Felix Ringel

Back to the Postindustrial Future (eBook, ePUB)

An Ethnography of Germany's Fastest-Shrinking City

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785337994
• Artikelnr.: 52062621

Autorenporträt

Felix Ringel is an Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department at Durham University. His work on time, the future, and urban regeneration has been published in leading journals such as The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Critique of Anthropology and Anthropological Theory. He is co-editor of The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology's issue on "Time-tricking: Reconsidering Temporal Agency in Troubled Times."

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Translations
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Anthropology and the Future: Notes from a Shrinking Fieldsite
Chapter 1. 'There Can Only Be One Narrative': Postsocialism, Shrinkage and
the Politics of Context in Hoyerswerda
Chapter 2. Reasoning about the Past: Temporal Complexity in a City with No
Future
Chapter 3. 'Hoyerswerda...?' - '...Once Had a Future!': Temporal
Flexibility and the Politics of the Future
Chapter 4. Enforced Futurism/Prescribed Hopes: Affective Politics and
Pedagogies of the Future
Chapter 5. Performing the Future: Endurance, Maintenance and Self-Formation
in Times of Shrinkage
Conclusion: Coming to Terms with the Future/'Zukunftsbewältigung'
Bibliography
Index