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Future-Making in Times of Urban Sustainability: Maintenance and Endurance as Progressive Alternatives in the Postindustrial Era

Ringel, Felix

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M. Kazubowski-Houston
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M. Auslander
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Abstract

Different times evoke different relations to the future. Recent additions look discouragingly conservative: sustaining, maintaining, and enduring describe practices that look like they are aimed at preventing change rather than provoking it. However, once we change our own expectations, we can see them as radically progressive alternatives for future-making in the postindustrial era. But what kind of futures do these practices help us and our informants to envision? And are these futures necessarily “otherwise”—and otherwise with regard to what: the state of the present or dystopian expectations of worse futures? Based on the material from a prototype postindustrial German city, I explore my informants’ seemingly disappointing attempts at maintaining urban sustainability and expand our analytic toolkit by fully contextualizing their own searches for lost futures.

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Ringel, F. (2021). Future-Making in Times of Urban Sustainability: Maintenance and Endurance as Progressive Alternatives in the Postindustrial Era. In M. Kazubowski-Houston, & M. Auslander (Eds.), In Search of Lost Futures (129-149). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63003-4_6

Online Publication Date Feb 17, 2021
Publication Date 2021
Deposit Date Dec 7, 2021
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Pages 129-149
Edition 1st ed.
Book Title In Search of Lost Futures
Chapter Number 6
ISBN 978-3-030-63002-7
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63003-4_6

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Ringel F., Future-Making in Times of Urban Sustainability: Maintenance and Endurance as Progressive Alternatives in the Postindustrial Era. In: Kazubowski-Houston M., Auslander M. (eds) In Search of Lost Futures, 2021, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan. This extract is taken from the author's original manuscript and has not been edited. The definitive, published, version of record is available here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-63003-4_6





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