1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910795409803321

Autore

Ringel Felix

Titolo

Back to the postindustrial future : an ethnography of Germany's fastest shrinking city / / Felix Ringel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

1-78533-799-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps, photographs

Collana

EASA Series ; ; 33

Disciplina

943/.186

Soggetti

Deindustrialization - Germany

Coal trade - Germany - Hoyerswerda

Hoyerswerda (Germany) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910367750103321

Autore

Rabczuk Timon

Titolo

Computational Methods for Fracture / Timon Rabczuk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland : , : MDPI, , 2019

ISBN

9783039216871

3039216872

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (404 p.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers a collection of 17 scientific papers about the computational modeling of fracture. Some of the manuscripts propose new computational methods and/or how to improve existing cutting edge methods for fracture. These contributions can be classified into two categories: 1. Methods which treat the crack as strong discontinuity such as peridynamics, scaled boundary elements or specific versions of the smoothed finite element methods applied to fracture and 2. Continuous approaches to fracture based on, for instance, phase field models or continuum damage mechanics. On the other hand, the book also offers a wide range of applications where state-of-the-art techniques are employed to solve challenging engineering problems such as fractures in rock, glass, concrete. Also, larger systems such as fracture in subway stations due to fire, arch dams, or concrete decks are studied.