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Emotion and Conflict How Human Rights Can Dignify Emotion and Help Us Wage Good Conflict
Evelin Lindner
ISBN: 0-313-37237-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-37237-7
267 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 3/20/2009
List Price: $59.95 (UK Sterling Price: £41.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Contemporary Psychology
Description: A social scientist with global affiliations, among others with Columbia University in New York, University of Oslo in Norway, and La Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris, Lindner takes us across history and into nations worldwide to show how emotion spurs hierarchies of domination and therefore causes subjugation, human rights violations, abuse, conflict, and fighting. She spotlights results ranging from the binding and subsequent deforming of Chinese women's feet, to periods of slavery, bondage, feudalism, apartheid, and other events across time. Related actions from political domination internationally, to spousal or child abuse on the homefront are addressed. Lindner looks at how widely divergent societies—from the Japan of Samurais to the Meso America of Aztecs, up to the modern Iraq at war—are driven by hierarchies of emotionally-fueled control with rigid domination.

Combining classic literature with emerging research, Lindner explains how similar dynamics are at work also in contemporary societies of the West, albeit more covert. What is still lacking, almost everywhere, is access to the full range of our emotions, together with the skills to regulate these emotions so that they become a liberating force in our lives, play a constructive role for productive, fair, and so-called "good conflict," and inform our institution building. Lindner concludes her book by laying out a road map for how to reduce domination and increase human dignity, both in our lives and in the world, by using the power of emotion to implement global systemic change.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
    Preface
    Acknowledgments
    Introduction
    Part I: How Emotions Can Fuel Conflicts
    Chapter 1: What Are Emotions?
    Chapter 2: How Emotions Affect Conflicts
    Chapter 3: How Contexts Affect Emotions and Conflicts
    Part II: How Emotions Can Maximize and Minimize Conflicts
    Chapter 4: What is Humiliation?
    Chapter 5: How History and Culture Can Humiliate
    Chapter 6: How Human Rights Can Dignify
    Part III: How We Can Dignify Our Emotions and Transcend Our Conflicts
    Chapter 7: How to Regulate Our Emotions
    Chapter 8: How to Reinvent Our Contexts
    Chapter 9: How to Dignify Our Emotions and Transcend Conflicts
    Notes
    Index List
    Reference List
About the Author: Evelin Lindner is a transdisciplinary social scientist, covering the entire range from neuroscience to political science and philosophy.
LCC Class: 303.6-dc22
PDF Catalogs:
Praeger Public Library Spring 2009.pdf
Academic Library Spring 2009.pdf
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