Systemic Humiliation in America (eBook)

Finding Dignity within Systems of Degradation

Daniel Rothbart (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: PDF

2018 | 1st ed. 2018
VIII, 246 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-70679-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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. 

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.

Inhalt

1. Power and HumiliationPart 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 TrumpPart 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 HumiliationPart 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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.3.2018
• Zusatzinfo: VIII, 246 p.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Persönlichkeitsstörungen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
• Schlagworte: conflict • criminal justice system • Degradation • disgrace • Exploitation • inferiority • marginalization • Mental Health • mortification • Power dynamics • self-esteem • Shame • social forces • Social Psychology • systemic humiliation
• ISBN-10: 3-319-70679-9 / 3319706799
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-70679-5 / 9783319706795