Description
Book SynopsisAn international collection of ethnographic essays exploring the anthropology of the Anthropocene
Trade Review'This provocative and ethnographically diverse volume illuminates the complexities that shape attempts to reconcile social belonging and self-consciousness in today's world' -- Noel Dyck, Professor of Social Anthropology, Simon Fraser University
'Accelerated change may be a general characteristic of human life today, but the diverse and multi-facetted studies in this volume nevertheless document a significant variety of perceptions, reflections and agency in response to this volatile situation' -- Karen Fog Olwig, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen, co-editor of Climate Change and Human Mobility: Challenges to the Social Sciences (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
'A powerful book ... already a benchmark classic of its discipline' -- Manchester Review of Books
Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables
Preface
1. Introduction: The Art of Belonging in an Overheated World - Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Elisabeth Schober
2. Down With Identity! Long Live Humanity! - Jeremy MacClancy
3. Frozen Cosmopolitanism: Coping with Radical Deceleration in Cape Verdean Contexts of Forced Return Migration - Heike Drotbohm
4. ‘We Are All Strangers Here’: Transforming Land and Making Identity in a Desert Boomtown - Astrid B. Stensrud
5. Identifying with Accelerated Change: Modernity Embodied in Gladstone, Queensland - Thomas Hylland Eriksen
6. Guarding the Frontier: On Nationalism and Nostalgia in an Israeli Border Town - Cathrine Thorleifsson
7. Cultural Wounding and Healing: Change as Ongoing Cultural Production in a Remote Indigenous Australian Community - Amanda Kearney
8. Indigenous Endurance amidst Accelerated Change? The U.S. Military, South Korean Investors and the Aeta of Subic Bay, the Philippines - Elisabeth Schober
9. The Politics of Localness: Claiming Gains in Rural Sierra Leone - Robert J. Pijpers
10. Too Many Khans?: Old and New Elites in Afghanistan - Torunn Wimpelmann
11. Do Homosexuals Wear Moustaches? Controversies around the First Montenegrin Pride Parade - Branko Banovic
12. 'We're Far Too Far Down This Road Now to Worry about Morals': The Destabilising of Football Fans' Identities in an Overheated World - Keir Martin
13. Frozen Moments: Visualising the Polity in Times of Overheating - Iver B. Neumann
14. Eurovision Identities: Or, How Many Collective Identities Can One Anthropologist Possess? - Chris Hann
Notes on Contributors
Index
