Alf Hornborg (Sweden Lunds Universitet)

Nature, Society, and Justice in the Anthropocene

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book shows how money and technology have shaped our thinking and social and ecological relations, with disturbing consequences. It offers solutions for their redesign in ways that will promote justice and sustainability. It is aimed at scholars and advanced students in environmental studies, economics, archaeology and social theory.

Produktdetails

• New Directions in Sustainability and Society
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 436g
• ISBN-13: 9781108454193
• ISBN-10: 1108454194
• Artikelnr.: 61444760

Autorenporträt

Alf Hornborg is an anthropologist and the Professor of Human Ecology at Lunds Universitet, Sweden. He is the author of The Power of the Machine (2001), Global Ecology and Unequal Exchange (2011), and Global Magic (2016). He has conducted field research in Canada, Peru, and Brazil.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Rethinking economy and technology
2. The Anthropocene challenge to our worldview
3. Producing and obscuring global injustices
4. The money game
5. Anticipating degrowth
6. The ontology of technology
7. Energy technologies as time-space appropriation
8. Capitalism, energy and the logic of money
9. Unequal exchange and economic value
10. Subjects versus objects: artifacts have consequences, not agency
11. Anthropocene confusions: dithering while the planet burns
12. Animism, relationism and the ontological turn
13. Conclusions and possibilities
Afterword: confronting mainstream notions of progress.