Solidarity, Memory and Identity / edited by Wojciech Owczarski, Maria Virginia Filomena Cremasco.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Owczarski, Wojciech, editor.

Cremasco, Maria Virginia Filomena, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Solidarity--Cross-cultural studies.

Solidarity.

Social participation--Cross-cultural studies.

Social participation.

Discrimination--Cross-cultural studies.

Discrimination.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

viii, 375 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Summary:

In today's context of rapid socio-political changes, with deepening ethnic and religious conflicts on the one hand, and a diminishing feeling of identification with the community on the other, reflection on the idea of "solidarity" is very much necessary. This book provides answers to the following questions: "What is the idea of solidarity today?"; "How can it be defined?"; "How has it evolved over recent decades?"; "How does it manifest itself in social life?"; "How is it reflected in the arts?"; and, above all, "How does it relate to collective memory and identity?" With this outline of topic areas in mind, this volume brings together essays analysing various aspects of the concept of solidarity: namely, philosophical, social, political, cultural, historical, psychological and artistic. The book's interdisciplinary character is testament to the complexity of perspectives and contexts in which the phenomenon of solidarity can be described today in the social sciences and the humanities. As such, it contains chapters devoted to the history of ideas; international relations and political conflicts in the modern world; national minorities; racism and anti-Semitism; and twentieth-century crimes against humanity, as well as psychological case studies, experimental research on mechanisms of social behaviour, and analyses of works of art. The contributors to this volume represent academic centres from Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe. They are deeply concerned with, fighting against any forms of discrimination, and, as such, their respective chapters mark a contribution to the constant search for the improvement of the fate of societies and individuals in different corners of the globe. Consequently, this book has an ethical dimension, in addition to its cognitive side, inspiring its readers to undertake efforts to help victims of social exclusion, persecution and crime. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Philosophy

Chapter 1 Like a Phoenix: The Emergence and Deformation of Solidarity / Mohineet Kaur Boparai Boparai, Mohineet Kaur 4

Chapter 2 Global Solidarity Mission impossible in Sociological Perspective / Marcin Lisak Lisak, Marcin 10

Chapter 3 On Compassion and Ethics: Readings on Marx and Buddhism / Mariana Tavares Ferreira Ferreira, Mariana Tavares 28

Chapter 4 Absolving the Other: The Gandhian Discourse / Alok Oak Oak, Alok 34

Chapter 5 Multilevel Identity Matrix and Necessity of Solidarity to Difference / Tadej Pirc Pirc, Tadej 48

Chapter 6 The Modern We: Collective Memory, Particularity, and Metaphysics / Ronny Miron Miron, Ronny 63

Chapter 7 From Ethics to Politics: Alain Badiou and Generic Humanity / Nastaran Saremy Saremy, Nastaran 86

Part II Politics and History

Chapter 8 Collective Representations of the Past after World War II: A Preliminary Outline / Amelia Korzeniewska Korzeniewska, Amelia 100

Chapter 9 Modernity's Simulacra: The Recovered History / Viorelia Manolache Manolache, Viorelia 114

Chapter 10 German Writers' Perceptions of Solidarity / Marion Brandt Brandt, Marion 124

Chapter 11 Reconfigurations of "Solidarity": Polish Migrants in Ireland / Natalia Mazurkiewicz Mazurkiewicz, Natalia 135

Chapter 12 A Jewish Cultural Connection: Jewish Identity Salience and Majority Membership in a Modem Canadian Setting / Noah J. Millman Millman, Noah J. 153

Chapter 13 The Quest for an East African Identity / Stefan Johann Plenk Plenk, Stefan Johann 169

Chapter 14 Solidarity in African Culture: Ubuntu / Petria M. Theron Theron, Petria M. 191

Part III Psychology

Chapter 15 Violence, Dream Work (Dream's Elaboration) and the Testimonial Horizon / Paulo Endo Endo, Paulo 210

Chapter 16 Psychic Trauma and Memory / Maria Virginia Filomena Cremasco Cremasco, Maria Virginia Filomena 220

Chapter 17 Migration and Survival: An Analysis of Memory, Identity, Solidarity and Coping among the Gulag Survivors of World War II / Amanda A. Chalupa Chalupa, Amanda A., Monica Tomlinson Tomlinson, Monica 227

Chapter 18 Status, Identity, and Solidarity in Task Groups / Martha Foschi Foschi, Martha 242

Part IV The Art

Chapter 19 Toward a Possible Partage of Memory: "History" and "Solidarity" in Joseph Conrad / Kaoru Yamamoto Yamamoto, Kaoru 258

Chapter 20 Gendered Concepts of Identity and Memory on Yael Dayan's Prose / Viktoria Pötzl Pötzl, Viktoria 270

Chapter 21 "Always look after your own blood": Memory and Kinship Ties in Alistair MacLeod's No Great Mischief / Barbara Kijek Kijek, Barbara 282

Chapter 22 Literary Representation of the Transpersonal Dimension of Massive Trauma: Stoic Solidarity during the Communist Terror in Lithuania / Ingrida Egle Zindziuviene Zindziuviene, Ingrida Egle 297

Chapter 23 Solidarity with Animals: The Mechanism of Anthropocentrism in Michael Faber's Novel Under the Skin / Monika Zólkós Zólkós, Monika 314

Chapter 24 "We are all unreliable narrators": Solidarity, Memory and Identity in Contemporary Dementia Narratives / Naomi Kruger Kruger, Naomi 322

Chapter 25 Holocaust Memory and Experience of World War II: Interpretation based on Selected Films / Mariusz Wirski Wirski, Mariusz 332

Chapter 26 Polish Critical Art: Solidarity against "Defective" Persons / Wanda Dittrich Dittrich, Wanda 341

Chapter 27 The Cry of Freedom: Solidarity in Modern Media-Music and Film / Magdalena Zegarlinska Zegarlinska, Magdalena 348.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1443870633

9781443870634

OCLC:

898154960

Publisher Number:

99961650992