Overview
- An ambitious synthesis of sociological and psychoanalytic theories of racism
Conceptual debates illustrated systematically throughout with applied case studies
Brings together debates from both sides of the Atlantic, ensuring the book's appeal as a unique survey of an underexplored field
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About this book
Sociological explanations of racism tend to concentrate on the structures and dynamics of modern life that facilitate discrimination and hierarchies of inequality. In doing so, they often fail to address why racial hatred arises (as opposed to how it arises) as well as to explain why it can be so visceral and explosive in character. Bringing together sociological perspectives with psychoanalytic concepts and tools, this text offers a clear, accessible and thought-provoking synthesis of varieties of theory, with the aim of clarifying the complex character of racism, discrimination and social exclusion in the contemporary world.
About the author
SIMON CLARKE is Associate Director of the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies, CESER Research Fellow, and Lecturer in Sociology at the University of the West of England. He has published widely on the psychoanalytic understanding of racism, ethnic hatred and social exclusion, and is Associate Editor of the Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Social Theory, Psychoanalysis and Racism
Authors: Simon Clarke
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-09957-0
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2003
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 198
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave