Back to the Postindustrial Future

An Ethnography of Germany's Fastest-Shrinking City

Back to the Postindustrial Future
Felix Ringel
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Paperback
h229 x 152mm - 238pg
1 May 2020 UK
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9781789208054
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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 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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Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781789208054
Published: 1 May 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Berghahn Books
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 238

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