V. Walkerdine, L. Jimenez

Gender, Work and Community After De-Industrialisation

A Psychosocial Approach to Affect

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the processes of community, regeneration, relationality and affect in a small Welsh town after the closure of its iron and steel works - an industry at the heart of this community.

Produktdetails

• Identity Studies in the Social Sciences
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-24706-2
• 2012
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 378g
• ISBN-13: 9780230247062
• ISBN-10: 0230247067
• Artikelnr.: 34439795

Autorenporträt

VALERIE WALKERDINE Distinguished Research Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK. She is editor of the journal Subjectivity. Her previous books include Growing up Girl: Psychosocial Explorations of Gender and Class and Children, Gender, Videogames: Towards a Relational Approach to Multimedia. She is also a practising mixed media and installation artist. LUIS JIMENEZ Senior Lecturer at the School of Psychology, University of East London, UK. He is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, physician and sociologist. He has researched and published socio-psychoanalytic aspects on male emotional communication as well as psychosocial research on changes on gendered aspects of male identities within a context of de-industrialisation in the UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication Acknowledgements Introduction: Hiraeth Two Hundred Years of Iron and Steel Advanced Liberalism Communal Beingness and Affect Deindustrialisation, Suffering, Crisis and Catastrophe Producing Pride in Masculinity: The Hard Steelworker The Next Generation Women, Gays and Mammy's Boys What About the Women? To the Future? Bibliography Index

Rezensionen

'This illuminating book leads its rapt readers to discover a deeply buried and greatly important truth for people in a small town in south Wales. For 200 years the town absorbed the insecurities of the market for iron and steel, until one day, the work of handling them left and with it the male honor based on such work and an identity based on that honor. Loss, collective grief, the unconscious passing down of grief from man to woman and from father to son- this is the story of life in one small town, and in the modern world at large. A brilliant book.' - Arlie Hochschild, Full Professor of the Graduate School, University of California, Berkeley, USA and author of The Managed Heart and The Outsourced Self.

"Gender, Work and Community After De-Industrialisation is a moving discernment of the social suffering of the inhabitants of Steeltown in the wake of enduring community trauma and an original ethnographic study. ... It should be of particular interest to those concerned with the many matters the research touches upon ... as well as those involved with the many people whose lives have been impacted by industrial decline." (Philip John Archard, Journal of Social Work Practice, 2015)