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

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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.
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Shrinking cities Germany Hoyerswerda.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. bisacsh
anthropological approach.
anthropology.
career.
citizens.
city life.
coal industry.
contemporary.
cultural.
decline.
engaging.
german history.
german reunification.
historical.
history of anthropology.
history of germany.
hoyerswerda.
human condition.
industry.
lifetime.
outmigration.
political science.
politics.
postindustrial era.
postindustrial.
retrospective.
social issues.
social science.
socialist model city.
socialist model.
sociology.
urban community.
urban sociology.
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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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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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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
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