transformations, Contestations

Herausgeber: Fitz, Karsten | Harju, Bärbel

Publikationen der Bayerischen Amerika-Akademie / Publications of the Bavarian American Academy, Bd. 17

2016

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Abstract

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. ‘Cultures of Privacy – Paradigms, Transformations, Contestations’ addresses the nation’s struggles to harmonize these opposites, to reconcile the private and the public, both in a historical and comparative, transnational perspective. Individual 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).

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Cover C
Title Page iii
Copyright iv
Preface v
Table of Contents vii
Framing the Discourse ix
Karsten FITZ and Bärbel HARJU, Cultures of Privacy: An Introduction 1
David VINCENT, Privacy and Surveillance in the Nineteenth Century 15
Cultural Memory 33
Erika DOSS, Public Feeling, Public Healing: Contemporary Memorials and the Mediation of Grief 35
Klara Stephanie SZLEZÁK, A Twice-Told Tale: The Multiple Recreations of Hawthorne’s. Private Life at Concord, Massachusetts 57
Space 75
Steven HOELSCHER and Trushna PAREKH, Making Space Public in an American City 77
Bärbel HARJU, Privacy Crisis: Architecture, Suburbia, and Postwar America 95
Politics 115
Karsten FITZ, ‘Privatizing’ the White House: American Presidents and the Visual Aesthetics of Privacy 117
Christine HEINKE (née Weiss), Hillary & Bill, Jackie & Jack, Michelle & Barack – A Public Love: US American First Ladies in the Limelight 143
Law 165
Ari Ezra WALDMAN, Privacy as Trust 167
Birgit WETZEL-SAHM, Negotiating the Right to Be Let Alone: The Constitutional Right to Privacy and the Cultural Practice of the US Supreme Court 187
Katja KANZLER, Privacy, Professionalism, and the Female Lawyer: Intimate Publicness in The Good Wife 209
Technology 225
Sebastian HAUNSS, Privacy Activism after Snowden: Advocacy Networks or Protest 227
Giorgia Tommasi, Technology and Privacy: A Narrative Perspective 245
Sidonie SMITH and Julia WATSON, Getting or Losing a Life? Privacy, “Transparency,” and Self-Presentation Online 259
Coda 273
J. Jesse RAMÍREZ, Contemporary Cultures of Privacy, or, Rethinking the “Privacy Panic”: Shopping, Sexting, Surveillance, Copyright 275
Notes on Contributors 289