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An Overheated World: An Anthropological History of the Early Twenty-first Century book cover

1st Edition

An Overheated World An Anthropological History of the Early Twenty-first Century

Edited By Thomas Hylland Eriksen Copyright 2018
162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge
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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.... Read more

1.Overheating: the world since 1991 Thomas Hylland Eriksen

2. Building a city: Korean capitalists and navy nostalgia in "overheated" Subic Bay Elisabeth Schober

3. Mining, expectations and turbulent times: locating accelerated change in rural Sierra Leone Robert J. Pijpers

4. Temporalities, time and the everyday: new technology as a marker of change in an Estonian mine Eeva Kesküla

5. The refugee crisis: destabilizing and restabilizing European borders Synnøve K. N. Bendixsen

6. From coal to Ukip: the struggle over identity in post-industrial Doncaster Cathrine Thorleifsson

7. Dreams of growth and fear of water crisis: the ambivalence of "progress" in the Majes-Siguas
Irrigation Project, Peru Astrid B. Stensrud

8. Creating and dissolving social groups from New Guinea to New York: on the overheating of bounded corporate entities in contemporary global capitalism Adam Leaver and Keir Martin

9. Overheated Underdogs: Civilizational Analysis and Migration on the Danube-Tisza Interfluve Chris Hann

Biography

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).

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