Gender, work and community after de-industrialisation: a psychosocial approach to affect

This book explores the processes of community, regeneration, relationality and affect in a small Welsh town after the closure of its iron and steel works -an industry at the heart of this community. VALERIE WALKERDINE Distinguished Research Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK. She is editor of the journal 'Subjectivity'. Her previous books include 'Growing up Girl: Psychosocial Explorations of Gender and Class 'and' Children, Gender, Videogames: Towards a Relational Approach to Multimedia'. 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. INDICE: 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

• ISBN: 978-0-230-24706-2
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 23/12/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés