Description
| Product ID: | 9781349454679 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Studies in the Psychosocial |
| Title: | Passivity Generation |
| Subtitle: | Human Rights and Everyday Morality |
| Authors: | Author: Irene Bruna Seu |
| Page Count: | 252 |
| Subjects: | Ethics and moral philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Political science and theory, Psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Social, group or collective psychology, The self, ego, identity, personality, Political science & theory |
| Description: | 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Publisher Name: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2013-10-30 |
