An Overheated World: An Anthropological History of the Early Twenty-first Century

Book Overview

Although economic, cultural and demographic changes are part and parcel of the modern world, changes in a number of areas have accelerated in the last quarter-century - a period sometimes spoken of as the global information society, a world of 'liquid modernity' - or of fully-fledged global neoliberalism associated with deregulation, flexible accumulation and financialisation.　　　

At a global level, some of the substantial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367229978
• ISBN13: 9780367229979
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.8" x 9.7"