This book gives a compelling perspective on the contemporary, `overheated¿ world, presenting ethnographic material from many countries and weaving the local and particular together with large-scale global acceleration. This book was first published as a special issue of History and Anthropology.
This book gives a compelling perspective on the contemporary, `overheated¿ world, presenting ethnographic material from many countries and weaving the local and particular together with large-scale global acceleration. This book was first published as a special issue of History and Anthropology.
Thomas Hylland Eriksen is a Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and was PI of the ERC AdvGR project 'Overheating' (2012-2017).
Inhaltsangabe
1. Overheating: the world since 1991 2. Building a city: Korean capitalists and navy nostalgia in "overheated" Subic Bay 3. Mining, expectations and turbulent times: locating accelerated change in rural Sierra Leone 4. Temporalities, time and the everyday: new technology as a marker of change in an Estonian mine 5. The refugee crisis: destabilizing and restabilizing European borders 6. From coal to Ukip: the struggle over identity in post-industrial Doncaster 7. Dreams of growth and fear of water crisis: the ambivalence of "progress" in the Majes-Siguas Irrigation Project, Peru 8. Creating and dissolving social groups from New Guinea to New York: on the overheating of bounded corporate entities in contemporary global capitalism 9. Overheated Underdogs: Civilizational Analysis and Migration on the Danube-Tisza Interfluve
1. Overheating: the world since 1991 2. Building a city: Korean capitalists and navy nostalgia in "overheated" Subic Bay 3. Mining, expectations and turbulent times: locating accelerated change in rural Sierra Leone 4. Temporalities, time and the everyday: new technology as a marker of change in an Estonian mine 5. The refugee crisis: destabilizing and restabilizing European borders 6. From coal to Ukip: the struggle over identity in post-industrial Doncaster 7. Dreams of growth and fear of water crisis: the ambivalence of "progress" in the Majes-Siguas Irrigation Project, Peru 8. Creating and dissolving social groups from New Guinea to New York: on the overheating of bounded corporate entities in contemporary global capitalism 9. Overheated Underdogs: Civilizational Analysis and Migration on the Danube-Tisza Interfluve
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