This volume explores how mechanisms of postindustrial capitalism affect places and people in peripheral regions and de-industrializing cities. While studies of globalization tend to emphasize localities newly connected to global systems, this collection, in contrast, analyzes the disconnection of communities away from the market, presenting a range of ethnographic case studies that scrutinize the framework of this transformative process, analyzing new social formations that are emerging in the voids left behind by the de-industrialization, and introducing a discussion on the potential impacts of the current economic and ecological crises on the hyper-mobile model that has characterized this recent phase of global capitalism and spatially uneven development.
Author(s): Ismael Vaccaro, Krista Harper, Seth Murray
Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology 27
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: xiv+221
Cover
Title
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Contents
List of Figures
Foreword
1 The Anthropology of Postindustrialism: Ethnographies of Disconnection
2 Working in the “Life Market”: Gold, Coffee, and Violence in the Papua New Guinea Highlands
3 When the Smoke Clears: Seeing Beyond Tobacco and Other Extractive Industries in Rural Appalachian Kentucky
4 The Afterlife of Northern Development: Ghost Towns in the Russian Far North
5 Cycles of Industrial Change in Maine
6 Dwelling in a Pollution Landscape
7 The Trouble of Connection: E-Waste in China Between State Regulation, Development Regimes, and Global Capitalism
8 A Legacy of Sugar and Slaves: Disconnection and Regionalism in Bahia, Brazil
9 Abandoned Environments: Producing New Systems of Value Through Urban Exploration
10 “There Goes the Neighborhood”: Narrating the Decline of Place in East Berlin
11 Postindustrial Pathways for a “Single Industry Resource Town”: A Community Economies Approach
Contributors
Index
