Description
Book SynopsisThe one-on-one bullying that dominates the American conversation, this timely book suggests, is actually part of a larger problem - a natural outcome of the bullying nature of American institutions. And as long as the United States embraces militarism and aggressive capitalism, systemic bullying and all its impacts will persist as a major crisis.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Rethinking Bullying: From the Individual to the Institution
- 2. Capital Bullying: Capitalism, Power, and Economic Bullying
- 3. Environmental Bullying: Bullying Animals and Bludgeoning Nature
- 4. Militarism as Bullying: The Superpower and the Schoolyard Bully
- 5. The Land of the Slave and the Home of the Bully: Race and Militarized Bullying
- 6. Marching to the Bully: How the Military Trains Bullies, Both Inside and Outside the Services
- 7. Schooling for Bullies: Education and Bullying
- 8. The Heartless World: All in the Family
- 9. The Antibullying Movement: The Cultural Contradictions of the Bully Nation
- Epilogue: Are There Solutions? New Ways to Think about Reducing Bullying
- Appendix: Our God, Our Bully: Israel, Jihad, and the Middle East-Ancient and Modern
- Notes
- Index
