Passivity Generation: Human Rights and Everyday Morality

by Irene Bruna Seu

Book Overview

The book applies a unique mix of psychosocial methods to understand the complexity of emotional, cognitive and ideological responses to human rights violations and examines the banal quality of the everyday vocabularies that people use to make sense of human rights and their violations, and justify not intervening. In Passivity Generation, Irene Bruna Seu offers a vivid and compassionate account of how past experiences of trauma and suffering...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349454672
• ISBN13: 9781349454679
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"