Collective Consciousness and Gender
This book explores collective consciousness and how it is applied to the pursuit of gender justice in international law. It discusses how the collective mode of behaviour and identity can lead to unconscious role-playing based on the social norms, expecta
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Alexandra Walker
Collective Consciousness and Gender
Alexandra Walker
Collective Consciousness and Gender
Alexandra Walker Centre for Social Impact UNSW Australia Sydney, NSW, Australia
ISBN 978-1-137-54413-1 ISBN 978-1-137-54414-8 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54414-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018947180 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: Yuri_Arcurs/gettyimages This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Limited The registered company address is: The Campus, 4 Crinan Street, London, N1 9XW, United Kingdom
This book is dedicated to my mother, Anne Walker; the wisest person I know.
Foreword
This highly original book claims as well as demonstrates that conceptualizing the international community as a global collective self with collective consciousness provides valuable understandings as well as new research questions about its laws, limitations, and future opportunities. Adopting the ‘sociology of human consciousness’ approach—developed by George Herbert Mead, Walter Buckley, Tom R. Burns and Erik Engdahl, and Norbert Wiley, among others—the book shows that global collective consciousness operates as a ‘public mind’ of the world community, in particular, its global legal community with diverse networks. The collective consciousness is understood as a reflective, social activity, developed through language, group communication, collective representations (including self and other conceptions), institutional and cultural arrangements, and processes of self-reflectivity. The book draws also on the work of psychiatrist Carl Jung and post-Jungians to explain ways in which a collective self consists of conscious processes as well as unconscious mechanisms which derive from (ar
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