Degradation Rituals [electronic resource] : Our Sadomasochistic Society /
Romanienko, L.author.
A candid exploration of sadomasochistic practices driving contemporary culture, covering the demoralizing socioeconomic and political conditions that give rise to agonizing rituals of cruelty demonstrated at systemic, transnational, religious, familial, and even sexual spheres of human relations.
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Degradation Rituals: Our Sadomasochistic Society; Contents; Foreword; PART I: Regulating Conventional Culture; CHAPTER 1: Deconstructing Degradation Rituals; Introduction; The Rise of Coercive Diplomacy; Coercion and the Decline of Civility; Diplomacy and Distorted Communication; Discursive Democracy; Deliberative Democracy and Degradation; Insurgency as a Reclamation of Deliberative Democracy; The Revolution Will Not Be Uploaded; Dissenters Are All Violent; Reclaiming the Colonized Mind; Normalizing Cruel Communications; Defining the Degradation Ritual; International Degradation Rituals
Degradation CasesCHAPTER 2: Degradation Rituals and Incarceration; Background; Legitimating Traditional Authority; Institutional Degradation through Race and Gender; Elimination of Women; Consequences of the Elimination of Women; Sexualized Prison Culture; Women and Sexual Misconduct; Gender, Technology, and Revolt; Reforms, Abolition, or Export for Profit?; Reversing the Dystopian Vision of the Future; CHAPTER 3: Degradation Rituals in Biotechnology; Introduction; Relevant Literature; Elective Technological Affinities; Identity Construction and Elite Adaptation
The Case of Polish Mobile Medicine EntrepreneursDegradation Rituals among Biotech Saboteurs; Dominant Group Traits and Development; Discussion; CHAPTER 4: Degradation Rituals in American Higher Education; Introduction; Reproduction of the Existing Class Structure; Institutional Degradation Rituals; Higher Education Systems and Civil Society; Education as a Generator of Inequality; Mentoring and the Significance of Affiliation; Mentoring as a Contractual Transaction; Relevant Legal Cases; Discussion; Conclusions; PART II: Regulating Alternative Culture
CHAPTER 5: Degradation Rituals in Off-Road Motorcycling in AfricaIntroduction; Methodological Approach; Film Portrayals; Deconstructing the Dakar Rally; Emancipating the Colonized Mind; (Re)colonizing the Emancipated Mind; Discussion; CHAPTER 6: Degradation Rituals in Mobile Squatting; Introduction; Background; Escaping the Capitalist Colonization of the City; Challenges to Utopian Living; Barriers to Utopian Inhabitation; The Future of the City; CHAPTER 7: Degradation Rituals in the Bedroom; Introduction; Embodied Power through State and Nonstate Relations; Sadomasochism as Play and Work
Sadomasochism and TrustSM as an Emancipatory Reversal Ritual; Perpetuation of or Transcendence from Oppression?; Fluidity and Freedom among SM Participants; Sadistic Society and the Sadistic Bedroom; Discussion; CHAPTER 8: Degradation Rituals in Sustainability; Introduction; State Adaptive Management; Green Civil Society; Weaknesses of Green Civil Society; Factors Contributing to Ecological Militancy; The Founder of Managed Militancy; The Rise of Militant Measures; The Rise of Nonviolent Militancy; Radicalization of Autonomous Adaptation; Resisting Militant Ecocide: Rospuda Valley; Background
Militant Resistance of the Via Baltica Highway Project
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A candid exploration of sadomasochistic practices driving contemporary culture, covering the demoralizing socioeconomic and political conditions that give rise to agonizing rituals of cruelty demonstrated at systemic, transnational, religious, familial, and even sexual spheres of human relations.
Social sciences—Philosophy.
Religion and sociology.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Criminology.
Anthropology.
Sociology.
Social Theory.
Sociology of Religion.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.
Anthropology.
Sociology, general.