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10 March, 2016

Tourism and the Globalization of Emotions. The Intimate Economy of Tango.

[Reissue] New York: Routledge. Throughout the chapters, the author assesses how, in an explosive economic and political context, people's emotional lives intermingle with a tourism industry that has fo

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18 September, 2015

Thomas Hylland Eriksen: Overheating

Overheating. Understanding accelerated change. Thomas Hylland Eriksen, professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo. ABSTRACTThe contemporary world is … too full? Too intense? All of the above, and more. Ours is a world of high-speed modernity where exponential growth can be found in domains as different as the number of cellphones in Africa and the number of international tourist arrivals. The fossil fuel revolution two centuries ago led to the contemporary ‘overheated’ world of exponential growth. The main dilemma of this overheated world is the insight that what was the salvation for humanity for two hundred years, namely fossil fuels, has rapidly become our damnation owing to climate change. This lecture outlines the parameters of ‘overheating’ and describes the main global challenges for our century.

Overheating. Understanding accelerated change.
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12 June, 2011

Labour Migrants Unbound?

Institutet för Framtidsstudiers skriftserie: Framtidens samhälle nr 2, 2006 The future always seems to come as a surprise. A good example would be the eastern enlargement of the EU two years ago. Regar

Type of publication: IFFS reports | Kristof Tamas and Rainer Münz
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