Dispatches From Dystopia - Histories of Places Not Yet Forgotten

Informationen zum Autor Kate Brown is professor of history at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is also the author of Biography of No Place : From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland and Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters . Klappentext Kate Brown is a fearless historian, having ventured to some of the most dangerous places on the planet. Here, she reflects on her methods, the good and the bad alike, writing with candor, clarity, and panache about her occasionally extreme pursuits of knowledge that is concealed, obscured, or sometimes just hidden in plain sight. Beyond exotic locales such as the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Kazakhstan, and irradiated villages in Russia, she also visits an unexpectedly archival hotel basement in Seattle and the desolate vistas of the Rust Belt, all the time seeking the histories of communities and territories that have been silenced, broken, or contaminated. Throughout, she writes in a self-reflective, honest, and engaging voice that doesn t disguise her own involvementas in her conflicted evocation of her childhood in unlovely Elgin, Illinois. When she falls short or has doubts about what she s doing or how she s doing it, she doesn t conceal those moments. Instead, Brown forces us to notice how we assign value to the things we do and how our own stories are shaped as a result." Zusammenfassung Why are Kazakhstan and Montana the same place?" This book narrates the histories of locales that have been silenced! broken! or contaminated. It also examines the making and unmaking of place! and the lives of the people who remain in the fragile landscapes that are left behind.

Product details

• Authors: Kate Brown, Kate (Florence Nightingale School of Nursin Brown, Kate (Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery Brown
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2015
• EAN: 9780226242798
• ISBN: 978-0-226-24279-8
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic; Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein, Reiseberichte, Reiseliteratur, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, Travel - General, Travel writing