Brain culture

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4473-1405-9
Verlag: Policy Press

Buch, Englisch, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 348 g

This unique book offers a timely analysis of the impact of rapidly advancing knowledge about the brain, mind and behaviour on contemporary public policy and practice. Examining developments in behaviour change policies, neuroscience, architecture and urban design, education, and workplace training programmes the book analyses the global spread of research agendas, policy experiments and everyday practice informed by ‘brain culture’. It offers an alternative, geographically informed set of explanations for what matters in explaining how people behave and how citizens’ behaviour should be governed. It will be of interest to students and academics across the social and behavioural sciences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pykett, Jessica

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: governing through brain culture;

Brain culture in context;

Designing cerebral cities;

Teaching the learning brain;

Managing workplace emotions;

Conclusion. What is at stake in the brain world?.

Über Autor(innen)

Pykett, Jessica
Jessica Pykett is a social and political geographer at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her research to date has focussed on the geographies of citizenship, education and behavioural forms of governance. Her previous books include The Pedagogical State and Changing Behaviours (with Rhys Jones and Mark Whitehead). She teaches on the spatial politics of welfare, work and wealth.