Neoliberalism, Economic Radicalism, and the Normalization of Violence
This compelling volume analyzes the wide-scale societal impact of neoliberal economic policy on contemporary life and behavior. Synthesizing perspectives from politics and economics with insights from psychology and linguistics, it argues that market-driven public institutions promote antisocial thinking, discourage critical reflection, and inure individuals to inequity and cruelty. Chapters cite the ubiquity of violence in modern society, from the marketing of the military to impersonal mass upheavals in the job market, as devaluing human worth and thus self-worth. But the editors also assert that these currents are not terminal, and the boo…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Murphy, John W. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-319-25169-1
- EAN: 9783319251691
- Produktnummer: 19253023
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 168 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 4'974 KB
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2016
- Abbildungen: Bibliographie
Über den Autor
John W. Murphy has a PhD in sociology from Ohio State University. For the past thirty years he has been writing on and working in community-based projects in both the United States and several countries in Latin America. Most recently he worked on a project in Ecuador that was devoted to building a health center in a poor community. Currently he is a professor of sociology at the University of Miami. He is co-author of Symbolization of Globalization, Development, and Aging (2013) and Community-BAsed Interventions (2014), both with Springer.
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