Global Magic

Technologies of Appropriation from Ancient Rome to Wall Street

Alf Hornborg (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

201 Seiten

2016 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-56786-4 (ISBN)

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Modern thought on economics and technology is no less magical than the world views of non-modern peoples. This book reveals how our ideas about growth and progress ignore how money and machines throughout history have been used to exploit less affluent parts of world society. The argument critically explores a middle ground between Marxist political ecology and Actor-Network Theory.

Alf Hornborg is an anthropologist and Professor of Human Ecology at Lund University, Sweden.

1. The Ecology of Things: Artifacts as Embodied Relations
2. Land, Energy, and Value in the Technocene
3. The Magic of Money
4. Empires, World-Systems, and Expanding Markets
5. Money as Fictive Energy: Unraveling the Relation between Economics and Physics
6. Agency, Ontology, and Global Magic
7. The Political Ecology of Technological Utopianism
8. Redesigning Money to Curb Globalization and Increase Resilience
9. Conclusions: Money, Technology, and Magic

Erscheinungsdatum	21.04.2016
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability
Zusatzinfo	X, 201 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-137-56786-4 / 1137567864
ISBN-13	978-1-137-56786-4 / 9781137567864
Zustand	Neuware