The new book by Dr Nippin Anand and Dr Rob Long has been released called 51 Stories in Culture, To Live and To Be. You can purchase the ebook here: https://www.humandymensions.com/product/51-stories-in-culture/
This is book fourteen in the series on the Social Psychology of Risk. You can download past versions for free here: https://www.humandymensions.com/shop/
We have now released a sample of the first 38 pages of 51 Stories in Culture that provides and overview and feel of the book. You can download the sample here: https://www.humandymensions.com/product/51-stories-in-culture-free-sample/
This download gives an overview of the book, shows the list of contents, figures, Introduction and opening chapter.
Printed Version Registration of Interest
We have had a number of requests to release a printed version and whilst this is possible it would be expensive, perhaps $29.95 plus postage, perhaps a total of $50.
If a printed version of the book is of interest to you and if we get enough requests, we will get some copies printed. Please register your interest at: admin@humandymensions.com
Extract:
This is a book about culture and the nature of risk. Its foundational premise is that culture cannot be known through books or propositions but is best known through the phenomenon of experience and felt knowing. So, in a way, the book is situated in a paradox. But paradox need not be a problem rather a typical characteristic of living and being in culture.
Culture is a Wicked Problem. Whilst we need to talk about it, study it and experience it, it has no limit and, like the Semiosphere, Mythosphere, Atmosphere and the Universe, it has no beginning or end. Yet, in order to live in it, we need to try and grasp what we can about the lived life or being in culture. After all, differences in culture also pose the greatest threat to understanding, community and
Socialitie. Unless we understand cultures other than our own, we will never learn to live in harmony and being with others.
This book uses the semiotic of the Culture Cloud to explore as many dimensions of culture as possible within the confines of a book. The Culture Cloud is a semiotic, metaphor and framework to help tackle everything from worldviews, paradigms and being, to living with risk, human fallibility and faith. The focus of the book is also on the nature of risk and, the risk and safety industry including, it’s culture of safety. Whilst the safety industry argues about itself and even denies such a thing as ‘safety
culture’ exists, this is mostly due to one of its principle cultural characteristics, ignorance.
Most often the safety industry comments on culture from a source of no expertise in culture. We know this by the many silences and omissions in any discussion about culture in the sector. For example, all of the following are never discussed in books on safety culture: myth, ritual, faith, religion, gesture, semiotics, linguistics, affordance, ethics, para-linguistics, memes, personhood, politics and
power. In this book none of these are off limits. This enables a new look at culture through the lens of the Social Psychology of Risk (SPoR) worldview that poses a new way of engaging in culture and risk.
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