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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: EASA Series ; 33Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (238 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781785337987
  • 9781785337994
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  • 943/.186 23/eng/20240417
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface. Ethnography in Hindsight -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Translations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction Anthropology and the Future Notes from a Shrinking Fieldsite -- 1 ‘There Can Only Be One Narrative’ Postsocialism, Shrinkage and the Politics of Context in Hoyerswerda -- 2 Reasoning about the Past Temporal Complexity in a City with No Future -- 3 ‘Hoyerswerda…?’ – ‘…Once Had a Future!’ Temporal Flexibility and the Politics of the Future -- 4 Enforced Futurism/Prescribed Hopes Affective Politics and Pedagogies of the Future -- 5 Performing the Future Endurance, Maintenance and Self-Formation in Times of Shrinkage -- Conclusion Coming to Terms with the Future/‘Zukunftsbewältigung’ -- Bibliography -- Index
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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface. Ethnography in Hindsight -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Translations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction Anthropology and the Future Notes from a Shrinking Fieldsite -- 1 ‘There Can Only Be One Narrative’ Postsocialism, Shrinkage and the Politics of Context in Hoyerswerda -- 2 Reasoning about the Past Temporal Complexity in a City with No Future -- 3 ‘Hoyerswerda…?’ – ‘…Once Had a Future!’ Temporal Flexibility and the Politics of the Future -- 4 Enforced Futurism/Prescribed Hopes Affective Politics and Pedagogies of the Future -- 5 Performing the Future Endurance, Maintenance and Self-Formation in Times of Shrinkage -- Conclusion Coming to Terms with the Future/‘Zukunftsbewältigung’ -- Bibliography -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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