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Acceleration and Cultural Change

Dialogues from an Overheated World

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Authors:
  1. Thomas Hylland Eriksen

    1. Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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  2. Martina Visentin

    1. Department of Political Science, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

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  • Reinterprets Eriksen's 'overheating' approach through a dialogue between two scholars
  • Showcases the power of dialogue as discourse, especially across the social sciences
  • Pushes towards deprivatisation of knowledge in the academy
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Lessons from the Pandemic: A Window of Opportunity?

    • Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Martina Visentin
    Pages 1-12Open Access
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  3. The Double Bind of Climate Change in Contemporary World Society

    • Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Martina Visentin
    Pages 13-26Open Access
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  4. Threats to Diversity in a Overheated World

    • Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Martina Visentin
    Pages 27-45Open Access
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  5. Unstable Identities

    • Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Martina Visentin
    Pages 47-56Open Access
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  6. Slow and Fast Academic Life

    • Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Martina Visentin
    Pages 57-67Open Access
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  7. Rage Days

    • Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Martina Visentin
    Pages 69-78Open Access
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  8. Living in a Digital World

    • Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Martina Visentin
    Pages 79-90Open Access
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  9. Public Engagement

    • Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Martina Visentin
    Pages 91-107Open Access
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  10. Back Matter

    Pages 109-111
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This open access book includes socio-anthropological and anthropo-sociological conversations between one of the world’s leading anthropologists, Thomas Hyland Eriksen, and a young scholar, using his groundbreaking "overheating" approach.This book includes socio-anthropological and anthropo-sociological conversations between one of the world’s leading anthropologists, Thomas Hyland Eriksen, and a young scholar, using his groundbreaking "overheating" approach. From the pandemic to the spread of nationalism, from the Anthropocene to the Homogenocene, the authors discuss the most urgent issues of current society: e.g., the loss of biological and cultural diversity owing to the forces of globalisation; and the emergence of new forms of diversity through globalisation and migration; the intersectional dimension of climate change; the incredible rising of anger demonstrations around the world and resentful, overheated identities often linked to right-wing nationalism;the way digital devices have changed the meaning of temporality in people's life-worlds; the regulatory and competitive pressures on universities which are a result of many factors in the intersection of globalisation, massification and marketisation; youth's weakened belief in progress connected to changes in the contemporary world, such as growing inequality, political alienation and environmental destruction; recent pathbreaking research and original theory in sociology and anthropology related to the changes in an overheated world; and what post-Coronavirus social life might become. Highly topical, engaging and written in a conversational style, this book is a must-read for social scientists and discerning lay persons who want a fresh perspective on understanding the critical issues of our time.  

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Thomas Hylland Eriksen

  • Department of Political Science, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

    Martina Visentin

About the authors

​Martina Visentin is a Senior Assistant Professor at the University of Padua. She teaches Introduction to Sociology and Social Policies (Faculty of Political Science) and her research interests focus on: social innovation in local welfare; social policies; higher education and changes in university students and researchers.

Thomas Hylland Eriksen has for many years studied, and written about, identity politics, ethnicity, nationalism and globalisation from a comparative perspective. He has also published popular books, textbooks, polemical books and essays on a variety of topics.

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