Back to the postindustrial future an ethnography of Germany's fastest-shrinking city / Felix Ringel.

Author/creator Ringel, Felix
Format Electronic
EditionFirst Edition.
Publication InfoNew York : Berghahn Books, [2018]
Descriptionxiii, 219 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
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SeriesEASA series ; 33
Contents Introduction: anthropology and the future : notes from a shrinking fieldsite -- "There can only be one narrative" : postsocialism, shrinkage and the politics of context in Hoyerswerda -- Reasoning about the past : temporal politics and moral historical education in a city with no future -- "Hoyerswerda-- ?" : "-- once had a future!" : temporal flexibility and the politics of -- The future -- Enforced futurism / Prescribed Hopes : Affective Politics and Pedagogies of the Future -- Performing the future : endurance, maintenance and self-formation in times of shrinkage -- Conclusion: Coming to terms with the future / "Zukunftsbewaltigung" -- Bibliography -- Index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2017052484
ISBN9781785337987 (hardback : alk. paper)