Overheating

04/09/2019

The latest publication in Pluto Press' Overheating book series is now available: 'Climate, Capitalism and Communities: An Antrhopology of Environmental Overheating' explores the contradictions between the imperatives of exponential economic growth, and those of environmental sustainability. Based on ethnographich research from a diversity of places such as the Arctic, Mongolia and Peru, the chapters explore the relations of power that continue to cause ecological crisis and prevent effective action. Thank you to all the authors who have contributed to this volume!

Until now, the growing body of work on environmental anthropology has largely ignored the unavoidable impact of global capitalism on the environment and the ...

08/04/2019

The Korean edition of "Overheating" just arrived. Nice cover!

09/12/2018

Another book in Pluto Press´ Overheating series is out now: ´Mining Encounters: Extractive Industries in an Overheated World´. Drawing upon research across a wide range of locations, Mining Encounters uncovers the tensions, negotiations and disparities between different actors in the extractive industries. A huge thanks to all the authors for their contributions!

The book is also part of Pluto Press annual Christmas sale and available at a 50% discount until December 11.

In a fast-changing world, where the extraction of natural resources is key to development, whilst also creating environmental and social disasters, understan...

09/10/2018

Cathrine Thorleifsson on the causes of populism. In Norwegian (but the book will be in English).

Hva tilbyr ytre høyre sine velgere?

26/08/2018

Overheating in Norway.

(In Norwegian.)

Hvis du gnir hendene mot hverandre, varmes de opp. Hvis du kunne akselerere denne friksjonen, ville hendene til slutt forkulles.

12/08/2018

Overheating at SAPIENS!

In today’s accelerating and overheating world, the gap between the people affected by change in local environments and the people in charge is growing ever wider.

10/08/2018

https://theecologist.org/profile/thomas-hylland-eriksson

Never mind the spelling of the name, but as a rule, Eriksen is Norwegian or Danish (as in Christian Eriksen, the footballer), while Eriksson is Swedish. The Ecologist has been informed about this...

Comment Industrialism and ambivalence on the Queensland coast: Part II Thomas Hylland Eriksson | 10th August 2018 Accelerated industrial growth in a neoliberal economy has had a profound impact on the local people of Gladstone, Australia. Read Part II of Professor THOMAS HYLLAND ERIKSSON exploration...

09/08/2018

https://www.sapiens.org/culture/globalization-downfall-gladstone-australia/

In today’s accelerating and overheating world, the gap between the people affected by change in local environments and the people in charge is growing ever wider.

10/05/2018

Another Overheating lecture available on YouTube, this time at Vytautus Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. Thanks to Vytis Ciubtinskas for hospitality, kindness and logistics, and thanks to the audience for listening and asking difficult questions!

Thomas Hylland Eriksen

(English description below) Gegužės 7-8 dienomis Vytauto Didžiojo universitete (VDU) lankėsi bei viešą paskaitą ir seminarą vedė Thomas Hyllandas Eriksenas –...

11/04/2018

Robert Pijpers on biofuels, misleading media coverage and the situation for farmers and workers in Sierra Leone. Things turn out to be more complex than they might seem.

Creating a story: Large-scale bioenergy production and its critics in Sierra Leone Posted on April 3, 2018 in Environmental anthropology and development sociology , 4 A sugarcane harvester on the Addax plantation (Robert Pijpers, 2014) ‘How thousands of farmers lost everything’ states the title ...

07/04/2018

For those who read Italian: Interview with Thomas about overheated identities, Breivik and the Five Star movement. But also about hope. Thanks to Giuseppe Terranova for this!

E’ la speranza l’antidoto a 5 stelle e Lega Dagli attentati che nel 2011 hanno insanguinato la pacifica Norvegia al boom dei movimenti populisti e anti-immigrati, passando per la crisi delle social democrazie europee. È di questo che abbiamo parlato con Thomas Hylland Erikssen professore di ant...

28/03/2018

For people who enjoy long podcasts: Thomas' recent lecture at Universitá di Roma Tor Vergata, the Global Governance programme, has been posted online, including the discussion, here:

21/03/2018 - Thomas Hylland Eriksen - Overheating and cooling down: Responses to a world out of control