Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

One of Times Higher Education's Best Books of 2015 Winner of the 2016 Gregory Bateson Prize, The Society for Cultural Anthropology One of Flavorwire's 10 Best Books by Academic Publishers in 2015 Winner of the 2016 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology One of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 in Business and Economics One...

What the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around us. Rubbing two sticks together produces heat and light, while one stick alone is just a stick. It is the friction that produces movement, action, and effect. Anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing challenges the widespread view that globalisation invariably signifies a clash...