Back to the Postindustrial Future

An Ethnography of Germany's Fastest-Shrinking City
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78920-805-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 33, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 354 g

Reihe: EASA Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ringel, Felix

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Ringel, Felix
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.”