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Prosperous Pollutants: Bargaining with Risks and Forging Hopes in an Industrial Town in Serbia
- Source :
- Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- The article explores the ‘work of hope’ in relation to air pollution and health hazards in Bor, a polluted copper-processing town in Eastern Serbia. The aim of this paper is to show the mutual imbrication of hope and risk by delineating how hope for a stable personal and communal future was anchored in the polluting company and the toxic substances it produced, which, in various ways, provided a sense of possibility and opportunity. I show how the work of hope demanded simultaneous weighing up, manoeuvring, accepting, and bargaining with risks that became an integral part of the work of hope in a social setting where the double bind of growth versus sustainability was deeply embedded. I argue that together, hope and risk were both framing devices for thinking about and living towards futures in a context of reindustrialisation and recent sudden economic flourishing in this post-socialist town.
Details
- Database :
- OAIster
- Journal :
- Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology
- Notes :
- Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, English
- Publication Type :
- Electronic Resource
- Accession number :
- edsoai.on1363094184
- Document Type :
- Electronic Resource