Back to the postindustrial future : an ethnography of Germany's fastest shrinking city /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
New York :
Berghahn Books,
2018.
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Colección: | EASA series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 219 pages) : color illustrations, map. |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781785337994 1785337998 |