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Passivity Generation : Human Rights and Everyday Morality.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (266 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781137305039
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 361.6/14
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Contents:
Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Between Knowledge and Action: Multidisciplinary Frames and the Psychosocial -- 3 The Web of Passivity: Everyday Morality and the Banality of a Clear Conscience -- 4 The Public and NGOs: Neutralisation and Denial in Response to Human Rights Appeals -- 5 Us and Them -- 6 Identities, Biographies and Invested Narratives -- 7 A Plea for Emotional Complexity: Conflicts and (Psycho)Dynamic Equilibria -- 8 Conclusions -- Appendix 1: Demographic Details -- Appendix 2: An Appeal from an Amnesty International UK (AIUK) Campaign for Afghanistan -- Appendix 3: An Appeal from an Amnesty International Campaignagainst Torture -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: Passivity Generation presents a psychosocial study of public responses, actions and inaction, in response to information on human rights violations, and employs psychosocial methodologies never previously used to investigate this topic.
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Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Between Knowledge and Action: Multidisciplinary Frames and the Psychosocial -- 3 The Web of Passivity: Everyday Morality and the Banality of a Clear Conscience -- 4 The Public and NGOs: Neutralisation and Denial in Response to Human Rights Appeals -- 5 Us and Them -- 6 Identities, Biographies and Invested Narratives -- 7 A Plea for Emotional Complexity: Conflicts and (Psycho)Dynamic Equilibria -- 8 Conclusions -- Appendix 1: Demographic Details -- Appendix 2: An Appeal from an Amnesty International UK (AIUK) Campaign for Afghanistan -- Appendix 3: An Appeal from an Amnesty International Campaignagainst Torture -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Passivity Generation presents a psychosocial study of public responses, actions and inaction, in response to information on human rights violations, and employs psychosocial methodologies never previously used to investigate this topic.

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