Passivity Generation: Human Rights and Everyday Morality

Seu, Irene Bruna

The book applies a unique mix of psychosocial methods to understand the complexity of emotional, cognitive and ideological responses to human rights violations and examines the banal quality of the everyday vocabularies that people use to make sense of human rights and their violations, and justify not intervening. In Passivity Generation, Irene Bruna Seu offers a vivid and compassionate account of how past experiences of trauma and suffering affect individual (un)responsiveness, and explores the psychodynamics of passivity and its underpinning defence mechanisms.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2013-10-30

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137305022

DOI: 10.1057/9781137305039

Dimensions: 216.0cm x140.0cm

Pages: 252.0