Back to the Postindustrial Future: An Ethnography of Germany's Fastest-Shrinking City

Ringel, Felix

ISBN 10 : 178533798X ISBN 13 : 9781785337987

Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2018

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Felix Ringel is an Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department at Durham University. His work on time, the future, and urban regeneration has been published in leading journals such as The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Critique of Anthropology and Anthropological Theory. He is co-editor of The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology's issue on "Time-tricking: Reconsidering Temporal Agency in Troubled Times."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Berghahn Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 178533798X
• ISBN 13: 9781785337987
• Reliure: Belle reliure
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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