We Count, We Matter: Voice, Choice and the Death of Distance

ISBN-13: 9781138306219 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 188 str.

Christopher Steed

Opis

This book examines the contemporary reaction against the establishment or ‘the system’ in terms of a new divide between those who wish to see an interconnected world, and those who seek distance through protectionism and opposition to immigration. An analysis that draws on the notion of ‘face’ to explore reactions to processes such as automation and globalisation, the author considers people’s new conception of themselves as networked individuals, able to respond to a sense of alienation and air their grievances on social media, and discusses our move towards a type of society characterised not by honour and dishonour, or right and wrong, but by voice and choice.

Spis treści

Setting the Scene: Waking the Sleeping Dog - A First Draft of History 1. Trump Cards 2. The Irrelevance of Geography and The Forces of Change 3. Forces of Reaction (Identity, Place and Familiar Face) 4. Forces of Reaction (Immigration Panic, Walls and Bridges) 5. Forces of Reaction and The Flight from The Impersonal 6. ‘Weeks When Decades Happen’: Alienation Old and New 7. Lonely Exodus of the 21st Century: The Social Cost of Disconnection 8. ‘So Near Yet So Far’: Simmel, The Stranger and The Estranged 9. The Rise of Voice and Choice (Thinking Like a Consumer) 10. ‘Facework’ nd the Rise of Voice and Choice 11. The Battles We Fought (The Respect, Human Rights and Dignity Agendas) 12. From Honour Society to Voice and Choice Society, Postscript: Lord of The Lies: The Image System and A Theory of Emotional Cognition, Index

O autorze

Christopher Steed is Visiting Fellow in the School of Management at the University of Southampton, UK, and the author of Smart Leadership – Wise Leadership: Environments of Value in an Emerging Future.