Overview

This volume explores contemporary social conflict, focusing on a sort of violence that rarely receives coverage in the evening news. This violence occurs when powerful institutions seek to manipulate the thoughts of marginalized people—manufacturing their feelings and fostering a sense of inferiority—for the purpose of disciplinary control. Many American institutions strategically orchestrate this psychic violence through tactics of systemic humiliation. This book reveals how certain counter-measures, based in a commitment to human dignity and respect for every person’s inherent moral worth, can combat this violence. Rothbart and other contributors showcase various examples of this tug-of-war in the US, including the politics of race and class in the 2016 presidential campaign, the dehumanizing treatment of people with mental disabilities, and destructive parenting styles that foster cycles of humiliation and emotional pain. 

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Author:   Daniel Rothbart
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   2018 ed.
Weight:   0.462kg
ISBN:  

9783319706788

ISBN 10:   3319706780
Pages:   246
Publication Date:   16 April 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1. Power and Humiliation Part I: Social Conflicts and the Politics of Emotions 2. Can Systemic Humiliation be Transformed into Systemic Dignity?3. Insults as Tools of Systemic Humiliation4. Systemic Humiliation and Practical Politics: Class Thematic Reasoning and the Rise of Donald Trump Part II: Race, Violence, and the Road to Justice 5. The Civil War at 150 Years: Deep Wounds Yet to Heal6. Transforming the Systemic Humiliation of Crime and Justice: Reawakening Black Consciousness7. Truth-Telling from the Margins: Exploring Black-led responses to Police Violence and Systemic Humiliation Part III: Mental Health, Stigma. and Dignity 8. To Wander Off in Shame : Deconstructing the Shaming and Shameful Arrest Policies of Urban Police Departments in Their Treatment of Persons with Mental Disabilities9. Systemic Humiliation in Families10. Madness, Violence, and Human Dignity: Transforming Madness for Dignified Existence

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Daniel Rothbart is Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, USA. In addition to serving as Co-Director of the Program for the Prevention of Mass Violence, he chairs the Sudan Task Group, an organization that seeks to build long-term peace in Sudan, Africa.

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