num_pages: 192
description: We live in a time of global crisisor more appropriately overlapping interlocking global problems that are inextricably tied to modernity. Overheating offers a groundbreaking new way of looking at the problems of the Anthropocene exploring crises of the environment economy and identity through an anthropological lens. Thomas Hylland Eriksen argues that while each of these crises is global in scope they are nonetheless perceived and responded to locallyand that once we realize that we begin to see the contradictions that abound between the standardizing forces of global capitalism and the socially embedded nature of people and local practices. Only by acknowledging the primacy of the local Eriksen shows can we begin to even properly understand let alone address these problems on a global scale. 
language: English
title: Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change
publisher: Pluto Press