Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore - Brossura

Ahmann, Chloe

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ISBN 10: 0226833615 ISBN 13: 9780226833613

Casa editrice: Univ of Chicago Pr, 2024

Riassunto

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.

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Informazioni sull'autore

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

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Chicago Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2024
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0226833615
• ISBN 13: 9780226833613
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 342
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile