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

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

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Ringel, Felix,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:EASA Series ; 33
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Physical Description:1 online resource (238 p.)
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Table of 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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