{"product_id":"staging-the-promises-everyday-future-making-in-a-serbian-industrial-town-hardback-9781501779091","title":"Staging the Promises; Everyday Future-Making in a Serbian Industrial Town (Hardback) 9781501779091","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eStaging the Promises\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEveryday Future-Making in a Serbian Industrial Town\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDeana Jovanović (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501779091\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 January 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e246 pages, 21 b\u0026amp;w halftones, 2 maps - 21 Halftones, black and white - 2 Maps\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStaging the Promises\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e reveals how inhabitants of Bor, a Serbian copper-processing and mining town that lived through prosperous Yugoslav times and a post-socialist decline, were the audience theatrically performed promises of aspirational futures. \u003c\/b\u003eDeana Jovanović chronicles the efforts of the copper-processing company and the town's authorities to theatrically perform promises of better economic, urban, environmental, infrastructural and post-industrial futures. Her book asks: What impact did the staging of promises have on the residents? What temporal, material, and political effects did these performances generate? How did they shape the citizens' futures and their present?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJovanović offers many ethnographic examples of ambivalence in people's orientation to their futures, while residents balanced hope with despair, disillusionment, and dismay. Staging the Promises highlights how the performances shaped the present, and how, in a Gramscian twist, they sustained hope alongside power dynamics that residents often criticized.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStaging the Promises\u003c\/i\u003e assesses the performative ways through which contemporary capitalist futures are remade. For Jovanović, Bor represents a site that reflects a current global trend: staging the promises of enhanced futures today play a significant role in contemporary populist politics. Through them, she argues, distant futures become gradually withdrawn from people's horizons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Fabricating\u003cbr\u003e Mimicking\u003cbr\u003e Bargaining\u003cbr\u003e (Dis)Connecting: Infrastructures and Thermopolitics of Hope\u003cbr\u003e Pretending\u003cbr\u003e Accelerating\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52610535293208,"sku":"9781501779091","price":90.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/staging-the-promises-everyday-future-making-in-a-serbian-industrial-town-hardback-9781501779091","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}