Dear colleagues,
I join a couple of exciting announcements of recent publications in the hope that my monograph might be of interest to some of you.
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 of its population to outmigration after German reunification, leading to the large-scale deconstruction of its cityscape. This book tells the story of its inhabitants, who are 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.
“Accessible and stimulating… There is little that I know of in our current literature that describes a present-moment European urban community in this ethnographic detail.”
Jane Guyer, Johns Hopkins University
You can find more details about the book, as well as order it, here http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/RingelBack
For the 50% discount code (valid until the end of this month), have a look at the attached order form.
All best,
Felix
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