Overview
- Addresses timely and often overlooked topics (humiliation, shame, and dignity)
- Takes a broad and interdisciplinary approach, incorporating insights from the fields of sociology, social psychology, criminology, moral philosophy, and conflict analysis
- Provides many examples and applications of "systemic humiliation" in the United States, with international implications
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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.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Social Conflicts and the Politics of Emotions
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Race, Violence and the Road to Justice
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Mental Health, Stigma and Dignity
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Systemic Humiliation in America
Book Subtitle: Finding Dignity within Systems of Degradation
Editors: Daniel Rothbart
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70679-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-70678-8Published: 16 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09981-7Published: 02 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-70679-5Published: 30 March 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 246
Topics: Social Theory, Sociological Theory, Self and Identity, Conflict Studies, Personality and Social Psychology, Crime and Society