The Defiance of Global Commitment in Paperback £29.59

I am happy to report that THE DEFIANCE OF GLOBAL COMMITMENT is now in paperback for only £29.59!!!!

CLICK HERE for more

IN short summary, the book examines the complex ways our 'mass psychology' -- particularly in its more negative forms, as in the case of populist nationalism and nostalgic resentment -- are impacting social policy throughout the world and, in particular, the western societies of the global north.

The Brexit vote; the election of Trump; the upsurge of European nationalism; the devolution of the Arab Spring; global violence; Chinese expansionism; disruptive climate change; the riotous instabilities of the world capitalist system…While diverse in nature, these events share a common denominator: they are less a failure of policy, and more a complex social psychological reaction to globalization, the result of which presently threatens our survival on Earth.

Based on a critical reading of Freud’s Civilization and its discontents,  Castellani's book constructs a complex social psychology of how people all over the world are addressing globalization. Drawing on the latest advances in the cognitive, social, and complexity sciences, this timely volume presents a global model of defiance and the triangular tensions between nostalgic retreat, global aggression, and civil society, as manifested in forms ranging from nostalgic resentment and LGBTQI issues to racism and ecological aggression.

Revealing how globalization and its discontents manifest the darker reaches of the human psyche and its conflicted relations with others, this insightful monograph will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as postdoctoral researchers interested in fields such as globalization studies, complexity sciences and social psychology.