Overcoming Social Division

Author : Anatol Valerian Itten
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351255981

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Overcoming Social Division by Anatol Valerian Itten Pdf

Locked in our worldview communities and polarised through increasingly radical campaigning, we are anxious of today's great uncertainty and our politicians have little incentive to reach across party lines. The problem of social division is real. The Brexit vote led to the highest spike in hate crimes in Britain ever recorded and heated situations like the far-right rally in Charlottesville, USA are increasingly boiling over. Overcoming Social Division is not another book about dying democracies, because horror scenarios don't make you act. Instead, it is an optimistic response on what can be done, and about how we can coexist in fragmented and polarised societies. Anatol Valerian Itten explains how public conflict resolution, civic fusion and mediative decision making help us re-learn the ability to find common ground on controversial issues with our fellow citizens, whom we tend to assume believe more extreme things than they really do. This book takes the reader through empirical key factors, obstacles and blind spots and provides helpful guidelines for everyone interested in mitigating social division and resolving conflicts. The author's insights are based on his experience in conflict management, a study of dozens of public conflict resolution cases and surprising stories of over twenty interviewed mediators. Overcoming social division can be a strenuous task. But talking to our enemies is necessary if we don't want to end up in dysfunctional democracies, and it can be a more rewarding experience than we might think. This is a fascinating read for students and academics interested in conflict resolution and public participation from psychology, social sciences, law, and related disciplines. It is also a unique resource for professionals including officials, mediators, lawyers and other practitioners dealing with conflict and public participation.

Author : Yoshikazu Shiobara,Kohei Kawabata,Joel Matthews
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351387873

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Cultural and Social Division in Contemporary Japan by Yoshikazu Shiobara,Kohei Kawabata,Joel Matthews Pdf

The recent manifestation of exclusionism in Japan has emerged at a time of intensified neoliberal economic policies, increased cross-border migration brought on by globalization, the elevated threat of global terrorism, heightened tensions between East Asian states over historical and territorial conflicts, and a backlash by Japanese conservatives over perceived historical apologism. The social and political environment for minorities in Japan has shifted drastically since the 1990s, yet many studies of Japan still tend to view Japan through the dominant discourses of “ethnic homogeneity (tanitsu minzoku shakai)” and “middle-class society (so ̄churyu ̄-shakai)” which positions the exclusion of minorities as an exceptional phenomenon. While exclusionism has been recognized as a serious threat to minority groups, it has not often been considered a representative issue for the whole of Japanese society. This tendency will persist until the discourses of tanitsu minzoku shakai and so ̄churyu ̄-shakai are systematically debunked and Japan is widely recognized as both multiethnic and socio-economically stratified. Today, as with most advanced capitalist countries, serious social divides occasioned by the impacts of globalization and neoliberalism have destabilized Japanese society. This book explores not only how Japanese society is diversified and unequal, but also how diversity and inequality have caused people to divide into separate realities from which conflict and violence have emerged. It empirically examines the current situation while considering the historical development of exclusionism from the interdisciplinary viewpoints of history, policy studies, cultural studies, sociology and cultural anthropology. In addition to analyzing the realities of division and exclusionism, the authors propose theoretical alternatives to overcome such cultural and social divides.

Author : Sean Sayers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230309142

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Marx and Alienation by Sean Sayers Pdf

The concepts of alienation and its overcoming are central to Marx's thought. They underpin his critique of capitalism and his vision of future society. Marx's ideas are explained in rigorous and clear terms. They are situated in the context of the Hegelian ideas that inspired them and put into dialogue with contemporary debates.

Author : Isaac Sserwanga
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031578601

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Wisdom, Well-Being, Win-Win by Isaac Sserwanga Pdf

Author : Derek Hastings
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199843459

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Catholicism and the Roots of Nazism by Derek Hastings Pdf

"Derek Hastings illuminates an important and largely overlooked aspect of Nazi history, revealing National Socialism's close, early ties with Catholicism in the years immediately after World War I, when the movement first emerged."--Jacket.

