Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations viii
4. Preface. Ethnography in Hindsight ix
5. Acknowledgements xi
6. Notes on Translations xiv
7. Abbreviations xv
8. Introduction Anthropology and the Future Notes from a Shrinking Fieldsite 1
9. 1 ‘There Can Only Be One Narrative’ Postsocialism, Shrinkage and the Politics of Context in Hoyerswerda 33
10. 2 Reasoning about the Past Temporal Complexity in a City with No Future 64
11. 3 ‘Hoyerswerda…?’ – ‘…Once Had a Future!’ Temporal Flexibility and the Politics of the Future 90
12. 4 Enforced Futurism/Prescribed Hopes Affective Politics and Pedagogies of the Future 118
13. 5 Performing the Future Endurance, Maintenance and Self-Formation in Times of Shrinkage 146
14. Conclusion Coming to Terms with the Future/‘Zukunftsbewältigung’ 173
15. Bibliography 195
16. Index 207