Deindustrialization and the Future: Experiences after the Bankruptcy of the Mura Factory
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future, deindustrialization, textile workers, experiences of time, SloveniaAbstract
The article focuses on the temporal experiences of the industrial workers after the bankruptcy of the Mura garment factory in 2009 and their place in the vision of the future development of Murska Sobota and Pomurje. It calls for the inclusion of industrial workers in anthropological studies of the future, including in the critique of their public and academic representation as past-oriented subjects.
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