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An Overheated World - An Anthropological History of the Early Twenty-first Century (Paperback)
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An Overheated World - An Anthropological History of the Early Twenty-first Century (Paperback)
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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. At a
global level, some of the substantial areas where change has
accelerated are, apart from the spectacular spread of new
information technology, tourism, foreign direct investment,
urbanisation, resource extraction through mining, energy use,
species extinction, displacement, and international trade. These
and other changes are, needless to say, perceived and acted upon
differently in different countries and localities, and in order to
understand the implications of the present acceleration of history,
they have to be explored locally. This book gives a compelling
perspective on the contemporary, 'overheated' world, presenting
ethnographic material from many countries and weaving the local and
particular together with large-scale global acceleration. This book
was first published as a special issue of History and Anthropology.
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