Degradation rituals : our sadomasochistic society / Lisiunia A. Romanienko.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Romanienko, Lisiunia A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sadomasochism.

Cruelty.

Interpersonal relations.

Physical Description:

xiv, 306 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

Degradation Rituals describes the socioeconomic and political conditions that give rise to the routinization of sadomasochistic mechanisms of survival under increasingly coercive patterns of human interaction. It describes the distortion of conventional mediating methods of social, economic, and political engagement that compels individuals to choose these particular forms of ruthless exchanges, and disentangles a variety of power-based social and sensual phenomenon influencing cruel cultural patterns of sadomasochistic practices in and beyond the bedroom. Romanienko has immersed herself within motorcycling cultures on three continents, engaged in urban ecological squatting with anarchists throughout Europe, and observed innovative scientific collaborations at world-class biotechnology trade shows. She has investigated self-reported sexual fetish practices, demonstrable Egyptian Islamic intellectual militancy, court cases influencing avant-garde ecological and higher education policies, and many other mixed methodologies. Her analysis of these experiences integrates classic and contemporary theory to demystify the detrimental effects of de-civilizing tendencies that are inadvertently solidifying a surprising simultaneity of extreme cruelty and kindness. Book jacket.

Contents:

Deconstructing degradation rituals

Degradation rituals in incarceration

Degradation rituals in biotechnology

Degradation rituals in american higher education

Degradation rituals in off-road motorcycling in africa

Degradation rituals in mobile squatting in poland

Degradation rituals in the bedroom

Degradation rituals in ecological sustainability

Degradation rituals in chinese cultural museums

Degradation rituals in german holocaust compensation

Degradation rituals among islamic intellectuals of egypt

Degradation rituals for the imminent future.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137393982

113739398X

OCLC:

863595991