Hinterland
«`Imagine Patrick Leigh Fermor and Karl Marx on a road trip through the hubs and corridors of rust-belt America . . . Ambitious, polemical, brilliant.’ – Arlie Hochschild, author of Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right; `Phil A. Neel’s dazzling journeys through the burned-over landscapes of end-time capitalism – the despoiled remnants of rural America, the exfoliating zones of suburban poverty – compel us to rethink what class conflict looks like not only in America, but around the world.’– Steve Fraser, author of The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power»
Over the last forty years, the landscape of the United States has been fundamentally transformed. It is partially visible in the ascendance of glittering, coastal hubs for finance, infotech and the so-called `creative class’. Les mer
Drawing on his direct experience of recent popular unrest, Phil A. Neel provides a close-up view of this landscape in all its grim but captivating detail, and tells the intimate story of a life lived within America’s hinterland
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Reaktion Books
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781780239026
- Utgivelsesår
- 2018
- Format
- 22 x 14 cm
Anmeldelser
«`Imagine Patrick Leigh Fermor and Karl Marx on a road trip through the hubs and corridors of rust-belt America . . . Ambitious, polemical, brilliant.’ – Arlie Hochschild, author of Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right; `Phil A. Neel’s dazzling journeys through the burned-over landscapes of end-time capitalism – the despoiled remnants of rural America, the exfoliating zones of suburban poverty – compel us to rethink what class conflict looks like not only in America, but around the world.’– Steve Fraser, author of The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power»