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Staging the Promises
- Everyday Future-Making in a Serbian Industrial Town
Engelsk Paperback
Staging the Promises
- Everyday Future-Making in a Serbian Industrial Town
Engelsk Paperback

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Staging the Promises reveals how inhabitants of Bor, a Serbian copper-processing and mining town that lived through prosperous Yugoslav times and a post-socialist decline, were the audience theatrically performed promises of aspirational futures. Deana Jovanovic chronicles the efforts of the copper-processing company and the town's authorities to theatrically perform promises of better economic, urban, environmental, infrastructural and post-industrial futures. Her book asks: What impact did the staging of promises have on the residents? What temporal, material, and political effects did these performances generate? How did they shape the citizens' futures and their present? Jovanovic offers many ethnographic examples of ambivalence in people's orientation to their futures, while residents balanced hope with despair, disillusionment, and dismay. Staging the Promises highlights how the performances shaped the present, and how, in a Gramscian twist, they sustained hope alongside power dynamics that residents often criticized. Staging the Promises assesses the performative ways through which contemporary capitalist futures are remade. For Jovanovic, Bor represents a site that reflects a current global trend: staging the promises of enhanced futures today play a significant role in contemporary populist politics. Through them, she argues, distant futures become gradually withdrawn from people's horizons.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781501780134
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1501780131
Udg. Dato:
15 jan 2025
Længde:
17mm
Bredde:
229mm
Højde:
151mm
Forlag:
Cornell University Press
Oplagsdato:
15 jan 2025
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge