Jonathan Bach
Jonathan Bach is a Professor of Global Studies at The New School in New York. His research interests include the workings of memory, material culture, and urban space in situations of rapid social transformation with a focus on Germany and China. Books include What Remains: Everyday Encounters with the Socialist Past in Germany (Columbia University Press), and, as co-editor, Learning from Shenzhen: China's Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City (University of Chicago Press) and Re-Centering the City: Global Mutations of Socialist Modernity (UCL Press). His articles have appeared in, among others, British Journal of Sociology, Cultural Anthropology, Theory, Culture & Society, Public Culture, Cultural Politics, and Philosophy and Social Science.