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.
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