Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore

A powerful ethnographic study of South Baltimore, a place haunted by toxic pasts in its pursuit of...
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Author: Chloe Ahmann
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Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore by Ahmann, Chloe

Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore

$97.54

Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore

$97.54
Author: Chloe Ahmann
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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 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.

Author: Chloe Ahmann
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 05/14/2024
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.12w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9780226833613

About the Author
Chloe Ahmann is assistant professor of anthropology at Cornell University. This is her first book.

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