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dc.contributor.authorAhmann, Chloe
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-16T08:52:23Z
dc.date.available2024-05-16T08:52:23Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/90261
dc.description.abstractA powerful ethnographic study of South Baltimore, a place haunted by toxic pasts in its pursuit of better futures. Factory fires, chemical explosions, and aerial pollutants have inexorably shaped South Baltimore into one of the most polluted places in the country. In Futures after Progress, anthropologist Chloe Ahmann explores the rise and fall of industrial lifeways on this edge of the city and the uncertainties that linger in their wake. Writing from the community of Curtis Bay, where two hundred years of technocratic hubris have carried lethal costs, Ahmann also follows local efforts to realize a good future after industry and the rifts competing visions opened between neighbors. Examining tensions between White and Black residents, environmental activists and industrial enthusiasts, local elders and younger generations, Ahmann shows how this community has become a battleground for competing political futures whose stakes reverberate beyond its six square miles in a present after progress has lost steam. And yet—as one young resident explains—“that’s not how the story ends.” Rigorous and moving, Futures after Progress probes the deep roots of our ecological predicament, offering insight into what lies ahead for a country beset by dreams deferred and a planet on the precipice of change.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: generalen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNK Conservation of the environmenten_US
dc.subject.otherlate industrialism, United States, toxicity, uncertainty, environmental governance, urban history, speculation, social movements, atmosphere, Baltimoreen_US
dc.titleFutures after Progressen_US
dc.title.alternativeHope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimoreen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.7208/chicago/9780226833606.001.0001en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy9ff930ac-8023-4fa3-80ee-d7b1cb3cd84fen_US
oapen.relation.isbn9780226833590en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9780226833613en_US
oapen.pages369en_US


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