Back to the Postindustrial Future Brian Rice

Back to the Postindustrial Future Brian RiceHow 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

the authors draw on a wide range of sources to pursue themes such as the nature of gender relations and the extent of women’s social and commercial activities

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This volume provides scholars

Reinvigorates Jürgen Habermas' early critical theory

and delirious stream-of-conscience passages

Balzac’s The Deserted Woman invites readers to consider how this spirit of unhealthy marriages is still alive in modern relationships

as well as handling

This results from a one-sided development of Western culture

It offers the first discussion of multi-level electoral dynamics in other western democracies thud proposing how electoral competition might develop in the devolved institutions of Scotland and Wales

concrete steps for using assessment and data collection to advocate for student success and develop effective CSCPs

and museums

and her own reflections on the mistreatment of American Indians nationwide