Psychosocial Imaginaries

Perspectives on Temporality, Subjectivities and Activism
Herausgegeben:Frosh, Stephen

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Produktbeschreibung

Psychosocial studies challenges the traditions of psychology and sociology from a genuinely transdisciplinary perspective. The book reflects this agenda in its varied theoretical and empirical strands, producing a newly contextualised and restless body of understanding of how 'psychic' and 'social' processes intertwine.

Produktdetails

• Studies in the Psychosocial
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-38817-9
• 1st ed. 2015
• Seitenzahl: 223
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 141mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9781137388179
• ISBN-10: 113738817X
• Artikelnr.: 42799035

Autorenporträt

Judith Butler, University of California Berkeley, USA Lisa Baraitser, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Stephen Frosh, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Derek Hook, Dusquesne University, USA Elizabeth Chapman Hoult, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Amber Jacobs, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Margarita Palacios, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Sasha Roseneil, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Lynne Segal, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Bruna Seu, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword; Judith Butler
1. Touching Time: Maintenance, Endurance, Care; Lisa Baraitser
2. Indefinite Delay: On (Post) Apartheid Temporality; Derek Hook
3. From Event to Criticality? A Study of Heidegger, Lacan, Benjamin and Derrida; Margarita Palacios
4. The Circus of (Male) Ageing: Philp Roth and the Perils of Masculinity; Lynne Segal
5. Re-Thinking Vulnerability and Resilience Through a Psychosocial Reading of Shakespeare; Elizabeth Chapman Hoult
6. The Demise of the Analogue Mind: Digital Primal Fantasies and the Technologies of Loss-less-ness; Amber Jacobs
7. The Vicissitudes of Postcolonial Citizenship and Belonging in Late Liberalism; Sasha Roseneil
8. Knowing and Not Knowing: Implicatory Denial and Defence Mechanisms in Response to Human Rights Abuses; Bruna Seu
9. What We are Left With: Psychoanalytic Endings; Stephen Frosh
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Rezensionen

"This edited book is a wonderful contemporary introduction to this body of psychosocial work, enabling readers to get a flavour of its subject matters, its methods and its theoretical points of departure. This book is likely to appeal to theorists and researchers, both student and well-established, from a wide range of disciplines within the humanities. ... In conclusion, this edited book offers a rich display of the best of contemporary psychosocial thinking." (Lisa Saville Young, PINS Psychologyin Society, Issue 52, 2016)