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How Outlaws Win Friends and Influence People.
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- ISBN: 9783030152062
- ISBN: 9783030152055
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1 online resource (236 pages) - Publisher: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan US, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1 Outlaws and Supporters -- Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs: From Rebels to Entrepreneurs -- What This Book Is Not About -- Feminine Advantage: A Digression on Method -- Lack and the Criminogenic Features of Neoliberalism -- References -- 2 Sublime and Power -- No Sublime Experience Without 'Safe' Distance -- On the Fantasy of Savage Bikers as Sovereign 'Sacred Monsters' -- The Sublime Experience of Self-Negation -- Identification and Transformation -- References -- 3 Sovereignty and the Political -- 'It Sucks When They Shout "You Nazi!", but Still…' -- Self-Harming and Melancholia Under Neoliberalism -- Transgression and Sovereignty -- Riding and (the Threat of) Death -- Riding in a Pack, Killing and Sovereign Manhood -- Neoliberal State and the Appeal of Non-state Sovereign Actors -- Conspiracy Theories, Paranoia and the Search for Sovereignty -- References -- 4 Sacred Order and Symbolic Immortality -- On the Desire for Sacred Order and the Function of the Sacred Patch -- On the Paradoxical Relation of the Sacred and the Commodified -- Defending the Sacred Against Dilution, Mockery, and Prohibitions -- References -- 5 Solidarity and Sacrifice -- How Violent Acts Create Heartwarming Feelings -- Symbolic Death and Rebirth: Therapy Culture to Honor Culture -- Charitable Giving, Legitimization, and a 'Heart in the Right Place' -- References -- Epilogue -- References -- Index. |
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