Back to the Postindustrial Future. Felix Ringel
Биология. EASA Series
Back to the Postindustrial Future
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isbn 9781785337994
Автор произведения Felix Ringel
Жанр Биология
Серия EASA Series
Издательство Ingram
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.