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.
By:
Alf Hornborg
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 1st ed. 2016
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 140mm,
Spine: 13mm
Weight: 3.698kg
ISBN: 9781137567864
ISBN 10: 1137567864
Series: Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability
Pages: 201
Publication Date: 08 March 2016
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
Alf Hornborg is an anthropologist and Professor of Human Ecology at Lund University, Sweden.