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Subject(s)

• Deindustrialization—Germany [Browse]
• Coal trade—Germany—Hoyerswerda [Browse]
• Hoyerswerda (Germany)—Social conditions [Browse]

Series

• EASA series ; 33. [More in this series]
• EASA Series ; 33

Summary note

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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

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.

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ISBN

1-78533-799-8

Doi

• 10.1515/9781785337994

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