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Material ruins and epistemic developments: conceptual challenges in doing and thinking post-industrial ethnography

The aim of this paper is to question the ideas and notions that we as anthropologists have and use to address empirical and epistemological landscape of post-industrial cities and post-industrial cultures of work. In this paper, we draw on our recent research in the town of Sisak in order to problematize temporal, spatial and affective (life)worlds that we encountered while doing ethnographic research and to re-conceptualise it in the aftermath of the first-hand post-industrial fieldwork experience. In order to show the workings of the local post-industrial ethnography, to grasp fading, evolving and emerging phenomena, we had to develop an open conceptual framework to include the backward and forward moving (life)worlds, as well as (life)worlds staying still. We try to answer questions of how economic transformation, and economic renewal took part in narratives of the past, present and future of the city in the face of a deindustrialised present, of what constitutes a “post-Fordist cityscape”, and what are the specifics of “affective pedagogies of futures” that make the (life)worlds of the Sisak post-industrial communities.

industrial ruins, temporality, spatiality, affect

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