Passivity generation human rights and everyday morality studies in the psychosocial by dr irene bruna seu 30 oct 2013 hardcover books amazonca. The book applies a unique mix of psychosocial methods to understand the complexity of emotional cognitive and ideological responses to human rights violations and examines the banal quality of the everyday vocabularies that people use to make sense of human rights and their violations and justify not intervening in passivity generation irene bruna seu offers a vivid and compassionate . Passivity generation addresses these important questions and reports on a series of studies exploring what happens to the knowledge related to human rights violations when it reaches the public the book applies a unique mix of psychosocial methods to understand the complexity of emotional cognitive and ideological responses to human rights violations and examines the banal quality of the . In passivity generation irene bruna seu offers a vivid and compassionate account of how past experiences of trauma and suffering affect individual unresponsiveness and explores the psychodynamics of passivity and its underpinning defence mechanisms