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Passivity Generation Irene Bruna Seu

Passivity Generation By Irene Bruna Seu

Passivity Generation by Irene Bruna Seu

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The book applies a unique mix of psychosocial methods to understand the complexity of emotional, cognitive and ideological responses to human rights violations and examines the banal quality of the everyday vocabularies that people use to make sense of human rights and their violations, and justify not intervening.

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Passivity Generation: Human Rights and Everyday Morality by Irene Bruna Seu

The book applies a unique mix of psychosocial methods to understand the complexity of emotional, cognitive and ideological responses to human rights violations and examines the banal quality of the everyday vocabularies that people use to make sense of human rights and their violations, and justify not intervening. In Passivity Generation, Irene Bruna Seu offers a vivid and compassionate account of how past experiences of trauma and suffering affect individual (un)responsiveness, and explores the psychodynamics of passivity and its underpinning defence mechanisms.

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'Seu's nuanced discussion of the widespread borrowing by participants of vocabularies or scripts from other contexts, the complex interaction of such scripts (the 'web of passivity'), and the psychological defence mechanisms used to sustain them, is both perceptive and breaks new ground.' - Journal of Human Rights Practice

About Irene Bruna Seu

Irene Bruna Seu is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, and a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Her books include Who am I? The Self and the Ego in Psychoanalysis and Feminism and Psychotherapy: Reflections on Contemporary Theory and Practice (co-editor). Her main research interests are human rights, social responsibility and helping behaviour, gender, and psychoanalysis, reflecting an intellectual interest in Western culture and values, and a political commitment to the attainment of a just society.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Between Knowledge and Action: Multidisciplinary Frames and the Psychosocial.- Chapter 3. The Web of Passivity: Everyday Morality and the Banality of a Clear Conscience.- Chapter 4. The Public and NGOs - Neutralisation and Denial in Response to Human Rights Appeals.- Chapter 5. Us and Them.- Chapter 6. Identities, Biographies and Invested Narratives.- Chapter 7. A Plea for Emotional Complexity: Conflicts and (Psycho)dynamic Equilibria.- Chapter 8. Conclusions.

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NLS9781349454679
9781349454679
1349454672
Passivity Generation: Human Rights and Everyday Morality by Irene Bruna Seu
Irene Bruna Seu
Studies in the Psychosocial
New
Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
2013-10-30
252
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