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 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, anthropo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ahmann, Chloe (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : London : The University of Chicago Press, [2024]
Subjects:	Industries > Environmental aspects > Maryland > Curtis Bay. Air > Pollution > Health aspects > Maryland > Curtis Bay. Environmental justice > Maryland > Curtis Bay. Environmental sociology > Maryland > Curtis Bay. Curtis Bay (Md.) > Environmental conditions > Social aspects. SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. late industrialism, United States, toxicity, uncertainty, environmental governance, urban history, speculation, social movements, atmosphere, Baltimore. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Intro
Contents
Map of the Curtis Bay Region
Preface: The Dust
Introduction. Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore
Part One: A Cautionary Tale
Impossible to Say
Chapter One. Forgotten in Anticipation
Little Boxes
Chapter Two. Cataclysmic Hypotheticals
Buying Time
Chapter Three. Could've Been Worse
Part Two: Not How the Story Ends
Beautiful City
Chapter Four. Art of the Possible
Out of Nothing
Chapter Five. Tick, Tick, BOOM
A Black Hole
Epilogue. Ethnography in the Subjunctive
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index