Daniel Nehring, Dylan Kerrigan

Gebundenes Buch

Therapeutic Worlds

Popular Psychology and the Sociocultural Organisation of Intimate Life

Beschreibung

This book builds a fresh perspective on therapeutic narratives of intimate life. Focusing on the question of how popular psychology organises everyday experiences of intimacy, its argument is grounded in qualitative research in Trinidad in the Anglophone Caribbean.

Autor

Daniel Nehring is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Swansea University, UK. His research explores the personal consequences of globalisation and rapid social change. In particular, he is interested in the transnationalisation of therapeutic narratives of self and social relationships. He is the author of Sociology, a co-author of Transnational Popular Psychology and the Global Self-Help Industry and the co-editor of Intimacies and Cultural Change. Dylan Kerrigan is a lecturer in Anthropology and Political Sociology at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago. His research studies the way societies change over time and the cultural processes that accompany such change. He is a co-author of Transnational Popular Psychology and the Global Self-Help Industry and is currently developing a manuscript entitled Elites in the Caribbean.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781472425980
• ISBN-10: 1472425987
• Artikelnr.: 55083174