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Therapeutic Worlds

Popular Psychology and the Sociocultural Organisation of Intimate Life

By: Daniel Nehring,Dylan Kerrigan

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Therapeutic Worlds

Popular Psychology and the Sociocultural Organisation of Intimate Life

By: Daniel Nehring,Dylan Kerrigan

This book builds a fresh perspective on therapeutic narratives of intimate life. Focusing on the question of how popular psychology organises everyday experiences of intimacy, its argument is grounded in qualitative research in Trinidad in the Anglophone Caribbean. Against the backdrop of Trinidad’s colonial and postcolonial history, the authors map the development of therapeutic institutions and popular therapeutic practices and explore how transnationally mobile, commercial forms of popular psychology, mostly originating in the Global North, have taken root in Trinidadian society through online social networks, self-help books, and other media. In this sense, the book adds to social research on the transnational spread of a digital attention economy and its participation in the proliferation of popular psychological discourse. Drawing on in-depth interviews with self-help readers, the book considers how popular psychology organises their everyday experiences of intimate life. It argues that the proliferation of self-help media contributes to the psychologisation of intimate relationships and obscures the social dimensions of intimacy in terms of gender, race, ethnicity, and other social structures and inequalities. At the same time, the book draws on anthropological arguments about the colonisation of consciousness in the Global South to interpret the insertion of transnationally mobile popular psychology into Trinidadian society. An innovative contribution to scholarship on therapeutic cultures, which explores the widely under-researched dissemination of popular psychology in the Global South, the book adds to a sociological understanding of the ways in which therapeutic narratives of self and intimate relationships come to be incorporated into everyday experience. As such, it will appeal to scholars of cultural studies, anthropology, and the sociology of gender, sexuality, families, and personal life.

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1317010779

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Transnational Popular Psychology and the Global Self-Help Industry

The Politics of Contemporary Social Change

By: Daniel Nehring,Emmanuel Alvarado,Eric C. Hendriks,Dylan Kerrigan

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Transnational Popular Psychology and the Global Self-Help Industry

The Politics of Contemporary Social Change

By: Daniel Nehring,Emmanuel Alvarado,Eric C. Hendriks,Dylan Kerrigan

Self-help books aim to empower their readers and deliver happiness and personal fulfilment but do they really live up to this? This book offers a fresh perspective on self-help culture and popular psychology. Research on this subject matter has generally focused on the USA and the Global Northwest. In contrast, this book explores the production, circulation and consumption of self-help books from an innovative transnational perspective. Case studies on Trinidad, Mexico, the People's Republic of China, the UK and the USA explore the roles which self-help's therapeutic narratives of self and social relationships play in the contemporary world. In this context, the book questions the extent to which self-help fulfils its promise of individual autonomy and contentment. At the same time, it addresses debates about contemporary political change under transnational processes of cultural standardization.

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210

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Springer

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0230370861

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Imagining Society

The Case for Sociology

By: Nehring, Daniel,Kerrigan, Dylan

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Imagining Society

The Case for Sociology

By: Nehring, Daniel,Kerrigan, Dylan

Re-examining C.Wright Mills’s legacy as a jumping off point, this original introduction to sociology illuminates global concepts, themes and practices that are fundamental to the discipline. It makes a case for the importance of developing a sociological imagination and provides the steps for how readers can do that. The unique text: • Offers succinct and wide-ranging coverage of many of the most important themes and concepts taught in first year sociology courses; • Has a global framework and case material which engages with decoloniality and critiques an overly white, western and developed world view of sociology; • Is woven through with contemporary examples, from social media to social inequality, big data to the self-help industry; • Rethinks and re-imagines what a critically committed, politically engaged and publicly relevant sociology should look like in the 21st century. This is a lively, engaging and accessible overview of sociology for all its students, teachers and people who want to learn more about sociology today. It is a welcome clarion call for sociology’s importance in public life.

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Bristol University Press

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1529204909

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Embedded Formative Assessment

By: Dylan Wiliam

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Embedded Formative Assessment

By: Dylan Wiliam

Formative assessment plays an important role in increasing teacher quality and student learning when it’s viewed as a process rather than a tool. Emphasizing the instructional side of formative assessment, this book explores in depth the use of classroom questioning, learning intentions and success criteria, feedback, collaborative and cooperative learning, and self-regulated learning to engineer effective learning environments for students.

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Solution Tree Press

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1936765012

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Transnational Popular Psychology and the Global Self-Help Industry

The Politics of Contemporary Social Change

By: Daniel Nehring,Emmanuel Alvarado,Eric C. Hendriks,Dylan Kerrigan

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The Politics of Contemporary Social Change

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Gastro Obscura

A Food Adventurer's Guide

By: Cecily Wong,Dylan Thuras,Atlas Obscura

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Gastro Obscura

A Food Adventurer's Guide

By: Cecily Wong,Dylan Thuras,Atlas Obscura

A New York Times, USA Today, and national indie bestseller. A Feast of Wonder! Created by the ever-curious minds behind Atlas Obscura, this breathtaking guide transforms our sense of what people around the world eat and drink. Covering all seven continents, Gastro Obscura serves up a loaded plate of incredible ingredients, food adventures, and edible wonders. Ready for a beer made from fog in Chile? Sardinia’s “Threads of God” pasta? Egypt’s 2000-year-old egg ovens? But far more than a menu of curious minds delicacies and unexpected dishes, Gastro Obscura reveals food’s central place in our lives as well as our bellies, touching on history–trace the network of ancient Roman fish sauce factories. Culture–picture four million women gathering to make rice pudding. Travel–scale China’s sacred Mount Hua to reach a tea house. Festivals–feed wild macaques pyramid of fruit at Thailand’s Monkey Buffet Festival. And hidden gems that might be right around the corner, like the vending machine in Texas dispensing full sized pecan pies. Dig in and feed your sense of wonder. “Like a great tapas meal, Gastro Obscura is deep yet snackable, and full of surprises. This is the book for anyone interested in eating, adventure and the human condition.” –Tom Colicchio, chef and activist “This exquisite guide kept me at the breakfast table until dinner time.” –Kyle Maclachlan, actor and vintner

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Workman Publishing Company

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1523511877

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Imagining Society

The Case for Sociology

By: Nehring, Daniel,Kerrigan, Dylan

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The Case for Sociology

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Therapeutic Worlds

Popular Psychology and the Sociocultural Organisation of Intimate Life

By: Daniel Nehring,Dylan Kerrigan

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Popular Psychology and the Sociocultural Organisation of Intimate Life

By: Daniel Nehring,Dylan Kerrigan

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