Acceleration and Cultural Change : : Dialogues from an Overheated World.
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| Superior document: | SpringerBriefs in Anthropology Series |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2023. ©2024. |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | SpringerBriefs in Anthropology Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (130 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Preface
- How I Met THE
- Can a Cloud Be Photographed? How We Worked on the Book
- A Guide for Readers
- 1991: The Overheating Year
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Tensions of Overheated Globalization
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Lessons from the Pandemic: A Window of Opportunity?
- A Shared Shock
- Risks of Accelerated Smart Working
- Managing Contradictions and Hybrid Identities
- Digital Detox: Towards a Digital Slowing Down?
- Things to Be Learned from an Overheating Perspective
- Does This Overheated World Make People Happier?
- Metaphysics of Absence
- References
- Chapter 2: The Double Bind of Climate Change in Contemporary World Society
- Finding Ourselves at a Crossroads
- The Role of Governments in Climate Summit Meetings
- Climate Change and Environmental Destruction as a Double Bind
- Habitus and Reflexivity
- References
- Chapter 3: Threats to Diversity in a Overheated World
- Will Cultural Differences Continue to Exist?
- Overheating Effects and the Reduction of Diversity
- A Solution: Scaling Down in Different Dimensions of Our Lives
- Interlude: Conversation with a Social Worker About the First Pandemic Wave
- References
- Chapter 4: Unstable Identities
- Accelerated Change Out of Control and Social Identities
- A Fight Between David and Goliath
- Cooling Down Processes in the South
- Destabilized Identities
- Reference
- Chapter 5: Slow and Fast Academic Life
- A Dark Side of Academia
- Beyond the Ideal Types of Speed and Slowness
- Being a Production Worker in the Sausage Factory of Academia
- Slow vs Fast Academia
- Reference
- Chapter 6: Rage Days
- Loosing Control in Our Daily Life
- Populist Rage
- Simple Answers to Complex Questions
- Toxic Masculinity
- Coming to Trust as a Fundamental Concept
- Reference
- Chapter 7: Living in a Digital World.
- Smartphone and Refugees
- Smartphone and Time
- Between Synchronization and Desynchronization
- Between Personal and Social Time
- Towards Hybrid Time Regimes?
- References
- Chapter 8: Public Engagement
- The anthropologistś Audience
- Role of the Anthropologist
- Strategies of Communication
- Beyond Felix Bartholdyś Posture: Some Concluding Perspectives
- Have We Reached the Tipping Point?
- References
- References
- Essential Texts on Overheating
- Articles and Book Chapters.