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Indlæser... Hinterland: America’s New Landscape of Class and Conflictaf Phil A. Neel
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Over the last forty years, the human landscape of the United States has been fundamentally transformed. The metamorphosis is partially visible in the ascendance of glittering, coastal hubs for finance, infotech, and the so-called creative class. But this is only the tip of an economic iceberg, the bulk of which lies in the darkness of the declining heartland or on the dimly lit fringe of sprawling cities. This is America's hinterland, populated by towering grain threshers and hunched farmworkers, where laborers drawn from every corner of the world crowd into factories and "fulfillment centers" and where cold storage trailers are filled with fentanyl-bloated corpses when the morgues cannot contain the dead. Urgent and unsparing, this book opens our eyes to America's new heart of darkness. Driven by an ever-expanding socioeconomic crisis, America's class structure is recomposing itself in new geographies of race, poverty, and production. The center has fallen. Riots ricochet from city to city led by no one in particular. Anarchists smash financial centers as a resurgent far right builds power in the countryside. Drawing on his direct experience of recent popular unrest, from the Occupy movement to the wave of riots and blockades that began in Ferguson, Missouri, Phil A. Neel provides a close-up view of this landscape in all its grim but captivating detail. Inaugurating the new Field Notes series, published in association with the Brooklyn Rail, Neel's book tells the intimate story of a life lived within America's hinterland. No library descriptions found. |
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This book did seem scattered, and it felt like Neel could have written more clearly edited books on every topic referenced here—the way that rural areas are decimated over time and the black markets that spring up there, the migration of rural people into urban areas and the process of becoming part of those places, and the urban organization of modern cities with an analysis of industrialized areas and demographic spread. The urgency carried this book beyond the scattered scope, but it feels like someone writing for the first time about issues, probably because I came into this knowing Neel is not from academia. He does not have the attitude that liberals should come in and change rural areas, which comes up when people from universities start this kind of analysis. Instead his writing sits on the edge of the coming revolution, looking over the groups that have succeeded elsewhere, at the rumblings of unrest in America. He doesn’t have a prescriptive solution, but he offers clues to what we might start to look for, which is in its own more honest way much more helpful. ( )