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Systemic Humiliation in America

Finding Dignity within Systems of Degradation

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Editors:
  1. Daniel Rothbart

    1. School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, Arlington, VA, USA

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  • Addresses timely and often overlooked topics (humiliation, shame, and dignity)

  • Takes a broad and interdisciplinary approach, incorporating insights from the fields of sociology, social psychology, criminology, moral philosophy, and conflict analysis

  • Provides many examples and applications of "systemic humiliation" in the United States, with international implications

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Power and Humiliation

    • Daniel Rothbart
    Pages 1-16

  3. Social Conflicts and the Politics of Emotions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Can Systemic Humiliation Be Transformed into Systemic Dignity?

      • Linda M. Hartling, Evelin G. Lindner
      Pages 19-51

    3. Insults as Tools of Systemic Humiliation

      • Karina V. Korostelina
      Pages 53-73

    4. Systemic Humiliation and Practical Politics: Class Thematic Reasoning and the Rise of Donald Trump

      • Solon Simmons
      Pages 75-102

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 239-246
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About this book

This volume explores contemporary social conflict, focusing on a sort of violence that rarely receives coverage in the evening news. This violence occurs when powerful institutions seek to manipulate the thoughts of marginalized people—manufacturing their feelings and fostering a sense of inferiority—for the purpose of disciplinary control. Many American institutions strategically orchestrate this psychic violence through tactics of systemic humiliation. This book reveals how certain counter-measures, based in a commitment to human dignity and respect for every person’s inherent moral worth, can combat this violence. Rothbart and other contributors showcase various examples of this tug-of-war in the US, including the politics of race and class in the 2016 presidential campaign, the dehumanizing treatment of people with mental disabilities, and destructive parenting styles that foster cycles of humiliation and emotional pain. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, Arlington, VA, USA

    Daniel Rothbart

About the editor

Daniel Rothbart is Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, USA. In addition to serving as Co-Director of the Program for the Prevention of Mass Violence, he chairs the Sudan Task Group, an organization that seeks to build long-term peace in Sudan, Africa.

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