Author : Theodore D. Kemper
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0813515513

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Social Structure and Testosterone by Theodore D. Kemper Pdf

Explorations in the Socio-Bio-Social Chain

Author : Harry D. Harootunian
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400823864

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Overcome by Modernity by Harry D. Harootunian Pdf

In the decades between the two World Wars, Japan made a dramatic entry into the modern age, expanding its capital industries and urbanizing so quickly as to rival many long-standing Western industrial societies. How the Japanese made sense of the sudden transformation and the subsequent rise of mass culture is the focus of Harry Harootunian's fascinating inquiry into the problems of modernity. Here he examines the work of a generation of Japanese intellectuals who, like their European counterparts, saw modernity as a spectacle of ceaseless change that uprooted the dominant historical culture from its fixed values and substituted a culture based on fantasy and desire. Harootunian not only explains why the Japanese valued philosophical understandings of these events, often over sociological or empirical explanations, but also locates Japan's experience of modernity within a larger global process marked by both modernism and fascism. What caught the attention of Japanese thinkers was how the production of desire actually threatened historical culture. These intellectuals sought to "overcome" the materialism and consumerism associated with the West, particularly the United States. They proposed versions of a modernity rooted in cultural authenticity and aimed at infusing meaning into everyday life, whether through art, memory, or community. Harootunian traces these ideas in the works of Yanagita Kunio, Tosaka Jun, Gonda Yasunosuke, and Kon Wajiro, among others, and relates their arguments to those of such European writers as George Simmel, Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Georges Bataille. Harootunian shows that Japanese and European intellectuals shared many of the same concerns, and also stresses that neither Japan's involvement with fascism nor its late entry into the capitalist, industrial scene should cause historians to view its experience of modernity as an oddity. The author argues that strains of fascism ran throughout most every country in Europe and in many ways resulted from modernizing trends in general. This book, written by a leading scholar of modern Japan, amounts to a major reinterpretation of the nature of Japan's modernity.

Author : István Mészáros
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781583672051

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Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness, Volume 1 by István Mészáros Pdf

This new work (the first in a two-volume series) by the leading Marxian philosopher of our day is a milestone in human self-understanding. It focuses on the location where action emerges from freedom and necessity, thefoundation of all social science. Today, as never before, the investigation of the close relationship between social structure—defined by Marx as "arising from the life-process of definite individuals"—and the various forms of consciousness is particularly important. We can only perceive what is possible by first identifying the historical process that constrains consciousness itself and therefore social action. The relationship between social structure and forms of consciousness discussed in this volume is multifaceted and profoundly dialectical. It requires the presentation of a great wealth of historical material and the assessment of the relevant philosophical literature, from Descartes through Hegel and the Liberal tradition to the present, together with their connections with political economy and political theory. István Mészáros moves beyond both abstract solutions to the surveyed methodological questions and one-sided structuralist evaluation of the important substantive issues, bringing the process of our understanding of social structure and consciousness to a level not previously attained. Above all, in the spirit of the Marxian approach, even the most complicated problems are always analyzed in relation to the major practical concerns of our time. The primary aim of this work is to outline the dialectical intelligibility of historical development toward a viable societal reproductive order. Social Structures and Forms of Consciousness is of the highest importance as both a political and philosophical work, illuminating the place from where we must act, today.

Author : Moritz Ege,Johannes Springer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000877380

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The Cultural Politics of Anti-Elitism by Moritz Ege,Johannes Springer Pdf

