Back to the postindustrial future : an ethnography of Germany's fastest-shrinking city
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.
- Location
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
- ISBN
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9781785337987
178533798X
- Dimensions
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24 cm
- Extent
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xiii, 219 Seiten
- Edition
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First edition
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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EASA series ; 33
- Keyword
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Geschichte
Deindustrialisierung
Sozioökonomischer Wandel
Deindustrialisierung
Hoyerswerda
Hoyerswerda
- Table of contents
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- Last update
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11.06.2025, 2:01 PM CEST
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Associated
- Ringel, Felix
- Berghahn
Time of origin
- [2018]
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