{"product_id":"futures-after-progress-chloe-ahmann-9780226833613","title":"Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore","description":"\u003cb\u003eA powerful ethnographic study of South Baltimore, a place haunted by toxic pasts in its pursuit of better futures.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Factory fires, chemical explosions, and aerial pollutants have inexorably shaped South Baltimore into one of the most polluted places in the country. In \u003ci\u003eFutures after Progress\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eFutures after Progress \u003c\/i\u003eprobes 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chloe Ahmann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226833615\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226833613\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/14\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 6.12w x 0.79d","brand":"Chloe Ahmann","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44829772284159,"sku":"9780226833613","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8ea103aa-212d-4e5a-967a-c5248b0472a2.jpg?v=1708451606","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/futures-after-progress-chloe-ahmann-9780226833613","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}