|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (222 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps, photographs |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collana |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Deindustrialization - Germany |
Coal trade - Germany - Hoyerswerda |
Hoyerswerda (Germany) Social conditions |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
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. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|