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'May you live in interesting times' was made famous by Sir Austen
Chamberlain. The premise is that 'interesting times' are times of
upheaval, conflict and insecurity - troubled times. With the
growing numbers of displaced populations and the rise in the
politics of fear and hate, we are facing challenges to our very
'species-being'. Papers in the volume include ethnographic studies
on the 'refugee crisis', the 'financial crisis' and the 'rule of
law crisis' in the Mediterranean as well as the crisis of violence
and hunger in South America.
Many of us feel a pressing desire to be differentāto be other
than who we are. Self-conscious, we anxiously perceive our
shortcomings or insufficiencies, wondering why we are how we are
and whether we might be different. Often, we wish to alter
ourselves, to change our relationships, and to transform the person
we areĀ in those relationships. Not only a philosophical
question about how other people change, self-alteration is also a
practical careācanĀ IĀ change, and
how?Ā Self-Alteration: How People Change Themselves across
CulturesĀ explores and analyzes these apparently universal
hopes and their related existential dilemmas. The essays here come
at the subject of the self and its becoming through case studies of
modes of transformation of the self. They do this with social
processes and projects that reveal how the self acquires a
non-trivial new meaning in and through its very process of
alteration. By focusing on ways we are allowed to change ourselves,
including through religious and spiritual traditions and
innovations, embodied participation in therapeutic programs like
psychoanalysis and gendered care services, and political activism
or relationships with animals, the authors in this volume create a
model for cross-cultural or global analysis of social-self change
that leads to fresh ways of addressing the 'self' itself.Ā
Many of us feel a pressing desire to be differentāto be other
than who we are. Self-conscious, we anxiously perceive our
shortcomings or insufficiencies, wondering why we are how we are
and whether we might be different. Often, we wish to alter
ourselves, to change our relationships, and to transform the person
we areĀ in those relationships. Not only a philosophical
question about how other people change, self-alteration is also a
practical careācanĀ IĀ change, and
how?Ā Self-Alteration: How People Change Themselves across
CulturesĀ explores and analyzes these apparently universal
hopes and their related existential dilemmas. The essays here come
at the subject of the self and its becoming through case studies of
modes of transformation of the self. They do this with social
processes and projects that reveal how the self acquires a
non-trivial new meaning in and through its very process of
alteration. By focusing on ways we are allowed to change ourselves,
including through religious and spiritual traditions and
innovations, embodied participation in therapeutic programs like
psychoanalysis and gendered care services, and political activism
or relationships with animals, the authors in this volume create a
model for cross-cultural or global analysis of social-self change
that leads to fresh ways of addressing the 'self' itself.Ā
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