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Informationen zum Autor 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.” Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung The first comprehensive ethnography of the future! approaching Hoyerswerda! Germany's fastest shrinking city! not from the perspective of its past! but persistently from that of its future. Through an extensive ethnography of the city! it allows us to investigate the postindustrial era and the futures it has supposedly lost. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
