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Affect, Alienation, and Politics in Therapeutic Culture - Capitalism on the Skin (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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Affect, Alienation, and Politics in Therapeutic Culture - Capitalism on the Skin (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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This book contributes to research on therapeutic culture by drawing
on longstanding ethnographic work and by offering a new theoretical
reading of therapeutic culture in today's society. It suggests that
the therapeutic field serves as a key site in which a number of
contradictions of capitalism are confronted and lived out. It shows
that therapeutic engagements are inherently ambivalent and
contradictory, as they can be articulated and engaged with in many
different ways and harnessed for diverse, and often contradictory,
political projects. The book takes issue with the interpretation of
therapeutic culture as merely individualising, depoliticizing and
working in congruence with neoliberalism, and shows that
therapeutic engagements may also open up a space for contestation
and critique of neoliberal capitalism, animate collective action
for social change and articulate alternative forms of life and
subjectivities. The book will speak to a wide variety of audiences
in the social sciences and will be of particular interest to those
working in the fields of sociology, anthropology, critical
psychology, cultural studies, gender studies, and critical social
theory.
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