List of Figures and Tables Preface 1. Introduction: The Art of Belonging in an Overheated World - Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Elisabeth Schober 2. Down With Identity! Long Live Humanity! - Jeremy MacClancy 3. Frozen Cosmopolitanism: Coping with Radical Deceleration in Cape Verdean Contexts of Forced Return Migration - Heike Drotbohm 4. 'We Are All Strangers Here': Transforming Land and Making Identity in a Desert Boomtown - Astrid B. Stensrud 5. Identifying with Accelerated Change: Modernity Embodied in Gladstone, Queensland - Thomas Hylland Eriksen 6. Guarding the Frontier: On Nationalism and Nostalgia in an Israeli Border Town - Cathrine Thorleifsson 7.

Cultural Wounding and Healing: Change as Ongoing Cultural Production in a Remote Indigenous Australian Community - Amanda Kearney 8. Indigenous Endurance amidst Accelerated Change? The U.S. Military, South Korean Investors and the Aeta of Subic Bay, the Philippines - Elisabeth Schober 9. The Politics of Localness: Claiming Gains in Rural Sierra Leone - Robert J. Pijpers 10. Too Many Khans?: Old and New Elites in Afghanistan - Torunn Wimpelmann 11. Do Homosexuals Wear Moustaches? Controversies around the First Montenegrin Pride Parade - Branko Banovic 12.

'We're Far Too Far Down This Road Now to Worry about Morals': The Destabilising of Football Fans' Identities in an Overheated World - Keir Martin 13. Frozen Moments: Visualising the Polity in Times of Overheating - Iver B. Neumann 14. Eurovision Identities: Or, How Many Collective Identities Can One Anthropologist Possess? - Chris Hann Notes on Contributors Index.