بازگشت به آینده پساصنعتی: مردم‌نگاری از سریع‌ترین شهر در حال کوچک شدن آلمان

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. 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.--Back cover Contents Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Translations Abbreviations Introduction Anthropology and the Future ‘Chapter 1 There Can Only Be One Narrative’ Chapter 2 Reasoning about the Past Chapter 3 ‘Hoyerswerda...?’ – ‘...Once Had a Future!’ Chapter 4 Enforced Futurism/Prescribed Hopes Chapter 5 Performing the Future Conclusion Coming to Terms with the Future Bibliography Index Back to the Postindustrial Future is 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.