"This book ethnographically delves into how the citizens of a declining Serbian copper-processing town, once a thriving Yugoslav town, shape their present and near future amid the gap between grand aspirational promises, theatrically performed by authorities, and the uncertain realities of the late-industrial environment"--
"This book ethnographically delves into how the citizens of a declining Serbian copper-processing town, once a thriving Yugoslav town, shape their present and near future amid the gap between grand aspirational promises, theatrically performed by authorities, and the uncertain realities of the late-industrial environment"--
Deana Jovanovi¿ is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University. Deana studies how people make futures, interact with pipes and cables, and live with airborne particles in industrial environments.
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Introduction Fabricating Mimicking Bargaining (Dis)Connecting: Infrastructures and Thermopolitics of Hope Pretending Accelerating Conclusion