Public Emotions - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230007198 ISBN 13: 9780230007192

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

Synopsis

Emotions are central to our practices and understanding of public life. This book examines the political, social and personal consequences of public emotions in relation to conflict, ritual, social classification, collective life, identity, memory and power. A multidisciplinary collaboration between psychotherapists, anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, and cultural theorists, Public Emotions showcases cutting edge thought on the emotional character of public life in many continents and contexts.

About this title

About the Author:

PERRI 6 is Professor of Social Policy at Nottingham Trent University, UK. He has published over twenty books. Much of his work has used the neo-Durkheimian institutional approach. His most recent publications include Beyond 'delivery': Policy Implementation as Sense-Making and Settlement, Managing Networks of Twenty First Century Organisations, E-governance: Styles of Political Judgment in the Information Age Polity, and Towards Holistic Governance.

SUSANNAH RADSTONE is Reader in Cultural Studies at the University of East London, UK, and author of Memory, History, Nation and On Memory and Confession: The Sexual Politics of Time.

CORINNE SQUIRE is Co-Director of the Centre for Narrative Research and Reader in Social Sciences, University of East London, UK, editor of Culture in Psychology and author of HIV in South Africa: Talking about the big thing.

AMAL TREACHER is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Social Work at University of Nottingham, UK, and editor of Uses of Narrative and The Dynamics of Adoption.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0230007198
• ISBN 13: 9780230007192
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 265
• Editor: Perri P., Radstone S., Squire C., Treacher A., Loparo Kenneth A.