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anthropological approach
anthropology
Author_Felix Ringel
career
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citizens
city life
coal industry
contemporary
cultural
decline
engaging
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german history
german reunification
historical
history of anthropology
history of germany
hoyerswerda
human condition
industry
lifetime
outmigration
political science
politics
postindustrial
postindustrial era
retrospective
social issues
social science
socialist model
socialist model city
sociology
urban community
urban sociology
Product details
- ISBN 9781785337987
- Dimensions: 151 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 26 Mar 2018
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Felix Ringel is a COFUND International Research Fellow in the Anthropology Department at Durham University. His work on time, the future, and urban regeneration has been published in leading journals such as The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Critique of Anthropology and Anthropological Theory. He is co-editor of The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology's issue on `Time-tricking: Reconsidering Temporal Agency in Troubled Times'.
