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Back to the postindustrial future : an ethnography of Germany's fastest shrinking city / Felix Ringel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ringel, Felix, author.
- Series:
- EASA series ; 33.
- EASA Series ; 33
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Deindustrialization--Germany.
- Deindustrialization.
- Coal trade--Germany--Hoyerswerda.
- Coal trade.
- Hoyerswerda (Germany)--Social conditions.
- Hoyerswerda (Germany).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (222 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps, photographs.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, [New York] ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn Books, 2018.
- Summary:
- How does an urban community come to terms with the loss of its future? The former socialist model city of Hoyerswerda is an extreme case of a declining postindustrial city. Built to serve the GDR coal industry, it lost over half its population to outmigration after German reunification and the coal industry crisis, leading to the large-scale deconstruction of its cityscape. This book tells the story of its inhabitants, now forced to reconsider their futures. Building on recent theoretical work, it advances a new anthropological approach to time, allowing us to investigate the postindustrial era and the futures it has supposedly lost.
- Contents:
- Introduction: anthropology and the future : notes from a shrinking fieldsite
- "There can only be one narrative" : postsocialism, shrinkage and the politics of context in Hoyerswerda
- Reasoning about the past : temporal politics and moral historical education in a city with no future
- "Hoyerswerda
- ?" : "
- once had a future!" : temporal flexibility and the politics of
- The future
- Enforced futurism / Prescribed Hopes : Affective Politics and Pedagogies of the Future
- Performing the future : endurance, maintenance and self-formation in times of shrinkage
- Conclusion: Coming to terms with the future / "Zukunftsbewaltigung"
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781785337994
- 1785337998
- OCLC:
- 1350570866
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