The Anthropology of Postindustrialism: Ethnographies of Disconnection

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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. Cover Title Copyright 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