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
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It is the age of the anthropocene, of humanity's indelible mark upon the planet.
The project overheating: the thr ee crises of globalisation or an anthropological history of the 21 st century eriksen focuses on the main global issues and crises: from climate.
Building a city: korean capitalists and navy nostalgia in overheated subic.
New book - overheating: an anthropology of accelerated change.
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.
12 apr 2017 a review of 'overheating: an anthropology of accelerated change', by thomas hylland eriksen, pluto press, by david o'kane (2016).
This article also introduces the overheating approach to globalization [eriksen, thomas hylland. London: pluto], indicating ways in which new forms of connectedness and acceleration can shed new light on phenomena such as neo-liberalism, identity politics and climate change.
In a very illustrative picture, this sentence summarizes overheating, which according to the subtitle, is an anthropology of accelerated change. It is a book about climate change and the environment, about urbanization and improvisational survivalism, tourism and migration, waste and inequality, excess and deprivation, based on the assumption that these “rapid changes characterizing the present age have important, sometimes dramatic, unintended consequences” (vii).
Overheating: an anthropology of accelerated change, by thomas hylland eriksen.
A major new intervention on the overarching challenges of modernity from one of the world's leading anthropologists. It is the age of the anthropocene, of humanity's indelible mark upon the planet.
Overheating consists of a series of interrelated ethnographic projects which aim to produce comparable and compatible data on the local perception, impact and management of the global crises. In this way, both the myopic bias of anthropology and the top-down approach of other social science are transcended.
Since its transformation into a largely fieldwork-based discipline, anthropologists working in tropical zones have had to grapple with heat. Yet, more often than not, heat is taken to be the natural background; resisting heat, ignoring it, a mark of the fieldworker’s fortitude and cross-cultural poise.
Thomas hylland eriksen outlines the concept of ' overheating', at the core of his new book for pluto press, published.
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. We live in a time of global crisis—or, more appropriately, crises: overlapping, interlocking global problems that are inextricably tied to modernity.
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