Climate, Capitalism and Communities

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An Anthropology of Environmental Overheating

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Climate, Capitalism and Communities explores the intricate relationship between environmental change, economic systems, and societal responses. The authors examine how capitalist practices contribute to climate challenges and propose sustainable ways communities can adapt and thrive. With a focus on interdisciplinary approaches, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of how to balance economic growth with ecological stability.
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You might enjoy this insightful book if you're interested in exploring the connections between economic systems, environmental changes, and community resilience. It highlights the intersection of climate challenges and capitalism, providing a critical perspective on how communities worldwide are adapting and responding to these issues.

An anthropological perspective on the devastating environmental consequences of global capital's growth imperative.

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Until now, the growing body of work on environmental anthropology has largely ignored the unavoidable impact of global capitalism on the environment and the extent to which capital itself is a key driver of climate change.

Climate, Capitalism and Communities focuses explicitly on that nexus, examining the injustices and inequalities—as well as the activist responses—that have arisen as a result, and the contradictions between the imperatives of exponential economic growth, and those of environmental sustainability, and society as a whole.

Bringing an innovative, ethnographic toolkit to bear on a crisis that is at once global and highly localised, the authors shift attention away from the consequences of climate change, to a focus on the social relations and power structures that continue to prevent effective action.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780745339566

Publisher: Pluto Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 July 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Pluto Press

Illustration: 9 Figures

Contributors:

Edited by Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Edited by Astrid B. Stensrud

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 215.0mm

Weight: 323g

Pages: 256

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About the Author

Astrid B. Stensrud is Associate Professor at the Department of Global Development and Planning, University of Agder. She is the co-editor of Climate, Capitalism and Communities (Pluto, 2019) and a contributor to Waterworlds (Berghahn, 2016) and Identity Destabilised (Pluto, 2016). Thomas Hylland Eriksen (1962 – 2024) was Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and former President of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA). He was among the most highly cited anthropologists of his generation, and his classic and accessible textbook Small Places, Large Issues remains a cornerstone in anthropology courses. His later books, including Overheating, tackled the important issue of climate change within the discipline.