Acceleration and Cultural Change : : Dialogues from an Overheated World.

• Superior document: SpringerBriefs in Anthropology Series
• Author: Eriksen, Thomas Hylland.
• TeilnehmendeR: Visentin, Martina.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2023.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Anthropology Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (0 pages)

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 anthropologist´s Audience -- Role of the Anthropologist -- Strategies of Communication -- Beyond Felix Bartholdy´s Posture: Some Concluding Perspectives -- Have We Reached the Tipping Point? -- References -- References -- Essential Texts on Overheating -- Articles and Book Chapters.