Global Magic
Subtitle: Technologies of Appropriation from Ancient Rome to Wall Street
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Mar 08, 2016
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9781137567864
Description: Modern thought on economics and technology is no less magical than the world views of non-modern peoples. This book reveals how our ideas about growth and progress ignore how money and machines throughout history have been used to exploit less affluent parts of world society. The argument critically explores a middle ground between Marxist political ecology and Actor-Network Theory.
Notes: Source title: Global Magic: Technologies of Appropriation from Ancient Rome to Wall Street (Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability)