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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Parkin-Gounelas, Ruth, 1950-

Series:

Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 75.

Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 75

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social groups.

Social psychology.

Group identity.

Individuality.

Collective behavior.

Online social networks.

Physical Description:

viii, 221 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2012.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415510264

0415510260

OCLC:

754735897