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Dr Felix Ringel's Outputs (5)

Tides of Concrete: Sensing Infrastructural Times in a Former Socialist Model City (2021)
Journal Article
Ringel, F. (2021). Tides of Concrete: Sensing Infrastructural Times in a Former Socialist Model City. Roadsides, 006, 72-80. https://doi.org/10.26034/roadsides-202100610

This is an episodic sensorial biography (Desjarlais 2003) of a city made of concrete. It recounts how urban modernist infrastructures, shaped by their main construction material, created a new historical-sensorial experience. It tracks an infrastruct... Read More about Tides of Concrete: Sensing Infrastructural Times in a Former Socialist Model City.

Contextualising Expectations: Reconfiguring Progressive Politics in the Post-Industrial Era (2021)
Book Chapter
Ringel, F. (2021). Contextualising Expectations: Reconfiguring Progressive Politics in the Post-Industrial Era. In E. Kirtsoglou, & B. Simpson (Eds.), The time of anthropology : studies of contemporary chronopolitics. Routledge

Like the rest of this volume, this paper emerges out of the 2016 annual meeting of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth (ASA). The conference took place just ten days after the UK referendum on EU membe... Read More about Contextualising Expectations: Reconfiguring Progressive Politics in the Post-Industrial Era.

Postsocialist Dialectics or Postindustrial Critique? On Discomfort in a Former Socialist Model City in East Germany (2021)
Journal Article
Ringel, F. (2021). Postsocialist Dialectics or Postindustrial Critique? On Discomfort in a Former Socialist Model City in East Germany. Europe-Asia Studies, 73(9), 1748-1767. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2021.1998380

Over the last 30 years, the inhabitants of Hoyerswerda, the German Democratic Republic’s second socialist model city, have struggled through de-industrialisation, unemployment, outmigration and urban decay. With the help of Karl Polanyi’s concept of... Read More about Postsocialist Dialectics or Postindustrial Critique? On Discomfort in a Former Socialist Model City in East Germany.

Future-Making in Times of Urban Sustainability: Maintenance and Endurance as Progressive Alternatives in the Postindustrial Era (2021)
Book Chapter
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

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,... Read More about Future-Making in Times of Urban Sustainability: Maintenance and Endurance as Progressive Alternatives in the Postindustrial Era.