Trauma, promise, and the millennium
Subtitle: the evolution of alienation
By: Lauren Langman & Devorah Kalekin-Fishman.
Contributors: Kalekin-Fishman, Devorah.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Alienation (Social psychology)
Description: "The Evolution of Alienation: Trauma, Promise, and the Millennium presents a collection of essays that examine the prevalence of alienation in the contemporary world. The book is divided into four sections, each with a focus on how alienation is produced and, perhaps, overcome. Although the very concern with alienation shows awareness of trauma, there are, throughout the book, hints of promise - in technology, in loving and creative domesticity, in activism, and through grassroots initiatives in education."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Does alienation have a future? / Harry Dahms; title: New technologies and alienation / Douglas Kellner; title: Embodiment and communication / Matthew David; title: When alienation turns right / Chip Berlet; title: Lonely privilege in despair / Rich Gibson; title: Globalization, alienation, and identity / Lauren Langman; title: Alienation incorporated / Karen Bettez Halnon; title: The final indignity / Marvin Prosono; title: Alienation and the cosmos / Douglas Porpora; title: Alienated communities / Roger Salerno; title: Loving alienation / Martha E. Gimenez; title: 'Plain talk' producing and reproducing alienation / Devorah Kalekin-Fishman.