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Ideas and theory

Book reviews covering developments & debates in philosophy, psychology and social thought which can inform work to address conflicted situations:

Analysis of ‘populism’ – and a proposal for an inclusive form based on the experience of community organising, particularly involving faith organisations

What gets in the way of us gaining, keeping and sharing knowledge? Quassim Cassam’s stimulating survey of blocks to rationality / an assertion of the need for careful thinking in times of ‘post-truth’ and ‘epistemic insouciance’

Dignity and politics in the work of Hannah Arendt: a clear account of an important thinker’s key concepts, showing how our ‘rights’ are shaped by how humans act in relationship to one another in this diverse and complex world

Social psychology in polarised times: Jonathan Haidt’s landmark 2012 book continues to attract new interest …

Some theoretical perspectives of the political scientist Ernesto Laclau, systematically explained in a new book covering the ‘ontology’ of social conflict

 

  • Good practice in conflict resolution
    • Escaping the vortex?
    • Grazing each other’s lives
    • Rainwater harvesting … and conflict resolution
    • Education / mediation
    • ‘Interactive problem solving’ in conflict resolution
  • Understanding – and responding to – ‘extremism’
    • Research of how the times darken
    • Important insights on Europe’s new extremists
    • When ‘extremists’ come to your city …
    • What kind of people might become ‘extremists’?
    • Nodding to keep people talking …
  • Ideas and theory
    • A rational man, on twisted thinking
    • Re-weaving solidarity in the age of polarisation?
    • Hannah Arendt and the politics of dignity
    • Why good people disagree on important issues
    • Social conflict / ontology
  • Identities / belonging / migrations
    • Pennine views
    • Talking about it more to make it matter less
    • Refugees, writing and rights
    • Facing up to racism in Scotland
    • ‘Giving in’ to ‘anti-immigration politics’?
    • Neighbourhoods of relegation
    • Caledonian diversity
  • Booknotes @processnorth
    • Booknotes: Conflict in focus
    • Booknotes: two new volumes on race and theory
    • Booknotes: Why should we care?
    • Booknotes: Coming in from the margins
    • Booknotes: Enoch and his influence

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