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Prosperous Pollutants: Bargaining with Risks and Forging Hopes in an Industrial Town in Serbia

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2016
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Jovanović, Deana
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The article explores the ‘work of hope’ in relation to air pollution and health hazards in Bor, a polluted copper-processing town in Eastern Serbia. The aim of this paper is to show the mutual imbrication of hope and risk by delineating how hope for a stable personal and communal future was anchored in the polluting company and the toxic substances it produced, which, in various ways, provided a sense of possibility and opportunity. I show how the work of hope demanded simultaneous weighing up, manoeuvring, accepting, and bargaining with risks that became an integral part of the work of hope in a social setting where the double bind of growth versus sustainability was deeply embedded. I argue that together, hope and risk were both framing devices for thinking about and living towards futures in a context of reindustrialisation and recent sudden economic flourishing in this post-socialist town.
Keywords:
work of hope / risk / double bind / air pollution / future
Source:
Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, 2016, 83, 3, 489-504

DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2016.1169205

ISSN: 0014-1844

WoS: 000432722600006

Scopus: 2-s2.0-84973912647
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