{"product_id":"mutual-aid-the-other-law-of-the-jungle-paperback-softback-9781509547920","title":"Mutual Aid; The Other Law of the Jungle (Paperback \/ softback) 9781509547920","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\"\u003e9781509547920, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 26 November 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e310 pages\u003cbr\u003e20.8 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.374 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‘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\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\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\u003eForeword by Alain Caillé\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. The age of mutual aid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe law of the jungle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA potentially fatal paralysis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe emergence of another law of the jungle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe construction site of the new century\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter One. The history of a forgetting\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEverywhere, all the time, and in every colour\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmong one’s peers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBetween distant cousins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBetween dissimilar organizations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur most distant ancestors, champions of mutual aid in all categories\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll the colours of ‘symbiodiversity’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe are an inextricable bundle of interdependencies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSetting the record straight\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy society hasn’t seen it - a story of myths\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKropotkin, the anarchist prince swimming against the tide\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur blinkered society\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy science didn’t see it – a history of genes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBefore the 1970s\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe life, death and rebirth of sociobiology, 1970-2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe renaissance of the 2000s\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Two. Spontaneous mutual aid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContrary to popular belief…\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhere does Homo œconomicus live?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat emerges in a crisis situation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat emerges from stress and the unknown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow are we to explain these automatisms?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe end of simplistic models\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA malleable automatism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Group mechanisms\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe hard core of mutual aid: reciprocity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe obligation to give back\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe roots of reciprocity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe transition to the group: extended reciprocity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReputation (indirect reciprocity)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRewards and punishments (enhanced reciprocity)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVery large groups: invisible reciprocity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSocial norms\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInstitutions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Four. The spirit of the group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA magical moment: when the group becomes one\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe sense of security\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe sense of equality\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe sense of trust\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe birth of a superorganism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTowards universal principles?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe ‘fundamentals’: putting them into practice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe principles of good governance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMutual aid taken to the extreme\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe dissolution of the self\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCollective ecstasy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGroup closure\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA tragic moment: when mutual aid collapses\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Five. Beyond the group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe big bad wolf principle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCompetition with other groups\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA hostile environment\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReaching a common goal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCan groups provide mutual aid to each other?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOvercoming competition between groups\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe same mechanisms as at the lower level\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA limit on size?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe opportunity of global disasters\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Six. Since the dawn of time\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe evolution of human mutual aid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAssociating to survive\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA band of immature primates\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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\u003eOther evolutionary forces\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe evolution of mutual aid between species\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNeeding 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\u003eAgain and again the hostile environment\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn endless source of innovation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMutual aid calls for mutual aid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTransforming yourself in contact with others\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaking it to the next level\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow mutual aid changed the face of the world\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion. The new face of mutual aid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMuch more than just a law of the jungle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe main principles of mutual aid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTowards a new vision of mutual aid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue. For which world?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAre we going to kill each other?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTowards another mythology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeyond humankind\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendix. On the ‘new sociobiology’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn earthquake in the land of sociobiology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe secret had to lie in the genes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe slow betrayal of the founding father\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe power of one man\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe various evolutionary forces behind mutual aid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe origins of sociobiology: kinship selection and reciprocal altruism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe discovery of other paths: indirect reciprocity and spatial selection\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTowards a more open and complex sociobiology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes\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":52474969850136,"sku":"9781509547920","price":17.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509547920.jpg?v=1785802213","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/mutual-aid-the-other-law-of-the-jungle-paperback-softback-9781509547920","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}