Abstract
The new globalized landscape of capitalist development is characterized by the “annihilation of space by time” (Marx, 1973: 539) with its specific historical-geographical “time-space-compression” (Harvey, 2001: 123ff.). This process involves the emergence of (new) centres of international trade and finance, and of economic and political power. At the same time it leads to the decline of cities in de-industrialized and marginalized regions, which lose residents, social and technical infrastructures and political influence. David Harvey describes this process as “a factory of fragmentation”.
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“Plattenbauviertel” is the name of a residential area constructed of pre-fabricated concrete walls, or “Platten” in German language
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Heinrich wrote 2006 a song “Die Provinz” (The province) about his “ageing” hometown Sangerhausen in which he complaints ironically about the loss of workplaces and the destruction of houses and that there will be soon forest in the near future. This was regarded as a severe attack on the collective identity by local politicians and the mayor. Source: http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v = nre4uJ-q4aQ&feature = related [Last accessed on 20 June 2012]
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Focus group discussion, Sangerhausen, June 2011.
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Interview SH 02, Sangerhausen, June 2011.
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Interview SH 03, Sangerhausen, June 2011
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Interview SH 03, Sangerhausen, June 2011.
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Bürk, T. (2013). Voices From the Margin: The Stigmatization Process as an Effect of Socio-Spatial Peripheralization in Small-Town Germany1 . In: Fischer-Tahir, A., Naumann, M. (eds) Peripheralization. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-19018-1_8
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