
Overheating
An Anthropology of Accelerated Change
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Release date: 2016-06-20
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 three interrelated crises of environment, economy and identity. He argues that although these crises are global in scope, they are perceived and responded to locally, and that contradictions abound between the standardising forces of information-age global capitalism and the socially embedded nature of people and local practices.
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.
Other books by Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Anthropology, Culture and Society
What is Anthropology? - Second Edition
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
A new edition of the classic anthropology textbook which shows how anthropology is a revolutionary way of thinking about the human world.

Anthropology, Culture and Society
Small Places, Large Issues - Fourth Edition
An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
The classic introduction to social and cultural anthropology, now updated.

Anthropology, Culture and Society
Ethnicity and Nationalism - Third Edition
Anthropological Perspectives
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
New edition of this core text for all students of social anthropology. Additions include cultural property rights and commercialisation of identity.

Boomtown
Runaway Globalisation on the Queensland Coast
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
An anthropological study of a community 'marinated' in fossil fuels, fraught by ambivalence and conflict.