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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Ringel, Felix,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: EASA Series ; 33
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (238 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785337994; 9783110998115
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785337994?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Felix Ringel.

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.