TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ringel,Felix
TI  - Back to the Postindustrial Future: An Ethnography of Germany's Fastest-Shrinking City 
T2  - EASA Series
SN  - 9781785337987
U1  - 943/.186 23/eng/20240417
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Shrinking cities
KW  - Germany
KW  - Hoyerswerda
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - anthropological approach
KW  - anthropology
KW  - career
KW  - citizens
KW  - city life
KW  - coal industry
KW  - contemporary
KW  - cultural
KW  - decline
KW  - engaging
KW  - german history
KW  - german reunification
KW  - historical
KW  - history of anthropology
KW  - history of germany
KW  - hoyerswerda
KW  - human condition
KW  - industry
KW  - lifetime
KW  - outmigration
KW  - political science
KW  - politics
KW  - postindustrial era
KW  - postindustrial
KW  - retrospective
KW  - social issues
KW  - social science
KW  - socialist model city
KW  - socialist model
KW  - sociology
KW  - urban community
KW  - urban sociology
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785337994?locatt=mode:legacy
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