Nature, Society, and Justice in the Anthropocene - Unraveling the Money-Energy-Technology Complex

This book shows how money and technology have shaped our thinking and social and ecological relations, with disturbing consequences. It offers solutions for their redesign in ways that will promote justice and sustainability. It is aimed at scholars and advanced students in environmental studies, economics, archaeology and social theory.

List of contents

1. Rethinking economy and technology; 2. The Anthropocene challenge to our worldview; 3. Producing and obscuring global injustices; 4. The money game; 5. Anticipating degrowth; 6. The ontology of technology; 7. Energy technologies as time-space appropriation; 8. Capitalism, energy and the logic of money; 9. Unequal exchange and economic value; 10. Subjects versus objects: artifacts have consequences, not agency; 11. Anthropocene confusions: dithering while the planet burns; 12. Animism, relationism and the ontological turn; 13. Conclusions and possibilities; Afterword: confronting mainstream notions of progress.

About the author

Alf Hornborg is an anthropologist and the Professor of Human Ecology at Lunds Universitet, Sweden. He is the author of The Power of the Machine (2001), Global Ecology and Unequal Exchange (2011), and Global Magic (2016). He has conducted field research in Canada, Peru, and Brazil.

Summary

This book shows how money and technology have shaped our thinking and social and ecological relations, with disturbing consequences. It offers solutions for their redesign in ways that will promote justice and sustainability. It is aimed at scholars and advanced students in environmental studies, economics, archaeology and social theory.

Product details

• Authors: Alf Hornborg, Alf (Lunds Universitet Hornborg, Hornborg Alf
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781108454193
• ISBN: 978-1-108-45419-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: New Directions in Sustainability and Society
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, Anthropology, Conservation of the environment, Social impact of environmental issues, Environmentalist, Conservationist & Green Organizations, Environmentalist, conservationist and Green organizations, Environmental archaeology