The psychology and politics of the collective
Subtitle: groups, crowds, and mass identifications
By: edited by Ruth Parkin-Gounelas
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Routledge studies in social and political thought -- 75
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415510264
Subjects: Individuality; Group identity; Online social networks; Social psychology; Collective behavior; Social groups
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Psychoanalysis and the group; title: Brother animal's long tail : Sigmund Freud, Victor Tausk and intellectual influence / Mandy Merck; title: Mass enjoyment and the society of the camp : the revised case of Dorian Gray / Josiane Paccaud-Huguet; title: Interview with Ernesto Laclau / Conducted by Ruth Parkin-Gounelas; title: What's in a crowd?; title: Crowds, agency and passion : reconsidering the roots of the social bond / Stephen Reicher; title: "A swinish multitude" versus "a crowd of golden daffodils" / Jina Politi; title: The masses as a "vanishing mediator" : class and politics in Duan Kovacevic's the Professional / Sean Homer; title: Global networks and mass identifications; title: Globality, the totalitarian mass, and national belonging / Effie Yiannopoulou; title: Geographies of cultural globalization and cosmopolitanisms of the future / Joseph Michael Gratale; title: "Touching everyone" : media identifications, imagined communities and new media technologies in the case of madeleine mccann / Nicola Rehling; title: Swarm intelligence : blogging and on-line subjectivities / Holger Briel; title: Epilogue: pluralities to come; title: Ruth parkin-gounelas; title: Contributors; title: References; title: Index.