The psychology and politics of the collective groups, crowds, and mass identifications / edited by Ruth Parkin-Gounelas.

Other author Parkin-Gounelas, Ruth, 1950-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge,
Descriptionviii, 221 p. ; 24 cm.
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SeriesRoutledge studies in social and political thought ; 75
Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 75. ^A519502
Contents Psychoanalysis and the group -- Brother animal's long tail : Sigmund Freud, Victor Tausk and intellectual influence / Mandy Merck -- Mass enjoyment and the society of the camp : the revised case of Dorian Gray / Josiane Paccaud-Huguet -- Interview with Ernesto Laclau / Conducted by Ruth Parkin-Gounelas -- What's in a crowd? -- Crowds, agency and passion : reconsidering the roots of the social bond / Stephen Reicher -- "A swinish multitude" versus "a crowd of golden daffodils" / Jina Politi -- The masses as a "vanishing mediator" : class and politics in Duan Kovacevic's the Professional / Sean Homer -- Global networks and mass identifications -- Globality, the totalitarian mass, and national belonging / Effie Yiannopoulou -- Geographies of cultural globalization and cosmopolitanisms of the future / Joseph Michael Gratale -- "Touching everyone" : media identifications, imagined communities and new media technologies in the case of madeleine mccann / Nicola Rehling -- Swarm intelligence : blogging and on-line subjectivities / Holger Briel -- Epilogue: pluralities to come -- Ruth parkin-gounelas -- Contributors -- References -- Index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2011040462
ISBN9780415510264
ISBN0415510260