Identity Destabilised: Living in an Overheated World

by Elisabeth Schober and Thomas Hylland Eriksen

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745399126
• ISBN13: 9780745399126
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.3"