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Everyday Evil: Why Our World Is the Way It Is

by Monique Layton

Published by: Tidewater Press

Imprint: Tidewater Press

Sales Date: 2020-02-20

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CA$20.00

Published: February 2020

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Imprint: Tidewater Press

Dimensions: 5.50 x 8.50

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ISBN: 9781775165965

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Finalist for the 2021 Montaigne Medal, Eric Hoffer Awards

Instead of the epic, alien force of our imagination, anthropologist Monique Layton argues that evil is intrinsic to our humanity, constantly evolving with modern notions of morality.

Much of the world's suffering, she argues, can be traced back to the individual actions of ordinary people trying — and failing — to maintain a static social order.

Drawing on anthropology, history, philosophy and popular culture, Layton provides a new lens through which to view contemporary issues, establishing connections between such disparate phenomena as:

medieval law enforcement and the Trump Baby balloon,
the Salem witch trials and female genital mutilation,
body-snatching and surrogacy,
slavery and fast fashion.

Monique Layton is the former Associate Director of the Centre for Distance Education (Criminology Programs) at Simon Fraser University and resides in Vancouver. She was raised in North Africa and educated in France and Britain. After moving to Canada, she obtained degrees in comparative literature (MA) and cultural anthropology (PhD).

Preface

Chapter 1: On Human Nature

Good and Evil

Order and Dissonance

Intent and Consequence

Conscience and Redemption

Free Will and Responsibility

Crime and Punishment

Chapter 2: Us and Them

Hierarchies

Social Barriers

Legal Barriers

Physical Barriers

Chapter 3: Beyond the White Man’s Burden

Slavery

Colonialism

Globalization

Chapter 4: Vox Populi

Protest

Charivari

Bullying

Curses

Hue and Cry

Chapter 5: A Body’s Worth

Cannibalism

Prostitution

Science

Surrogacy

Chapter 6: The Hysterical Female

Witchcraft

Adultery

Abortion

Female Genital Mutilation

Chapter 7: Testosterone and Togetherness

Seafarers

Hooligans

Youth Gangs

Chapter 8: The Killing Plague

Democide and Genocide

Massacres

Shell Shock

Chapter 9: Gaia Anthropocene

The Dominion of Man

The Petroleum Age

The Gaia Hypothesis

Chapter 10: Reflections on Good and Evil

The World Asunder

Our Uncommon Reality

The Human Condition

Tomorrow’s Leaders

Acknowledgements

Index

Bibliography

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