Slow down, cool down and scale down. Answers for an out-of-control world
€ 3.00There is an accelerated change underway all around us today: at the start of the twentieth century, the world population was 1.5 billion people, at the century’s end, that figure had increased to nearly seven billion. And today we are even more numerous and increasingly connected to each other. Compared to previous generations, we produce more, exchange more, travel more, consume more and use more energy. This is why we live on an overheated planet which, translated into the language of social science, can indicate accelerated change. The unwanted side effects are also accelerated: pollution, climate change, alienation … So, to avoid the end of the world as we know it, the human race must repurpose a ship - one which has already set sail - at the global but also local level. In a nutshell, we must slow down, cool down and scale down.
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Thomas Hylland Eriksen is a Norwegian anthropologist who teaches Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and serves as the President of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science. Much of his work is comparative and interdisciplinary. His field research from Trinidad to Australia to Norway has focused on several ethnically and culturally complex societies. His work has tackled themes such as ethnicity and the dynamics of culture and identity, cosmopolitism, human rights, globalisation and its implications for the study of culture and society. He is currently working on the contradictions between economic growth and environmental sustainability. His published works include: Tyranny of the Moment: Fast and Slow Time in the Information Age (Elèuthera, 2003) and Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change (Einaudi, 2017).
Thomas Hylland Eriksen & i Dialoghi
2018
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