This book explores the conquest, predation and management of human
bodies and emotions by the growing capitalist digital community. It
seeks to understand the debate between various forms of the
individual, subject, actor, and agent to emerge a social theory vision
for the 21st century. The book moves beyond the colonization of the
physical world to examine the process of colonization of humans. It
focuses on the communication humans have with the world to understand
how this impacts their sensibilities. This communication is influenced
by technological innovations that enable a process of systematic
colonization of human beings as bodies/emotions. This book explores a
social theory which will allow us to understand this redefinition of
the individual. This enables us to uncover connections between the
colonization of the ‘inner planet’ that is the human society, and
the dialectic of the person and the politics of their sensibilities.
This is explored through the tensions that arise between the forms a
person assumes in unequal and diverse cultural contexts and the
emotions behind those cultural differences. The book will appeal to
academics and postgraduate students of sociology, philosophy and
anthropology, as well as psychologists, organizational specialists,
linguists, ethnographers, historians, political scientists,
administrators and professionals affiliated with NGOs.
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21st Century Social Theory from the Politics of Sensibilities
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781000414394
Publisert
2021
Utgave
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Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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