Global Ecology and Unequal Exchange: Fetishism in a Zero-Sum World

ISBN-13: 9780415614863 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 208 str.

Alf Hornborg

Opis

In modern society, we tend to have faith in technology. But is our concept of technology itself a cultural illusion? This book challenges the idea that humanity as a whole is united in a common development toward increasingly efficient technologies.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Zero-Sum World: How to Think about Ecologically Unequal Exchange  2. Fetishism, Dissociation, and the Cultural Analysis of Capitalism  3. Historical Political Ecology: Progress as Environmental Load Displacement  4. Toward a Truly Global Environmental History  5. The Unequal Exchange of Time and Space  6. Value, Unequal Exchange, and Uneven Development  7. Vital Signs: How Money Transforms Ecosystems  8. Possible Moneys and Impossible Machines: To Intervene in the Logic of Capitalism

O autorze

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