Humiliation: Claims and Context - Couverture rigide

Guru, Gopal

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0198060300 ISBN 13 : 9780198060307

Editeur : OUP India, 2009

Synopsis

This volume theorizes the concept of humiliation, which is endemic to social life and survives in different forms, depending upon the nature of the social context. It is perpetuated through asymmetries of intersecting sets of attitudes-arrogance and obeisance, self-respect and servility, and reverence and repulsion. With definition of humiliation as one of their central concerns, the essays in the volume unfold its meaning by juxtaposing it with concepts like shame, disgust, discrimination, degradation, and segregation. The complex and multiple meanings and practices of humiliation are presented within an interdisciplinary framework, incorporating constructs from history, sociology, psychology, and political theory, and could thus help expand the meaning of other concepts like justice, equality, and nationalism. The essays also suggest that it is the socio-cultural context that decides the nature, level, and intensity of humiliation. This cultural specificity provides a vantage point that could be used to develop a comparative perspective on humiliation.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gopal Guru is Professor, Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: OUP India
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0198060300
• ISBN 13: 9780198060307
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 252
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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