Passivity Generation

Human Rights and Everyday Morality
2013. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-30502-2
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 4385 g

Reihe: Studies in the Psychosocial

The book applies a unique mix of psychosocial methods to understand the complexity of emotional, cognitive and ideological responses to human rights violations and examines the banal quality of the everyday vocabularies that people use to make sense of human rights and their violations, and justify not intervening. In Passivity Generation, Irene Bruna Seu offers a vivid and compassionate account of how past experiences of trauma and suffering affect individual (un)responsiveness, and explores the psychodynamics of passivity and its underpinning defence mechanisms.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Seu, Irene Bruna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Between Knowledge and Action: Multidisciplinary Frames and the Psychosocial.- Chapter 3. The Web of Passivity: Everyday Morality and the Banality of a Clear Conscience.- Chapter 4. The Public and NGOs – Neutralisation and Denial in Response to Human Rights Appeals.- Chapter 5. Us and Them.- Chapter 6. Identities, Biographies and Invested Narratives.- Chapter 7. A Plea for Emotional Complexity: Conflicts and (Psycho)dynamic Equilibria.- Chapter 8. Conclusions.

Über Autor(innen)

Irene Bruna Seu is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, and a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Her books include Who am I? The Self and the Ego in Psychoanalysis and Feminism and Psychotherapy: Reflections on Contemporary Theory and Practice (co-editor). Her main research interests are human rights, social responsibility and helping behaviour, gender, and psychoanalysis, reflecting an intellectual interest in Western culture and values, and a political commitment to the attainment of a just society.