ISBN:
9780192551917
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (339 pages)
Edition:
1. edition
Uniform Title:
Die Politik der Demütigung
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.3309
Keywords:
Social control History
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Social control Political aspects
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Humiliation Social aspects
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
The story of how humiliation has been used as a means of coercion and control in the modern age - from the shaving of the heads of alleged women collaborators in occupied France to the social media pillorying of the 21st century.
Abstract:
Cover -- The Politics of Humiliation: A Modern History -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION: The Power of Shame -- History and Its Interpretation -- Humiliation as Strategy and Stigma -- International Relations -- Semantic Distinctions -- People, Places, Times -- Shame, Humility, and the History of Emotions -- 1: PILLORIES AND PUBLIC BEATINGS: State Punishments under Fire -- Public Shaming in the Early Modern Period -- The Pillory's Final Days -- Human Dignity as a Legal Argument -- Corporal Punishment: An Affront to Dignity -- The Social Pyramid of Shame -- Gender -- Civic Honour -- Forced Publicity -- Popular Justice -- 'Symbolic Pillories' during National Socialism -- Other Countries, Same Customs -- Post-war Shame and Shaming -- Civility versus Barbarism -- 2: SOCIAL SITES OF PUBLIC SHAMING: From the Classroom to Online Bullying -- Schools as Laboratories of Shaming -- Do Children Have Honour? -- Expert Advice -- The Pedagogical Turn -- School Discipline in Germany, East and West -- The Power of Peer Groups -- Discipline and Humiliation in the Military -- Initiation Practices: Self-effacement and Empowerment -- Women's Dignity: Rape and Sexism -- Trial by Media and the Pillory of Public Opinion -- The Freedom of the Press versus the Right to Personal Honour -- Consensual Degradation on TV -- Online Shaming -- 3: HONOUR AND THE LANGUAGE OF HUMILIATION IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS -- Lord Macartney and the Emperor of China -- Sovereign Equality and Diplomatic Ceremony -- The Polyvalence of Ceremonial Gestures: The Kiss on the Hand -- From Genuflecting Reverences to Bowing -- The British in India: Colonial Humiliation and 'Native' Etiquette -- Europeans in China: Fighting against the Kowtow -- Satisfaction and Regrets -- The Berlin Kowtow Affair of 1901: Who Humiliates Whom? -- Honour and Shame, War and Peace in Europe.
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