The great decline : from the era of hope and progress to the age of fear and rage

John Bone

"It seems clear that many formerly stable societies in wealthy developed countries appear to be falling into an apparent state of 'permacrisis' accompanied by an increasingly angry and irrational social and political culture that is undermining the peace and stability of our societies and democratic institutions, from the local to the global. Applying an original biosocial approach (the social map), and drawing on ideas and evidence from sociology, history and political economy, to psychology, neuroscience and epigenetics, John Bone argues that conditions in our turbocapitalist and increasingly estranged, media dominated societies have created a toxic environment, deeply damaging to our mental and physical health. As well as shedding new light on our current troubles, Bone also outlines why this leaves us ill prepared to deal with two of the greatest challenges confronting humanity: the rise of AI and automation and how we deal with climate change."

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Year of publication:	2024
Authors:	Bone, John
Publisher:	Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press
Subject:	Wirtschaftskrise \| Economic crisis \| Soziologie \| Sociology \| Politische Kultur \| Political culture \| Wirtschaftskultur \| Economic culture \| Wirtschaftspsychologie \| Economic psychology \| Politische Soziologie \| Unsicherheit \| Krise
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

Extent:	iv, 299 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Literaturangaben. - Index Front Cover -- The Great Decline: From the Era of Hope and Progress to the Age of Fear and Rage -- Copyright information -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The New Age of Angst -- Notes -- Part I Being Human in an Evolving World -- 1 Who Are We and Why Does It Matter? -- Being human -- Bridging binaries -- Mapping the world -- '4e' cognition: from the moderate to the 'out there' -- The Social Map -- Feel for the game -- Communication, categorization and mapping -- Relating to the world: habit, routine and control -- The individual and The Social Map Belonging to the tribe -- Diversity, values and morality -- Achieving balance and control -- Why this matters -- Primalization -- Unpredictability and experiential overload -- Allostatic load -- Social epigenetics -- The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis? -- Notes -- 2 The Long Road to Modernity -- From the Holocene -- From small-scale to large-scale societies and the production of social order -- Crystallization and decrystallization and the dialectic of order and disorder -- Perceiving order -- Order, governmentality and crises -- Towards the early modern world -- The rise of the West Feudal Christendom -- War and (Black) Death -- Notes -- 3 From Golden Age to Golden Age? -- The Renaissance -- Discovery and change -- Rationalization, revolution and romanticism -- Towards 'high' modernity -- Colonialism and imperialism -- The legacy of imperialism -- Internal divisions -- The Great Crash -- Keynes, welfare capitalism and the New Deal -- Notes -- Part II Derailing the Modern Project -- 4 The Neoliberal 'Dawn' -- Enter neoliberalism -- Restlessness, 'freedom' and aspiration -- Economic crises -- The political shift -- The revolution Culture warriors: free markets and social conservatism -- Freedom, risk and insulation -- A VUCA world? -- Notes -- 5 Financial Alchemy and Economic Crises -- What does finance do? -- The problem of 'big finance' -- Financial fictions and the 'little people' -- Enter sub-prime -- Financialization and phantom wealth -- Regulation, security, insecurity and the conscience of capitalism -- Notes -- 6 Globalization, the 'New' Labour Market, AI and the 4th Industrial Revolution -- Shareholder value and the privileging of the rentier -- Globalizing labour Repression, emotional labour and toxic positivity -- Unshared obligation -- Going home -- Automation, artificial intelligence and the future of work -- Notes -- 7 Marketized Housing -- The uneven development of urban housing -- Housing policy and social reform -- Architectural trends, garden cities and 'brutalism' -- Deregulation, housing finance and the return of the landlord -- Neoliberal converts: the small-scale rentier -- Gentrification and ghettoization -- The psychosocial impact of housing inequality and insecurity -- 'Outsiders' -- Notes -- 8 Consumerism, Community and Media
ISBN:	978-1-5292-1303-4 ; 978-1-5292-1302-7 ; 978-1-5292-1306-5 ; 978-1-5292-1305-8 ; 978-1-5292-1304-1
Classification:	Politische Prozesse: Allgemeines ; Internationale Zusammenarbeit: Allgemeines
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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