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PublisherPluto Press

ISBN-100745336345

ISBN-139780745336343

eBay Product ID (ePID)219408602

Product Key Features

Number of Pages192 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameOverheating : an Anthropology of Accelerated Change

Publication Year2016

SubjectPhilosophy & Social Aspects, Globalization, Anthropology / General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science, Science

AuthorThomas Hylland Eriksen

FormatUk-Trade Paper

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight8.9 Oz

Item Length8.4 in

Item Width5.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2022-436212

Dewey Edition23

Number of Volumes1 vol.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal303.484

Table Of ContentList of Illustrations Preface 1. Le Monde est Trop Plein 2. A Conceptual Inventory 3. Energy 4. Mobility 5. Cities 6. Waste 7. Information Overload 8. Clashing Scales: Understanding Overheating Bibliography Index

SynopsisA major new intervention on the overarching challenges of modernity from one of the world's leading anthropologists, We live in a time of global crisis--or, more appropriately, crises: overlapping, interlocking global problems that are inextricably tied to modernity. Overheating offers a groundbreaking new way of looking at the problems of the Anthropocene, exploring crises of the environment, economy, and identity through an anthropological lens. Thomas Hylland Eriksen argues that while each of these crises is global in scope, they are nonetheless perceived and responded to locally--and that once we realize that, we begin to see the contradictions that abound between the standardizing forces of global capitalism and the socially embedded nature of people and local practices. Only by acknowledging the primacy of the local, Eriksen shows, can we begin to even properly understand, let alone address, these problems on a global scale., 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. 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. 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.

LC Classification NumberHM831