Acceleration and Cultural Change : Dialogues from an Overheated World / by Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Martina Visentin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eriksen, Thomas Hylland.

Contributor:

Visentin, Martina.

Series:

SpringerBriefs in Anthropology, 2195-0814

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology.

Ethnology.

Human ecology--Study and teaching.

Human ecology.

Bioclimatology.

Sociocultural Anthropology.

Environmental Studies.

Climate Change Ecology.

Local Subjects:

Sociology.

Sociocultural Anthropology.

Environmental Studies.

Climate Change Ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2024.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2024.

Summary:

This open access book includes socio-anthropological and anthropo-sociological conversations between one of the world’s leading anthropologists, Thomas Hyland Eriksen, and a young scholar, using his groundbreaking "overheating" approach.This book includes socio-anthropological and anthropo-sociological conversations between one of the world’s leading anthropologists, Thomas Hyland Eriksen, and a young scholar, using his groundbreaking "overheating" approach. From the pandemic to the spread of nationalism, from the Anthropocene to the Homogenocene, the authors discuss the most urgent issues of current society: e.g., the loss of biological and cultural diversity owing to the forces of globalisation; and the emergence of new forms of diversity through globalisation and migration; the intersectional dimension of climate change; the incredible rising of anger demonstrations around the world and resentful, overheated identities often linked to right-wing nationalism;the way digital devices have changed the meaning of temporality in people's life-worlds; the regulatory and competitive pressures on universities which are a result of many factors in the intersection of globalisation, massification and marketisation; youth's weakened belief in progress connected to changes in the contemporary world, such as growing inequality, political alienation and environmental destruction; recent pathbreaking research and original theory in sociology and anthropology related to the changes in an overheated world; and what post-Coronavirus social life might become. Highly topical, engaging and written in a conversational style, this book is a must-read for social scientists and discerning lay persons who want a fresh perspective on understanding the critical issues of our time. .

Contents:

Introduction to overheating approach: an Ariadne’s thread for the readers

First conversation: vulnerabilities and opportunities in a pandemic society

Second conversation: diversity and globalisation

Thirds conversation: the new diversities

Fourth conversation: climate change under overheating lens

Fifth conversation: days of rage

Sixth conversation: temporalities regimes in a platform society

Seventh conversation: fast vs slow academic. Why go on this road?

Eighth conversation: youth in an overheating world

Ninth conversation: sociology, anthropology and the world

Tenth conversation: overheating approach after Covid 19

Conclusions. An afterword. .

ISBN:

3-031-33099-4

OCLC:

1409700962