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Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General
Mass Insanity explores the subjects of insane communities, the
clash of identities, and how societies indoctrinate their members
and shape their way of thinking. It uses theories of social,
clinical and forensic psychology to analyse Islam. It explores
Islamic invasions, piracy, slavery, terrorism, female genital
mutilation, rape, suppression of human rights and critical
thinking. It also discusses the decay of Western civilisation and
the arising psychological difficulties. Why do millions of
supposedly sane people endorse the assassination of writers,
cartoonist, and journalists, the suppression of women, the killing
of children, the destruction of art, culture and heritage? Can a
society that includes millions of people lose its mind and how? In
contrast, why would any country allow a group of people to
immigrate, legally and illegally, to its territories to kill its
children, rape its daughters, take its wealth, and destroy its
identity? Why would a community lose the will to defend itself
against an enemy seeking its demise? How could a society stand idly
by and watch its own offspring being slain and raped? Again, are
these healthy societies?
All too often in situations of armed conflicts, rape and other acts
of sexual violence are used as military tactics. The use of sexual
violence as a strategy of war is distinctively destructive and not
only leaves victims with significant psychological scars but also
tears apart the fabric of families and affected communities. Sexual
Violence and Effective Redress for Victims in Post-Conflict
Situations: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a collection of
innovative research that analyzes these crimes and their
implications for the needs of victims in post-conflict justice
processes and how these needs can be effectively addressed in order
to support the affected community. To conduct this analysis, it
explores the distinct aspects of these crimes to understand the
nature and extent of the social challenges and damage facing the
victim, and examines the challenges and limitations of
international criminal justice in dealing with a wide range of
victim needs. While highlighting topics including judicial
accountability, victims' rights, and criminal justice, this book is
ideally designed for psychologists, therapists, government
officials, academicians, policymakers, and researchers.
Does work give our lives purpose, meaning and status? Or is it a
tedious necessity that will soon be abolished by automation,
leaving humans free to enjoy a life of leisure and basic income? In
this erudite and highly readable book, Jon Cruddas MP argues that
it is imperative that the Left rejects the siren call of
technological determinism and roots it politics firmly in the
workplace. Drawing from his experience of his own Dagenham and
Rainham constituency, he examines the history of Marxist and social
democratic thinking about work in order to critique the fatalism of
both Blairism and radical left techno-utopianism, which, he
contends, have more in common than either would like to admit. He
argues that, especially in the context of COVID-19, socialists must
embrace an ethical socialist politics based on the dignity and
agency of the labour interest. This timely book is a brilliant
intervention in the highly contentious debate on the future of
work, as well as an ambitious account of how the left must
rediscover its animating purpose or risk irrelevance.
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