We count, we matter : voice, choice and the death of distance /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2018
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| Edition: | 1 edition |
| Series: | Classical and contemporary social theory
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Table of Contents:
- Trump cards
- The irrelevance of geography and the forces of change
- Forces of reaction (identity, place and familiar face)
- Forces of reaction (immigration panic, walls and bridges)
- Forces of reaction and the flight from the impersonal
- "Weeks when decades happen": alienation old and new
- The lonely exodus of the 21st century: The social cost of disconnection
- "So near yet so far": Simmel, the stranger and the estranged
- The rise of voice and choice (thinking like a consumer)
- "Facework" and the rise of voice and choice
- The battles we fought (the respect, human rights and dignity agendas)
- From honour society to voice and choice society
- Postscript: lord of the lies: the image system and a theory of emotional cognition