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Futures After Progress Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore

Paperback • 2024 • English

Futures After Progress Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore

By Chloe Ahmann

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About the book

A 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 h...Show more

Anthropology
Social and cultural anthropology
Climate change

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ISBN

9780226833613

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published year

2024

Language

English

Original title

Futures After Progress Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore

Format

Paperback

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