Passivity Generation: Human Rights and Everyday Morality

✍ Scribed by Irene Bruna Seu (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 266
Series: Studies in the Psychosocial
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Between Knowledge and Action: Multidisciplinary Frames and the Psychosocial....Pages 9-35
The Web of Passivity: Everyday Morality and the Banality of a Clear Conscience....Pages 36-67
The Public and NGOs: Neutralisation and Denial in Response to Human Rights Appeals....Pages 68-97
Us and Them....Pages 98-129
Identities, Biographies and Invested Narratives....Pages 130-156
A Plea for Emotional Complexity: Conflicts and (Psycho)Dynamic Equilibria....Pages 157-190
Conclusions....Pages 191-215
Back Matter....Pages 216-252

✦ Subjects

Psychoanalysis; Psychotherapy and Counseling; Personality and Social Psychology; Community and Environmental Psychology; Political Science; Ethics

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