‘In the eyeblink of a planet you were born, died, and your bones disintegrated’: scales of mourning and velocities of memory in Philipp Meyer’s American Rust
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DOI: 10.1080/0950236x.2017.1323494
Abstract: ABSTRACT Tom Cohen (2012) contends that critical accounts of climate change have a tendency to collapse the ecological into the economic, reinscribing the privileged epistemological and ideological homelands of liquid modernity (Bauman). Such slippages underscore… read more here.
Keywords: eyeblink planet; philipp meyer; american rust; planet born ... See more keywords
Race and the Production of Extreme Land Abandonment in the American Rust Belt
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DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12588
Abstract: Abstract: Extreme land abandonment is one of the most visible expressions of urban decline. Conventional theory emphasizes housing lifecycle processes, municipal fiscal challenges and deindustrialization to explain its prevalence. Empirically however, these factors are not… read more here.
Keywords: abandonment american; land abandonment; extreme land; american rust ... See more keywords