Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change

Eriksen, Thomas Hylland

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0745336345 ISBN 13: 9780745336343

Casa editrice: Pluto Pr, 2016

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, offers an innovative new perspective on issues including energy use, urbanisation, deprivation, human (im)mobility, and the spread of interconnected, wireless information technology.

L'autore:

Thomas Hylland Eriksen is professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo and the author of many books, including Ethnicity and Nationalism: A History of Anthropology and Small Places, Large Issues.