Felix Ringel

Back to the Postindustrial Future

An Ethnography of Germany's Fastest-Shrinking City

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First ethnography solely focused on the future One of the first ethnographies solely focused on a postindustrial city Theoretical contribution to anthropology of time (presentism) First English language ethnography of a shrinking city

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9781785337987
• ISBN-10: 178533798X
• Artikelnr.: 49022683

Autorenporträt

Felix Ringel is an Assistant Professor 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."

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Translations
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Anthropology and the Future: Notes from a Shrinking Fieldsite
Chapter 1. 'There Can Only Be One Narrative': Postsocialism, Shrinkage and
the Politics of Context in Hoyerswerda
Chapter 2. Reasoning about the Past: Temporal Complexity in a City with No
Future
Chapter 3. 'Hoyerswerda...?' - '...Once Had a Future!': Temporal
Flexibility and the Politics of the Future
Chapter 4. Enforced Futurism/Prescribed Hopes: Affective Politics and
Pedagogies of the Future
Chapter 5. Performing the Future: Endurance, Maintenance and Self-Formation
in Times of Shrinkage
Conclusion: Coming to Terms with the Future/'Zukunftsbewältigung'
Bibliography
Index