{"id":453,"date":"2017-10-23T23:22:49","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T20:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anthropology-journal.org\/wp\/?p=453"},"modified":"2019-03-07T21:42:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T18:42:35","slug":"irony-memory-and-memorabilia-americans-consuming-the-cold-war-bridget-mckenney-costello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anthropology-journal.org\/wp\/journal\/irony-memory-and-memorabilia-americans-consuming-the-cold-war-bridget-mckenney-costello","title":{"rendered":"IRONY, MEMORY, AND MEMORABILIA: AMERICANS CONSUMING THE COLD WAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> A small purchase made by the author at the flea market in front of the Alexandar Nevski Cathedral in Sofia, Bulgaria in 2010 serves the point of departure for this work, which explores the manner in which certain American tourists interact with the spaces and memories of Eastern Europe. The conflicted nationalism that arises from these encounters, which manifests as \u2018ironic consumption\u2019 (Klein 1999) of touristic objects and experiences, is produced by a tension between the broad cultural tropes that communicate and perpetrate a triumphal understanding of the Cold War in the American popular imagination, and the tourist\u2019s own experiences of social and economic anxiety in the post-Cold War era.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Keywords: <\/strong>tourism; consumption; memory; national identity; Cold War<\/p>\n<div class=\"ead-preview\">\n<div class=\"ead-document\" style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ead-iframe-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fanthropology-journal.org%2Fwp%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F10%2FN_4_03_Bridget-McKenney-Costello.pdf&amp;embedded=true&amp;hl=en\" title=\"Embedded Document\" class=\"ead-iframe\" style=\"width: 100%;height: 500px;border: none;visibility: hidden;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"ead-document-loading\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;position:absolute;left:0;top:0;z-index:10;\">\n<div class=\"ead-loading-wrap\">\n<div class=\"ead-loading-main\">\n<div class=\"ead-loading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/anthropology-journal.org\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/embed-any-document\/images\/loading.svg\" width=\"55\" height=\"55\" alt=\"Loader\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Loading&#8230;<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"ead-loading-foot\">\n<div class=\"ead-loading-foot-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/anthropology-journal.org\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/embed-any-document\/images\/EAD-logo.svg\" alt=\"EAD Logo\" width=\"36\" height=\"23\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Taking too long?<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><div class=\"ead-document-btn ead-reload-btn\" role=\"button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/anthropology-journal.org\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/embed-any-document\/images\/reload.svg\" alt=\"Reload\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\"\/> Reload document\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>|<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/anthropology-journal.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/N_4_03_Bridget-McKenney-Costello.pdf\" class=\"ead-document-btn\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/anthropology-journal.org\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/embed-any-document\/images\/open.svg\" alt=\"Open\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\"\/> Open in new tab\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"embed_download\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anthropology-journal.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/N_4_03_Bridget-McKenney-Costello.pdf\" download >Download [131.49 KB] <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: A small purchase made by the author at the flea market in front of the Alexandar Nevski Cathedral in Sofia, Bulgaria in 2010 serves the point of departure for this work, which explores the manner in which certain American &hellip; 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