Back to the Postindustrial Future. Felix Ringel

Back to the Postindustrial Future

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Автор произведения: Felix Ringel

Серия: EASA Series

Жанр: Биология

Издательство: Ingram

isbn: 9781785337994

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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.