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title="Alf Hornborg"
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Alf Hornborg is an anthropologist and Professor of Human Ecology at Lund University. His research focuses on theorizing the cultural and political dimensions of human-environmental relations in different societies in space and time. His books include *The Power of the Machine*; *Global Ecology and Unequal Exchange*; *Global Magic* and *Nature, Society, and Justice in the Anthropocene*. He has also co-edited several collections at the intersection of anthropology, environmental history, political ecology, and ecological economics, including *Rethinking Environmental History*, *The World System and the Earth System*, and *Ecology and Power*. He holds a PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Uppsala, and has taught at Uppsala and at the University of Gothenburg. 