Details
Overheating
An Anthropology of Accelerated Change1. Aufl.
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124,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Pluto Press |
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| Veröffentl.: | 20.06.2016 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781783719846 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 192 |
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Beschreibungen
The world is overheated. Too full and too fast; uneven and unequal. It is the age of the Anthropocene, of humanity’s indelible mark upon the planet. In short, it is globalisation - but not as we know it.
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<br> In this groundbreaking book, Thomas Hylland Eriksen breathes new life into the discussion around global modernity, bringing an anthropologist’s approach to bear on the three interrelated crises of environment, economy and identity. He argues that although these crises are global in scope, they are perceived and responded to locally, and that contradictions abound between the standardising forces of information-age global capitalism and the socially embedded nature of people and local practices.
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<br> Carefully synthesising the ethnographic and comparative methods of anthropology with macrosocial and historical material, Overheating offers an innovative new perspective on issues including energy use, urbanisation, deprivation, human (im)mobility, and the spread of interconnected, wireless information technology.
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<br> In this groundbreaking book, Thomas Hylland Eriksen breathes new life into the discussion around global modernity, bringing an anthropologist’s approach to bear on the three interrelated crises of environment, economy and identity. He argues that although these crises are global in scope, they are perceived and responded to locally, and that contradictions abound between the standardising forces of information-age global capitalism and the socially embedded nature of people and local practices.
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<br> Carefully synthesising the ethnographic and comparative methods of anthropology with macrosocial and historical material, Overheating offers an innovative new perspective on issues including energy use, urbanisation, deprivation, human (im)mobility, and the spread of interconnected, wireless information technology.
A major new intervention on the overarching challenges of modernity from one of the world’s leading anthropologists
List of Illustrations
<br> Preface
<br> 1. Le Monde est Trop Plein
<br> 2. A Conceptual Inventory
<br> 3. Energy
<br> 4. Mobility
<br> 5. Cities
<br> 6. Waste
<br> 7. Information Overload
<br> 8. Clashing Scales: Understanding Overheating
<br> Bibliography
<br> Index
<br> Preface
<br> 1. Le Monde est Trop Plein
<br> 2. A Conceptual Inventory
<br> 3. Energy
<br> 4. Mobility
<br> 5. Cities
<br> 6. Waste
<br> 7. Information Overload
<br> 8. Clashing Scales: Understanding Overheating
<br> Bibliography
<br> Index
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