摘要
【Abstract】This article is an autoethnographic exploration of life in the former steel mill region of Southeast Chicago in the ‘Rust Belt’ of the Midwestern United States. It challenges assumptions about deindustrialization that depict one discrete historical stage following another (i.e., the postindustrial following the industrial) in favor of what is here defined as the ‘paraindustrial’ (or a setting in which active industry with minimal numbers of workers exists alongside defunct industry and toxic brownfields). This account centers upon the experiences of women who have too often been neglected in research on deindustrialized regions. In particular, it focuses on the author's elderly mother Arlene who has spent her entire life in Southeast Chicago. From her wheelchair on a backyard porch, Arlene observes this damaged landscape built out of the former Calumet wetlands. The article considers the relationships of care, centered around women, that continue to bind together and support the living despite decades of economic and environmental rupture and degradation. Utilizing the concept of a ‘palimpsest,’ the piece considers how different historical, ecological, and social realities and temporalities are both layered on top of each other and intermingle to create the complex landscape found in this former wetland region.
摘要译文
【摘要】本文是对美国中西部中西部“锈带”的前芝加哥钢铁磨坊地区对生命的自通探索。它挑战了关于去工业化的假设，该假设描绘了一个遵循另一个离职的历史阶段（即工业后的工业后工业阶段），以支持此处定义为“对教养工业”（或一个具有最少工人数量的活跃行业，而有大量工人的行业存在与旁边的工业和毒性棕色”）。该帐户集中在对去工业化地区的研究中经常被忽略的妇女的经历。特别是，它专注于作者的老年母亲阿琳（Arlene），她一生都在芝加哥东南部度过。阿琳（Arlene）从后院门廊的轮椅上坐在轮椅上，观察到了这座由前卡鲁梅特湿地建造的受损景观。文章认为，尽管经济和环境破裂和退化数十年，但仍围绕妇女围绕妇女的护理关系，这些关系继续束缚并支持生活。该作品利用“淡淡的最高点”的概念考虑了如何将不同的历史，生态和社会现实和时间性彼此分层，并混合在一起，以创造出在这座前湿地地区中发现的复杂景观。
Christine J. Walley (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6014-3167) [1];. Living in the Paraindustrial[J]. American Anthropologist, 2025,127(1): 131-139