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An award-winning author and transdisciplinary social scientist
offers a must-read guide to paradigm change for creating a socially
and ecologically sustainable future. Gender, Humiliation, and
Global Security: Dignifying Relationships from Love, Sex, and
Parenthood to World Affairs aims at outlining the kind of change
that needs to be made if we wish to create a less crisis-prone
world. This audacious work describes a vision for an alternative
future, showing how new approaches to love can dignify gender
relations, sex, parenthood, and leadership, and how they can guide
us to a world where all citizens can live dignified lives. The book
is organized in three parts. Part I, "Gender, Humiliation, and Lack
of Security in Times of Transition," examines the nature of
humiliation and how love and humiliation are influenced by
large-scale, historical transitions such as globalization. Part II,
"Gender, Humiliation, and Lack of Security in the World Today,"
looks at love, sex, parenthood, and leadership and how they can be
dignified. Part III, "Global Security through Love and Humility in
the Future," explores how love can be used to inspire
psychological, social, cultural, and political strategies and to
stimulate global, systemic change.
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.
When the statue of Saddam Hussein fell and Iraqis danced on the
body, hitting it with their shoes, there was joy. Moments later,
when an American soldier climbed the statue to place an American
flag on the face, there was a national gasp, a moment of
humiliation for the Iraqis. Americans had claimed to be liberating
them, but the placing of the American flag was a sign of conquest.
The flag was quickly removed and replaced with an Iraqi flag, but
those tense moments were a brief example of the power and
potentially far-reaching, volatile effects of humiliating acts,
even when unintentional. In this fascianting book, Dr. Linder
examines and explains, across history and nations, how this
little-understood, often-overlooked emotion sparks outrage,
uprisings, conflict and war. With the insights of a seasoned
psychologist and peace scholar, the analytical skill of a linguist
who speaks seven languages, and the scholarship of a Columbia
University professor, Lindner explains which words and actions can
humiliate, how the victim perceives those words and actions, what
the consequences have been, and how individuals and organizations
can work to avoid instances in the future. From acts of humiliation
in Nazi Germany to intentional humiliations such as those at Abu
Graib, from events during the bloodbaths in Rwanda and Somalia, to
precursors to the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York, Lindner
offers vivid examples to explain how humiliation can be at the core
of international conflict.
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