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What Holds Us Together: Popular Culture and Social Cohesion

by Richards Barry
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780367102647
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
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  • Pages: 132
  • Original Price: GBP 145.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 363 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis

Faced by the increasing divisiveness and volatility of electoral politics, and the rise of illiberal fundamentalisms, the social sciences may seem to lack the imagination necessary to make sense of the world. In this unusual book of political psychology, based on the idea that we hold ourselves together through a combination of restraint and release, the author draws on psychoanalysis and its creative interpretations of everyday experience to consider the current malaise of politics in relation to the huge vitality of popular culture. In a wide-ranging analysis, that links topics as diverse as our experience of public utilities, the rise of counselling, and the weakened impact of sexual scandal, he concludes with the proposal that a reconstruction of nationalism could make an important contribution to the renewal of democratic politics.

Richards, Barry: - Barry Richards is Professor of Political Psychology in the Faculty of Media and Communication at Bournemouth University. Prior to moving to Bournemouth in 2001, he was Professor and Head of the Department of Human Relations at the University of East London. His books include Images of Freud: Cultural Responses to Psychoanalysis, Disciplines of Delight: The Psychoanalysis of Popular Culture, The Dynamics of Advertising (with I. MacRury & J. Botterill) and Emotional Governance: Politics, Media and Terror. He was a founding co-editor of the Sage journal Media, War and Conflict, and of the independent journal Free Associations, and was first convenor of the "Psychoanalysis and the Public Sphere" conferences, held annually in London from 1987 to 2000. He has written widely on popular culture and politics; his major interests are in the psychology of politics, particularly in the emotional dynamics of conflict and extremism, and in psycho-social dimensions of cultural change.

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