A major new intervention on the overarching challenges of modernity from one of the world's leading anthropologists

Although economic, cultural and demographic changes are part and parcel of the modern world, changes in a number of areas have accelerated in the last quarter-c

An international collection of ethnographic essays exploring the anthropology of the Anthropocene.

In a fast-changing world, where the extraction of natural resources is key to development, whilst also creating environmental and social disasters, understandin

This damning account of the forces that have hijacked progress on climate change shares a bold vision of what it will take, politically and economically, to fac