Hinterland

America’s New Landscape of Class and Conflict

Nonfiction, Travel, United States
Cover of the book Hinterland by Phil A. Neel, Reaktion Books
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Phil A. Neel ISBN: 9781780239453
Publisher: Reaktion Books Publication: March 15, 2018
Imprint: Reaktion Books Language: English
Author: Phil A. Neel
ISBN: 9781780239453
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Publication: March 15, 2018
Imprint: Reaktion Books
Language: English

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.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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.

More books from Reaktion Books

Cover of the book Korean Art from the 19th Century to the Present by Phil A. Neel
Cover of the book Flamingo by Phil A. Neel
Cover of the book Empire of Tea by Phil A. Neel
Cover of the book Berries by Phil A. Neel
Cover of the book C. R. Mackintosh by Phil A. Neel
Cover of the book The Contemporary Caribbean by Phil A. Neel
Cover of the book Dishing It Out by Phil A. Neel
Cover of the book Cheese by Phil A. Neel
Cover of the book Russia by Phil A. Neel
Cover of the book Animals in Film by Phil A. Neel
Cover of the book Edgar Allan Poe by Phil A. Neel
Cover of the book South Pole by Phil A. Neel
Cover of the book Chris Marker by Phil A. Neel
Cover of the book Karaoke by Phil A. Neel
Cover of the book Image on the Edge by Phil A. Neel
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy