An Overheated World: An Anthropological History of the Early Twenty-first Century

Although economic, cultural and demographic changes are part and parcel of the modern world, changes in a number of areas have accelerated in the last quarter-century – a period sometimes spoken of as the global information society, a world of ‘liquid modernity’ – or of fully-fledged global neoliberalism associated with deregulation, flexible accumulation and financialisation.

At a global level, some of the substantial areas where change has accelerated are, apart from the spectacular sprea...