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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ringel, Felix (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.
Colección:EASA series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.