When Ernest Gellner began writing on nationalism, anthropogenic climate change had not yet been fully identified as a major global crisis and a threat to human survival. But by 1983, when his most famous and highly cited book ‘Nations and Nationalism’ appeared in print, the prospect of climate change was already being considered across a […]
Il punto di partenza di questo libro è la constatazione di un dato di fatto: il cambiamento climatico in atto è epocale, e se non venisse fermato i rischi sarebbero incommensurabili. I negoziati internazionali sul clima, però, si concludono spesso con un fallimento, o al limite con il raggiungimento di traguardi parziali, e a tante […]
Current research Three main lines of research I. The first line of research focuses on the historical processes of state-led cultural homogenisation (1789–1915). This is in line with my previous (and broader) research on the role of modernist ideologies [1] and associated practices of cultural homogenisation recurring throughout contemporary history under the umbrella of Westernising […]
El Antropoceno es una nueva era geológica provocada por la acción de los seres humanos. Elcambio climático es consecuencia de una idea de progreso abocada a la catástrofe socioambiental.El examen del neoliberalismo pretende desentrañar las causas de una degradación sistemáticade los recursos geológicos y de sus efectos asociales e insolidarios. La prevalente ideologíaconsumista ha sido […]