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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ringel, Felix (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.
Series:EASA series.
Subjects:
Deindustrialization > Germany.
Coal trade > Germany > Hoyerswerda.
Désindustrialisation > Allemagne.
Charbon > Industrie > Allemagne > Hoyerswerda.
HISTORY > Europe > Germany.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
Coal trade.
Deindustrialization.
Social conditions.
Hoyerswerda (Germany) > Social conditions.
Germany.
Germany > Hoyerswerda.
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 219 pages) : color illustrations, map.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781785337994
1785337998

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