Tribalism The Evolutionary Origins of Fear Politics /

Unearthing the most primal motivations behind the fear politics movements sweeping across the USA, Europe, and the Middle East, Stevan E. Hobfoll examines how the increasing sense of threat from the political and cultural “other” or “outsider” engenders an evolutionary, built-in “defend and aggress”...

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Main Author: Hobfoll, Stevan E. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Tribal Self and the Power of Catastrophic Threat Messaging
  • 2. Threat and the Tribal Self
  • 3. Truth and Rationality become Casualties of Fear
  • 4. Historical Threat and the Priming of Violence
  • 5. The Primal Emergence of the Authoritarian Father Leader
  • 6. Radical Jihad and Paranoid Supremacists
  • 7. Tribal Enslavement of Women: Women’s Bodies as a Battleground
  • 8. Barricade and Throw Grenades: The Entrenchment of Tribalism and Fear Politics
  • 9. Through a Glass Darkly: Reversing Tribal Intolerance and Aggression.