Del 33 - EASA Series
Back to the Postindustrial Future
An Ethnography of Germany's Fastest Shrinking City
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
1 880 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
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.
