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Futures after Progress - Chloe Ahmann

Futures after Progress

Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore

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Buch | Softcover
336 Seiten
2024
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-83361-3 (ISBN)
CHF 41,85 inkl. MwSt
A powerful ethnographic study of South Baltimore, a place haunted by toxic pasts in its pursuit of better futures.

Factory fires, chemical explosions, and aerial pollutants have inexorably shaped South Baltimore into one of the most polluted places in the country. In Futures after Progress, anthropologist Chloe Ahmann explores the rise and fall of industrial lifeways on this edge of the city and the uncertainties that linger in their wake. Writing from the community of Curtis Bay, where two hundred years of technocratic hubris have carried lethal costs, Ahmann also follows local efforts to realize a good future after industry and the rifts competing visions opened between neighbors.
 
Examining tensions between White and Black residents, environmental activists and industrial enthusiasts, local elders and younger generations, Ahmann shows how this community has become a battleground for competing political futures whose stakes reverberate beyond its six square miles in a present after progress has lost steam. And yet—as one young resident explains—“that’s not how the story ends.” Rigorous and moving, Futures after Progress probes the deep roots of our ecological predicament, offering insight into what lies ahead for a country beset by dreams deferred and a planet on the precipice of change.

Chloe Ahmann is assistant professor of anthropology at Cornell University. This is her first book.

Map of the Curtis Bay Region
Preface: The Dust

Introduction
Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore

Part One: A Cautionary Tale
Impossible to Say

Chapter One
Forgotten in Anticipation

Little Boxes

Chapter Two
Cataclysmic Hypotheticals

Buying Time

Chapter Three
Could’ve Been Worse

Part Two: Not How the Story Ends
Beautiful City

Chapter Four
Art of the Possible

Out of Nothing

Chapter Five
Tick, Tick, BOOM

A Black Hole

Epilogue
Ethnography in the Subjunctive

Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 8 color plates, 32 halftones
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 513 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-226-83361-5 / 0226833615
ISBN-13 978-0-226-83361-3 / 9780226833613
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