City, Industry and Health. Local Narratives about the Coke Plant in Bakar

Na primjeru koksare u Bakru zatvorene koncem 20. stoljeća, autori problematiziraju odnos industrije i grada sagledan iz perspektive lokalnoga stanovništva u suvremenosti. Rad kombinira polazišta urbanih studija, postindustrijske antropologije i studija javnozdravstvenih problema, a cilj mu je analizirati društvenu dinamiku i prijepore izazvane industrijalizacijom, kao i deindustrijalizacijom bakarskog područja. Autori se bave transformacijama koje politike i prakse (de)industrijalizacije izazivaju u ljudskoj svakodnevici u drugoj polovici 20. stoljeća. Fokus je na naracijama građana Bakra o utjecaju koksare na onečišćenje okoliša i kvalitetu života, ponajviše u zdravstvenom pogledu. Autori revaloriziraju pojam postindustrijskoga grada, propitujući što znači živjeti u gradu obremenjenom industrijskom prošlošću danas.Using the example of the coke plant in Bakar that was shut down at the end of the twentieth century, the authors discuss the relationship between industry and the city as seen through the contemporary viewpoint of the local inhabitants. The article combines the notions of urban studies, post-industrial anthropology and studies of public health issues to analyse the social dynamics and clashes caused by industrialisation and deindustrialisation in and around Bakar. The authors deal with the transformations in people’s everyday lives caused by the politics and practices of (de)industrialisation in the second half of the twentieth century. The focus is on narratives from Bakar inhabitants related to the impact of the coke plant on environmental pollution and quality of life, primarily in terms of health. The authors re-examine the term “post-industrial city” and question what means to live in a town burdened by its industrial past