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Surviving Identity: Vulnerability and the Psychology of Recognition (Concepts for Critical Psychology: Disciplinary Boundaries Re-thought) - Softcover

Buch 27 von 54: Concepts for Critical Psychology

McLaughlin, Kenneth

 
9780415591218: Surviving Identity: Vulnerability and the Psychology of Recognition (Concepts for Critical Psychology: Disciplinary Boundaries Re-thought)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 041559121X ISBN 13: 9780415591218
Verlag: Routledge, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Today, political claims are increasingly made on the basis of experienced trauma and inherent vulnerability, as evidenced in the growing number of people who identify as a "survivor" of one thing or another, and also in the way in which much political discourse and social policy assumes the vulnerability of the population. This book discusses these developments in relation to the changing focus of social movements, from concerns with economic redistribution, towards campaigns for cultural recognition. As a result of this, the experience of trauma and psychological vulnerability has become a dominant paradigm within which both personal and political grievances are expressed.

Combining the psychological, social, and political aspects of the expression of individual distress and political dissent, this book provides a unique analysis of how concepts such as "vulnerability" and "trauma" have become institutionalised within politics and society. It also offers a critical appraisal of the political and personal implications of these developments, and in addition, shows how the institutionalisation of the survivor identity represents a diminished view of the human subject and our capacity to achieve progressive political and individual change.

This book will be of interest to researchers, postgraduate and undergraduate students of critical psychology, sociology, social policy, politics, social movements and mental health.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Kenneth McLaughlin is a senior lecturer in social work at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has extensive experience in social work and social care as a support worker for homeless families and as a social worker in a local authority statutory mental health team.

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Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
041559121X
ISBN 13 
9780415591218
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
168
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