
Identity Destabilised
Living in an Overheated World
By: Elisabeth Schober (Editor), Thomas Hylland Eriksen (Editor)
Paperback | 20 October 2016
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The world is overheated: Too full and too fast; out of sync, contradiction-ridden and unequal. It is the age of the Anthropocene, of humanity's indelible mark upon the planet. In short, it is globalisation - but not as we know it.
This collection explores social identities in today's 'overheated' world, seen from an anthropological perspective. The focus is on contradictions, tensions and paradoxes: How can an identity be stable if its border is constantly shifting? How can a community survive if it is incorporated into a huge entity? How does belonging work in new cities? And what can indigenous peoples do to retain a sense of self in a fast-moving neoliberal world?
Ethnographically rich and diverse in its scope, Identity Destabilised contains chapters from many parts of the world, including the Philippines, Israel, Australia, the Cape Verde Islands and Afghanistan. The authors investigate how identity changes in response to contemporary forces, from rapid industrialisation, the enforced return of migrants and the silencing of indigenous groups to sudden population growth in boomtowns and the touristification of local culture.
Industry Reviews
'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
ISBN: 9780745399126
ISBN-10: 0745399126
Published: 20th October 2016
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 272
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publisher: Pluto Books Ltd
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 21.5 x 14 x 2
Weight (kg): 0.35
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