Alf Hornborg

Nature, Society, and Justice in the Anthropocene

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Money and market prices obscure an unequal global exchange of resources, which is a prerequisite to what we perceive as technological progress.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 598g
• ISBN-13: 9781108429375
• ISBN-10: 1108429378
• Artikelnr.: 54804272

Autorenporträt

Alf Hornborg is an anthropologist and the Professor of Human Ecology at Lunds Universitet, Sweden. He is the author of The Power of the Machine (2001), Global Ecology and Unequal Exchange (2011), and Global Magic (2016). He has conducted field research in Canada, Peru, and Brazil.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Rethinking economy and technology
2. The Anthropocene challenge to our worldview
3. Producing and obscuring global injustices
4. The money game
5. Anticipating degrowth
6. The ontology of technology
7. Energy technologies as time-space appropriation
8. Capitalism, energy and the logic of money
9. Unequal exchange and economic value
10. Subjects versus objects: artifacts have consequences, not agency
11. Anthropocene confusions: dithering while the planet burns
12. Animism, relationism and the ontological turn
13. Conclusions and possibilities
Afterword: confronting mainstream notions of progress.