Acceleration and Cultural Change Dialogues from an Overheated World

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eriksen, Thomas Hylland (-)
Other Authors: Visentin, Martina
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing 2024.
Edition:1st ed. 2024.
Series:SpringerBriefs in Anthropology,
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009781194006719
Table of 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. .