Un ensayo demoledor que nos enfrenta a una gran pregunta: ¿estamos obligados a ser felices? Es más, ¿quién dicta qué es la felicidad? Tener o ser, esa es la cuestión. De un tiempo a esta parte, parece como si estuviéramos obligados a ser felices. Tanto los Estados como el mercado y la tecnología nos animan a dejar atrás el malestar (y, de paso, la inconformidad) y a disfrutar (¡sin protestas, por favor!) del presente. Pero, ¿eso es la felicidad? La industria de la felicidad –un oportuno antídoto contra esas frágiles obras de superación personal que atestan las mesas de novedades− explora el modo en que nuestras emociones se volvieron, para bien para mal, la religión de esta era. En ' La industria de la felicidad', William Davies recorre los pasillos de las empresas, laboratorios y oficinas gubernamentales para descubrir cómo se construye la noción dominante de felicidad, cómo se mide, cómo se vende. En el camino dibuja un implacable retrato del capitalismo contemporáneo y delinea otra idea de felicidad, acaso menos rentable, pero más esperanzadora. "La obra de Davies es un necesario antídoto contra el exceso de esos libros seudocientíficos sobre la felicidad que se han vuelto tan populares en los círculos empresariales." "New York Magazine" "William Davies sostiene que nuestra obsesión con la felicidad puede tener más a que ver con los intereses de las empresas y los gobiernos que con nuestra realización personal." "Fortune" "Un libro rico, lúcido y notable." John Gray, "Literary Review" "Una brillante, y a veces perturbadora, disección de nuestro tiempo." "Vice"

This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to the study of affectivity and human learning by bridging the gap between neuroscience, cultural and cognitive psychology. It brings together studies that go beyond the focus on cognitive-intellectual variables involved in learning processes and incorporate the study of the role played by affectivity and emotions in learning not only at educational settings but in all processes of transformation and human development, thus presenting affectivity as a catalyst and mediator of all daily learning processes. Chapters brought together in this contributed volume present both theoretical contributions and results of empirical research from different disciplines, such as neuroscience, cognitive psychology, cultural psychology, educational psychology, developmental psychology and philosophy, and are grouped into five thematic sections. The first part of the book brings together chapters discussing different aspects of the role played by affectivity in learning processes from the perspectives of cultural, educational and developmental psychology. The second part is dedicated to the role of affectivity for teachers during their training as educators and during their pedagogical practice in diverse contexts. The third part focuses on the relationship between affectivity and learning from a neuroscientific point of view. The fourth part discusses affectivity and learning in therapeutic and clinical contexts. Finally, the fifth part brings together chapters about affectivity and learning in everyday life. By bringing together this rich interdisciplinary collection of studies, Affectivity and Learning: Bridging the Gap Between Neurosciences, Cultural and Cognitive Psychology will be a valuable resource for researchers in the fields of psychology, neuroscience and education, as well as for educators and teachers interested in knowing more about the relationship between affectivity and human learning.

En un mundo saturado de mensajes "positivos", es necesario un análisis crítico y honesto del poder del pensamiento positivo. Este libro electrónico se propone desacreditar la falacia del "pensamiento positivo", cuestionando la creencia simplista de que basta con tener una actitud mental positiva para alcanzar el éxito y la felicidad, ignorando los desafíos, dificultades y reveses de la vida. Cuestionando la simplicidad del pensamiento positivo El libro "Más inteligente que el diablo", de Napoleón Hill, propone que la perseverancia y la positividad son las claves del éxito. Sin embargo, esta visión simplista no reconoce la compleja realidad de la vida. Afirmar que el pensamiento positivo es suficiente para lograr cualquier objetivo es negar la influencia de factores externos, como el contexto socioeconómico, las desigualdades sociales y las circunstancias individuales. La positividad como máscara de los problemas reales La industria de la felicidad, con sus libros, cursos y talleres, suele promover la positividad como una solución mágica a todos los problemas. Este enfoque puede ser peligroso, ya que enmascara problemas reales y culpa a las víctimas por sus fracasos. En lugar de alentar la búsqueda de soluciones reales a las dificultades, una positividad excesiva puede llevar a la autodesprecio y a la negación de la realidad. Emociones negativas: aprender de ellas Es importante reconocer que las emociones negativas son una parte natural de la vida. Sentir tristeza, enfado, frustración y miedo es normal y saludable. Negar estas emociones o intentar reprimirlas puede ser perjudicial para tu salud mental. La clave es aprender a abordarlos de manera constructiva, utilizándolos como oportunidades de crecimiento y aprendizaje. Una visión realista y equilibrada de la positividad La positividad no debe verse como una solución mágica para todos los problemas, sino más bien como una herramienta que puede ayudar a superar los desafíos. Es importante tener una visión realista y equilibrada, reconociendo que el éxito depende de una combinación de factores, como el trabajo duro, la resiliencia, la inteligencia y la adaptabilidad. Conclusión En lugar de perseguir una felicidad ilusoria, es importante buscar una vida auténtica y significativa. Esto significa reconocer la complejidad de la vida, afrontar las emociones negativas de forma constructiva y aprender de los errores. La positividad, cuando se utiliza de forma consciente y equilibrada, puede ser una herramienta valiosa en este viaje. Aprenda mucho más...

