An Overheated World

An Anthropological History of the Early Twenty-first Century
Herausgeber: Hylland Eriksen, Thomas

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Although economic, cultural and demographic changes are part and parcel of the modern world, changes in a number of areas have accelerated in the last quarter-century - a period sometimes spoken of as the global information society, a world of 'liquid modernity' - or of fully-fledged global neoliberalism associated with deregulation, flexible accumulation and financialisation. 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9781138742222
• ISBN-10: 1138742228
• Artikelnr.: 57051471

Autorenporträt

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