A social scientist with global affiliations, among others with
Columbia University in New York, University of Oslo in Norway, and
La Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris, Lindner takes us across
history and into nations worldwide to show how emotion spurs
hierarchies of domination and therefore causes subjugation, human
rights violations, abuse, conflict, and fighting. She spotlights
results ranging from the binding and subsequent deforming of
Chinese women's feet, to periods of slavery, bondage, feudalism,
apartheid, and other events across time. Related actions from
political domination internationally, to spousal or child abuse on
the homefront are addressed. Lindner looks at how widely divergent
societies--from the Japan of Samurais to the Meso America of
Aztecs, up to the modern Iraq at war--are driven by hierarchies of
emotionally-fueled control with rigid domination.
Combining classic literature with emerging research, Lindner
explains how similar dynamics are at work also in contemporary
societies of the West, albeit more covert. What is still lacking,
almost everywhere, is access to the full range of our emotions,
together with the skills to regulate these emotions so that they
become a liberating force in our lives, play a constructive role
for productive, fair, and so-called "good conflict," and inform our
institution building. Lindner concludes her book by laying out a
road map for how to reduce domination and increase human dignity,
both in our lives and in the world, by using the power of emotion
to implement global systemic change.
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