An Overheated World: An Anthropological History Of The Early Twenty-First Century - 9781138742222

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. 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.

• | Author: Thomas Hylland Eriksen
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Jul 27, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 152 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138742228
• | ISBN-13: 9781138742222