Gender, Work and Community After De-Industrialisation

A Psychosocial Approach to Affect
2012. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-230-24706-2
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Identity Studies in the Social Sciences

How does an industrial community cope when they are told that closure is inevitable? What if this is only the last in a 200 year long line of threats, insecurities and closure? How did people weather the storms and how do they face the future now? While attempts to regenerate communities are everywhere, we do not often hear from the people themselves just how they managed to create safe collective spaces or how the fall of the whole house of cards brought with it effects which can be felt by young people who never knew the town when it was an industrial heartland. We hear the story of how men and women tried to cope and still want to retain their community in the face of its destruction. What can they and will they have to pass to the next generation and where will that leave the young people themselves, who have nothing to stay for but are unable to leave? This book examines these crucial questions facing post-industrial societies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walkerdine, V.

Jimenez, L.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Dedication Acknowledgements Introduction: Hiraeth Two Hundred Years of Iron and Steel  Advanced Liberalism  Communal Beingness and Affect  Deindustrialisation, Suffering, Crisis and Catastrophe  Producing Pride in Masculinity: The Hard Steelworker  The Next Generation  Women, Gays and Mammy's Boys  What About the Women?  To the Future? Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

VALERIE WALKERDINE Distinguished Research Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK. She is editor of the journal . Her previous books include and. She is also a practising mixed media and installation artist.

LUIS JIMENEZ Senior Lecturer at the School of Psychology, University of East London, UK. He is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, physician and sociologist. He has researched and published socio-psychoanalytic aspects on male emotional communication as well as psychosocial research on changes on gendered aspects of male identities within a context of de-industrialisation in the UK.