Love and Sexuality in Social Theory considers the role that love and sexuality play in private and public life. Drawing on both classical and contemporary social theory, this book presents both theoretical and empirical studies of love and sexuality as social factors, from the earliest reconstructions of modern emotional life to the most recent analyses of liquid love. With attention to the consequences that passions and desires have both on morals and behaviour, it departs from the analysis of society in terms of the division of labour and utilitarian mechanisms to consider how a society based on performances values human energy and emotional behaviour in a contradictory way. This book, therefore, presents and discusses classic authors, from Georg Simmel and Pitirim Sorokin to Marianne Weber and Simone De Beauvoir, through the work of Erving Goffman and ending with contemporary authors such as Michel Foucault, Anthony Giddens, Zygmunt Bauman, Ulrich Beck, and Eva Illouz. By presenting love as the social foundation of altruism, an essential element in modern conceptions of subjectivity, and a force shaping intimacy and contemporary social life, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology, particularly those interested in social theory and the sociology of emotions.

In La industria de la felicidad, William Davies walks the corridors of companies, laboratories, and government offices to describe how the notion of happiness is built, how it is measured, and how it is sold. On the way he draws an unforgiving portrait of contemporary capitalism and delineates another idea of happiness, perhaps less profitable but more hopeful.

The cultural change denominated as “the new normal” goes far beyond the adaptation to habits like physical distancing, limited person-to-person contact, teleworking, and self-isolation established with the COVID-19 pandemic. A series of significant transformations in human behavior spreads today in societies all around the world: physical intimacy decreases while virtual reality expands and alterity declines while artificial intelligence emerges, leading to structural reconfigurations of sex, relationships, gender awareness, and subjectivity. Sexuality and Eroticism in a Post-pandemic World explores this new cultural atmosphere through twelve interdisciplinary essays questioning global governmentality and challenging the biopolitics of the new normal—the administration of self-control societies so politically correct that repressed desire for otherness only finds a simulation of its satisfaction with the forced abnormality, outrageousness, and violence of mainstream porn—, going from ars erotica to alternative pornography, from online dating to gender fluidity, from LGBTQI+ artivism to sex life cultivation, and more.

This book advances new ways of thinking about emergence and impact of Itinerant Curriculum Theory (ICT). Written by authors based in Algeria, Brazil, Chile, China, Estonia, South Korea, Spain and the USA, the chapters examine the opportunities and challenges paved by ICT in the struggle to open up and decolonize curriculum policies. The contributors show how ICT can help us to pave a new way to think about and to do curriculum theory and announce ICT as a declaration of epistemological liberation, one that helps to resist Eurocentric dominance. The chapters cover topics including, ecologies of the Global South, education discourse in South Korea, China's Curriculum Reform, and the history of colonialism in the Middle East. Building on the work of Antonia Darder, Boaventura de Sousa Santos and others, this book posits that the future of the field is the struggle against curriculum epistemicides and this is ultimately a struggle for social justice. The book includes a Foreword by the leading curriculum historian William Schubert, Professor Emeritus of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.