Overheating : An Anthropology of Accelerated Change
Overheating : An Anthropology of Accelerated Change We live in a time of global crisis--or, more appropriately, crises: overlapping, interlocking global problems that are inextricably tied to…
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Overheating : An Anthropology of Accelerated Change
We live in a time of global crisis--or, more appropriately, crises: overlapping, interlocking global problems that are inextricably tied to modernity. Thomas Hylland Eriksen argues that while each of these crises is global in scope, they are nonetheless perceived and responded to locally--and that once we realize that, we begin to see the contradictions that abound between the standardizing forces of global capitalism and the socially embedded nature of people and local practices. 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.
Only by acknowledging the primacy of the local, Eriksen shows, can we begin to even properly understand, let alone address, these problems on a global scale.
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