This book examines the highly ambivalent implications and effects of anti-elitism. It draws on this theme as a cross-cutting entry point to provide transdisciplinary analysis of current conjunctures and their contradictions, drawing on examples from popular culture and media, politics, fashion, labour and spatial arrangements. Using the toolboxes of media and discourse analysis, hegemony theory, ethnography, critical social psychology and cultural studies more broadly, the book surveys and theorizes the forms, the implications and the ambiguities and limits of anti-elitist formations in different parts of the world. Anti-elitist sentiments colour the contemporary political conjuncture as much as they shape pop cultural and media trends. Populists, right-wing authoritarian ones and others, direct their anger at cultural, political and, sometimes, economic elites while supporting other elites and creating new ones. At the same time, "elitist" knowledge and expertise, decision-making power and taste regimes are being questioned in societal transformations that are discussed much more positively under headlines such as participation or democratization. The book brings together a group of international, interdisciplinary case studies in order to better understand the ways in which the battle cry "against the elites" shapes current conjunctures and possible future politics, focusing on themes such as nationalist political discourse in India, Austria, the UK and Hungary, labour struggles and anti-oligarchy rhetoric in Russia, tax-avoiding elites and fiscal imaginaries, working-class agency, Melania Trump as a celebrity narrative in Slovenia, aesthetic codes of the Alt-Right, football hooliganism in Germany, "hipster hate" in German political discourse or the politics of expertise and anti-elite iconography in high fashion internationally. The book is intended for undergraduates, postgraduates and postdoctoral researchers. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

Author : Alan Carling
Publisher : Verso
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0860915069

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Social Division by Alan Carling Pdf

Social divisions are systematic social inequalities which are frequently regarded as unjust, and are fateful in the lives of individuals.

Author : Felix Petersen,Zeynep Yanasmayan,Zeynep Yanaşmayan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108497626

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The Failure of Popular Constitution Making in Turkey by Felix Petersen,Zeynep Yanasmayan,Zeynep Yanaşmayan Pdf

Offers an in-depth case study of the failure of popular constitution making in Turkey from 2011 to 2013.

Author : Lawrence Wilde
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780748674541

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Global Solidarity by Lawrence Wilde Pdf

Explores the potential of globalisation to provide the conditions for a harmonious global community. Lawrence Wilde introduces the concept of global solidarity and explains how it relates to nationalism, gender, religion and culture. Looking to the future, he explores the politics of global solidarity and the conditions required for its development.Solidarity has been a mobilising word since entering the political vocabulary in the mid-19th century, and conjures images of united action in pursuit of social justice. But is solidarity among strangers is a meaningful aspiration in our globalising age?

Author : Paul R. Williams,Milena Sterio
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781788971645

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Research Handbook on Post-Conflict State Building by Paul R. Williams,Milena Sterio Pdf

As a conflict ends and the parties begin working towards a durable peace, practitioners and peacebuilders are faced with the thrilling possibilities and challenges of building new or reformed political, security, judicial, social, and economic structures. This Handbook analyzes these elements of post-conflict state building through the lens of international law, which provides a framework through which the authors contextualize and examine the many facets of state building in relation to the legal norms, processes, and procedures that guide such efforts across the globe. The volume aims to provide not only an introduction to and explanation of prominent topics in state building, but also a perceptive analysis that augments ongoing conversations among researchers, lawyers, and advocates engaged in the field.

Author : Rebecca E. Karl
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0822328674

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Staging the World by Rebecca E. Karl Pdf

DIVAn historical analysis of how the Chinese constructed their understandings of their place in the world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries./div

Author : Angelos Chryssogelos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000287448

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Party Systems and Foreign Policy Change in Liberal Democracies by Angelos Chryssogelos Pdf

How do political parties affect foreign policy? This book answers this question by exploring the role of party politics as source of foreign policy change in liberal democracies. The book shifts the focus from individual political parties to party systems as the context in which parties’ ideologies receive precise content and their preferences are formed. The central claim is that foreign policy change arises from within transformed discursive contexts of party competition, when a new language of politics that constitutes anew parties’ self-understanding of what they stand for and compete over emerges in a party system. By comparing cases of contested foreign policy change, the book shows how such transformations in party competition determine whether and when international pressures on a state will translate into decisions to institute foreign policy change and what degree of change will be ultimately implemented. With a novel framework which bridges concepts of international relations and comparative politics, the book will be of interest to researchers and students in the areas of international relations theory, foreign policy analysis and comparative politics, and generally to anyone wanting to understand how and when parties, elections and voters contribute to international change.