Overheating

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!

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

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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...

Thomas Hylland Eriksson | The Ecologist 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...

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.

Leiden Anthropology Blog - Articles - Creating a story: Large-scale bioenergy production and its critics in Sierra Leone 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 ...