{"product_id":"mutual-aid-the-other-law-of-the-jungle-hardback-9781509547913","title":"Mutual Aid; The Other Law of the Jungle (Hardback) 9781509547913","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMutual Aid\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Other Law of the Jungle\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePablo Servigne (Author), Gauthier Chapelle (Author), Andrew Brown (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509547913, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 26 November 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e310 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.3 x 14.5 x 2.8 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Cooperation has, over the course of evolution, been much more productive of increasing levels of complexity than competition. There is no doubt that mutual aid is omnipresent in nature. This penetrating study by Pablo Servigne and Gauthier Chapelle, which paints a portrait of this other “law of the jungle”, is more than welcome at a time when we so badly need to foster cooperation, solidarity and benevolence in order to build a better world together.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMatthieu Ricard, author of \u003ci\u003eAltruism: The Science and Psychology of Kindness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Servigne and Chappelle’s narrative is on point\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the merciless arena of life, we are all subject to the law of the jungle, to ruthless competition and the survival of the fittest – such is the myth that has given rise to a society that has become toxic for our planet and for our and future generations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut today the lines are shifting. A growing number of new movements and thinkers are challenging this skewed view of the world and reviving words such as ‘altruism’, ‘cooperation’, ‘kindness’ and ‘solidarity’. A close look at the wide spectrum of living beings reveals that, at all times and in all places, animals, plants, microorganisms and human beings have practised different forms of mutual aid. And those which survive difficult conditions best are not necessarily the strongest, but those which help each other the most.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePablo Servigne and Gauthier Chapelle explore a vast, forgotten continent of mutual aid in order to discover the mechanisms of this ‘other law of the jungle’. In so doing, they provide a more rounded view of the world of living things and give us some of the conceptual tools we need to move beyond the vicious circle of competition and self-destruction that is leading our civilization to the verge of collapse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Foreword by Alain Caillé\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. The age of mutual aid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The law of the jungle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A potentially fatal paralysis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The emergence of another law of the jungle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The construction site of the new century\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter One. The history of a forgetting\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Everywhere, all the time, and in every colour\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Among one’s peers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Between distant cousins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Between dissimilar organizations\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Our most distant ancestors, champions of mutual aid in all categories\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e All the colours of ‘symbiodiversity’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We are an inextricable bundle of interdependencies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Setting the record straight\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Why society hasn’t seen it - a story of myths\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Kropotkin, the anarchist prince swimming against the tide\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Our blinkered society\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Why science didn’t see it – a history of genes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Before the 1970s\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The life, death and rebirth of sociobiology, 1970-2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The renaissance of the 2000s\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Two. Spontaneous mutual aid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Contrary to popular belief…\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Where does Homo œconomicus live?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What emerges in a crisis situation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What emerges from stress and the unknown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e How are we to explain these automatisms?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The end of simplistic models\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A malleable automatism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Group mechanisms\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The hard core of mutual aid: reciprocity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The obligation to give back\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The roots of reciprocity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The transition to the group: extended reciprocity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Reputation (indirect reciprocity)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Rewards and punishments (enhanced reciprocity)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Very large groups: invisible reciprocity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Social norms\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Institutions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Four. The spirit of the group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A magical moment: when the group becomes one\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The sense of security\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The sense of equality\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The sense of trust\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The birth of a superorganism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Towards universal principles?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The ‘fundamentals’: putting them into practice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The principles of good governance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Mutual aid taken to the extreme\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The dissolution of the self\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Collective ecstasy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Group closure\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A tragic moment: when mutual aid collapses\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Five. Beyond the group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The big bad wolf principle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Competition with other groups\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A hostile environment\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Reaching a common goal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Can groups provide mutual aid to each other?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Overcoming competition between groups\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The same mechanisms as at the lower level\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A limit on size?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The opportunity of global disasters\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Six. Since the dawn of time\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The evolution of human mutual aid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Associating to survive\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A band of immature primates\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The evolution of mutual aid between peers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘There is strength in unity’: the power of group selection\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘Winter is coming’: the power of the hostile environment\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Other evolutionary forces\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The evolution of mutual aid between species\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Needing the other...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ... sometimes it’s mutual...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ... and eventually you can’t do without them\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Again and again the hostile environment\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e An endless source of innovation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Mutual aid calls for mutual aid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Transforming yourself in contact with others\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Taking it to the next level\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e How mutual aid changed the face of the world\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. The new face of mutual aid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Much more than just a law of the jungle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The main principles of mutual aid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Towards a new vision of mutual aid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. For which world?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Are we going to kill each other?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Towards another mythology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Beyond humankind\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Appendix. On the ‘new sociobiology’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e An earthquake in the land of sociobiology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The secret had to lie in the genes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The slow betrayal of the founding father\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The power of one man\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The various evolutionary forces behind mutual aid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The origins of sociobiology: kinship selection and reciprocal altruism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The discovery of other paths: indirect reciprocity and spatial selection\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Towards a more open and complex sociobiology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: The environment [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on The environment\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22The%20environment%20%5BRN%5D%22\"\u003eRN\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52441808863512,"sku":"9781509547913","price":46.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509547913.jpg?v=1785026387","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/mutual-aid-the-other-law-of-the-jungle-hardback-9781509547913","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}