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  • The Magic of Technology

    The Machine as a Transformation of Slavery

    by Alf Hornborg ...
    This book examines our understanding of technology and suggests that machines are counterfeit organisms that seem to replace human bodies but are ultimately means of displacing workloads and environmental loads beyond our horizon. It emphasises that technology is not the politically neutral revelation of natural principles that we tend to think, but largely a means of accumulating, through ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Liquidate: How Money is Dissolving the World

    by Alf Hornborg ...
    Liquidate: How Money is Dissolving the World examines the emergence of money and its social and ecological repercussions. It views money as a new phenomenon in the evolution of life that has fundamentally transformed ecosystems and human social relations.The appearance of coined money around 600 BCE coincided with the first abstract philosophies and religions. This book shows how changes in human ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Global Ecology and Unequal Exchange

    Fetishism in a Zero-Sum World

    by Alf Hornborg ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
    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. Instead it argues that modern technology implies a kind of global ‘zero-sum game’ involving uneven resource flows, which make it possible for ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • The Power of the Machine

    Global Inequalities of Economy, Technology, and Environment

    by Alf Hornborg ...
    Series series Globalization and the Environment
    Hornborg argues that we are caught in a collective illusion about the nature of modern technology that prevents us from imagining solutions to our economic and environmental crises other than technocratic fixes. He demonstrates how the power of the machine generates increasingly asymmetrical exchanges and distribution of resources and risks between distant populations and ecosystems, and thus an ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Nature, Society, and Justice in the Anthropocene

    Unraveling the Money-Energy-Technology Complex

    by Alf Hornborg ...
    Series series New Directions in Sustainability and Society
    Are money and technology the core illusions of our time? In this book, Alf Hornborg offers a fresh assessment of the inequalities and environmental degradation of the world. He shows how both mainstream and radical economists are limited by a particular worldview and, as a result, do not grasp that conventional money is at the root of many of the problems that are threatening societies, not to ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Staying Together

    NatureCulture in a Changing World

    by Kaushani Mondal, Subhankar Banerjee, Giulia Bellinetti, Dominic Boyer, Jeff Diamanti, Tamalone van den Eijnden, Alf Hornborg, Caren Irr, John Charles Ryan, Clara Soudan0 ...
    Series series Environment and Society
    Staying Together: Natureculture in a Changing World is about staying together, living together, and the dynamics and poetics of togetherness. It demonstrates, through a strong investment in nature studies, nonhuman studies, and nature culture and cohabitative readings, a commitment to interconnectedness. The contributors speak of co-habitation, a kind of co-presence that happens for the good of ... Read more

    $105.49 CAD

  • Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia

    Reconstructing Past Identities from Archaeology, Linguistics, and Ethnohistory

    Edited by Alf Hornborg, Jonathan D. Hill ...
    A transdisciplinary collaboration among ethnologists, linguists, and archaeologists, Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia traces the emergence, expansion, and decline of cultural identities in indigenous Amazonia.Hornborg and Hill argue that the tendency to link language, culture, and biology--essentialist notions of ethnic identities--is a Eurocentric bias that has characterized largely inaccurate ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • The World System and the Earth System

    Global Socioenvironmental Change and Sustainability Since the Neolithic

    Edited by Alf Hornborg, Carole L Crumley ...
    In this benchmark volume top scholars come together to present state-of-the-art research and pursue a more rigorous framework for understanding and studying the linkages between social and ecological systems. Contributors from a wide spectrum of disciplines, including archaeology, anthropology, geography, ecology, palaeo-science, geology, sociology, and history, present and assess both the ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Ecology and Power

    Struggles over Land and Material Resources in the Past, Present and Future

    Edited by Alf Hornborg, Brett Clark, Kenneth Hermele ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
    Power and social inequality shape patterns of land use and resource management. This book explores this relationship from different perspectives, illuminating the complexity of interactions between human societies and nature. Most of the contributors use the perspective of "political ecology" as a point of departure, recognizing that human relations to the environment and human social relations ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Rethinking Environmental History

    World-System History and Global Environmental Change

    by Joan Martinez-Alier, Stephen G. Bunker, William H. Fisher, Rafael A. Gassón, Stefan Giljum, N Thomas Håkansson, Josiah Heyman, J Donald Hughes, Andrew K. Jorgenson0, Robert B. Marks1, Jason W. Moore2, Roldan Muradian3, Janken Myrdal4, James Rice5, Joseph A. Tainter6, Immanuel Wallerstein7, Helga Weisz8, Mats Widgren9, Richard Wilk0, Michael Williams1 ...
    Series series Globalization and the Environment
    This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world-systems over time. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier have brought together a group of the prominent social scientists, historians, and geographical scientists to provide a historical overview of the ecological dimension of global economic processes. ... Read more

    $78.89 CAD

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  • The Consequences of Modernity

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of the institutional transformations associated with modernity. We do not as yet, he argues, live in a post-modern world. Rather the distinctive characteristics of our major social institutions in the closing period of the twentieth century express the emergence of a period of 'high modernity,' in which ... Read more

    $24.75 CAD

  • Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom

    by David Harvey ...
    Series series The Wellek Library Lectures
    Liberty and freedom are frequently invoked to justify political action. Presidents as diverse as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush have built their policies on some version of these noble values. Yet in practice, idealist agendas often turn sour as they confront specific circumstances on the ground. Demonstrated by incidents at Abu Ghraib ... Read more

    $39.19 CAD