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Dispatches From Dystopia: Histories Of Places Not Yet Forgotten
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Why Are Kazakhstan And Montana The Same Place? Asks One Chapter Of Kate Browns Surprising And Unusual Journey Into The Histories Of Places On The Margins, Overlooked Or Erased. It Turns Out That A Ruined Mining Town In Kazakhstan And Butte, Montanaamericas Largest Environmental Superfund Sitehave Much More In Common Than One Would Think Thanks To Similarities In Climate, Hucksterism, And The Perseverance Of Their Few Hardy Inhabitants. Taking Readers To These And Other Unlikely Locales, Dispatches From Dystopia Delves Into The Very Human And Sometimes Very Fraught Ways We Come To Understand A Particular Place, Its People, And Its History.In Dispatches From Dystopia, Brown Wanders The Chernobyl Zone Of Alienation, First On The Internet And Then In Person, To Figure Out Which Versionthe Real Or The Virtualis The Actual Forgery. She Also Takes Us To The Basement Of A Hotel In Seattle To Examine The Personal Possessions Left In Storage By Japaneseamericans On Their Way To Internment Camps In 1942. In Uman, Ukraine, We Hide With Brown In A Tree In Order To Witness The Annual Maleonly Rosh Hashanah Celebration Of Hasidic Jews. In The Russian Southern Urals, She Speaks With The Citizens Of The Small City Of Kyshtym, Where Invisible Radioactive Pollutants Have Mysteriously Blighted Lives. Finally, Brown Returns Home To Elgin, Illinois, In The Midwestern Industrial Rust Belt To Investigate The Rise Of Rustalgia And The Ways Her Formative Experiences Have Inspired Her Obsession With Modernist Wastelands.Dispatches From Dystopia Powerfully And Movingly Narrates The Histories Of Locales That Have Been Silenced, Broken, Or Contaminated. In Telling These Previously Unknown Stories, Brown Examines The Making And Unmaking Of Place, And The Lives Of The People Who Remain In The Fragile Landscapes That Are Left Behind.
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