This timely book critically addresses the intersection between power, politics and emotions. Challenging traditional dichotomies which counterpose rationalist to non-rationalist epistemologies, it offers a sustained argument for a more complete and integrated rationalism and helps us understand emotions in contemporary social and political life.
This timely book critically addresses the intersection between power, politics and emotions. Challenging traditional dichotomies which counterpose rat...
Social development work takes place in the grey area between government and the voluntary/community sectors: in a society where social inequalities now seem entrenched, where communities are themselves often divided, and where government policy speaks about long-term development yet provides funds and evaluates the process on the basis of short-term principles. This book, written by three well-known UK educators and researchers in the social policy and development field, explores the ways in which front-line professionals, working with communities, identify and address the dilemmas inherent...
Social development work takes place in the grey area between government and the voluntary/community sectors: in a society where social inequalities no...
In this wide-ranging book, Paul Hoggett argues that human feelings and identities are constitutive of both personal and political life. Engaging with major debates in political theory, sociology, and psychoanalysis, he brings fresh insights to a range of issues: dynamics of political protest, intractable conflicts, fundamentalism and populism, the new political charismatics, the nature of forgiveness, and the relationship between anxiety and governance. The book is conceptually innovative and accessible, carefully introducing different theories of collective emotion and group identity and...
In this wide-ranging book, Paul Hoggett argues that human feelings and identities are constitutive of both personal and political life. Engaging with ...
Since the 1990s, the social sciences have begun to change. Traditional models of human rationality which opposed reason to passion are being challenged. The familiar split between individual and society, psychology and sociology, is now recognized as unhelpful to the study of both. And, as ways have been sought to overcome such splits, psychoanalysis has increasingly appeared in the breach.
Drawing also on some aspects of discourse psychology, continental philosophy and anthropological and neuro-scientific understandings of the emotions, psycho-social studies has emerged as an...
Since the 1990s, the social sciences have begun to change. Traditional models of human rationality which opposed reason to passion are being challenge...
