Anthropology of Postindustrialism
Subtitle: Ethnographies of Disconnection
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781138943643
Subjects: Industrialization; Cities and towns; Human geography
Description: 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.