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Transnational Popular Psychology and the Global Self-Help Industry: The Politics of Contemporary Social Change
Daniel Nehring
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Description for Transnational Popular Psychology and the Global Self-Help Industry: The Politics of Contemporary Social Change
Hardback. Through a set of diverse case studies in five countries, this book re-examines the production, circulation and consumption of self-help narratives of empowerment and personal fulfilment and offers fresh insights into the ways in which popular psychology shapes our everyday lives from an innovative transnational perspective. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JM; VSP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 395.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
394g
Number of Pages
198
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230370852
SKU
V9780230370852
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Ref
99-15
About Daniel Nehring
Daniel Nehring is currently Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Worcester, UK. He has previously worked at Pusan National University, South Korea. Over the past ten years, he has done extensive research on transnational self-help cultures. Recent publications include Sociology (2013) and Intimacies and Cultural Change (2014, with Emmanuel Alvarado and Rosario Esteinou). Emmanuel Alvarado ... Read more
Reviews for Transnational Popular Psychology and the Global Self-Help Industry: The Politics of Contemporary Social Change
Their book `Transnational Popular Psychology and the Global Self-help Industry: The Politics of Contemporary Social Change' brings a much-needed theoretical and empirical balance into the scholarship on therapeutic culture and self-help, which has so far focused on the global North, in particular the Anglo-American context. ... the book's remarkable collection of data and its emphasis on multidirectional transnational cultural flows ... Read more