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"Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability--at the level of literature, history, and politics--to grasp the scale and violence of climate change. The extreme nature of today's climate events, Ghosh asserts, makes them peculiarly resistant to contemporary modes of thinking and imagining. This is particularly true of serious literary fiction: hundred-year storms and freakish tornadoes simply feel too improbable for the novel; they are automatically consigned to other genres. In the writing of history, too, the climate crisis has sometimes led to gross simplifications; Ghosh shows that the history of the carbon economy is a tangled global story with many contradictory and counterintuitive elements. Ghosh ends by suggesting that politics, much like literature, has become a matter of personal moral reckoning rather than an arena of collective action. But to limit fiction and politics to individual moral adventure comes at a great cost. The climate crisis asks us to imagine other forms of human existence--a task to which fiction, Ghosh argues, is the best suited of all cultural forms. His book serves as a great writer's summons to confront the most urgent task of our time."--Jacket.

Climatic changes in literature. --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- #SBIB:35H434 --- #SBIB:39A4 --- Beleidssectoren: milieubeleid en ruimtelijke ordening --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Climatic changes in literature

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Examining the history of warfare and political development through a technological lens, Macola relates the study of military technology to the history of gender.

Firearms --- #SBIB:39A73 --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:327.5H22 --- Guns --- Small arms --- Weapons --- Shooting --- History. --- Social aspects --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Ontwapeningsproblemen - bewapening --- History --- Social aspects&delete& --- Central Africa. --- Africa, Equatorial --- Central Africa --- Equatorial Africa --- Africa, Central --- Equatorial

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Transportation, Automotive --- Automobiles --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Autos (Automobiles) --- Cars (Automobiles) --- Gasoline automobiles --- Motorcars (Automobiles) --- Motor vehicles --- Automotive transportation --- Highway transportation --- Motor carriers --- Motor transportation --- Road transportation --- History. --- Social aspects --- Government policy --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Etnografie: Afrika --- History

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The most extensive urban demographic transitions ahead will take place in Africa and Asia. These transitions occur in regions where the majority of inhabitants remain trapped in vulnerable employment, which limits the capacities to plan, save, invest, and afford critical amenities, as well as limits the horizons of what is considered possible. Yet, the aspirations for mobility, security, consumption, and attainment are enormous. How can different rationalities and practices of everyday sociality be more effectively connected to the prevailing concepts informing formal political and policymaking projects? How can incommensurable facets of urban life be folded into each other as a matter of an enlarged political practice? There is no pre-existent map that tells us how to link these equally important dimensions of urban life. Thus, any effort to consider the relationship between them is by necessity an experiment.

Cities and towns --- Urbanization --- Africa --- Asia --- Asian and Pacific Council countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Social conditions --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:39A77 --- #SBIB:39A75 --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Etnografie: Noord-Afrika en het Midden-Oosten --- Etnografie: Azië

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Human ecology. --- Applied anthropology. --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:316.334.5U34 --- Sustainable living. --- Alternative lifestyles --- Environmentalism --- Green movement --- Ecological living --- Green living --- Living, Sustainable --- Ecology --- Ecological engineering --- Human beings --- Human geography --- Nature --- Environment, Human --- Human environment --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Sociologie van stad en platteland: milieuproblematiek --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on --- Social aspects --- Human ecology --- Applied anthropology --- Sustainable living