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Cultural Psychology in Communities - Tensions and Transformations (Paperback)
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Cultural Psychology in Communities - Tensions and Transformations (Paperback)
Series: Annals of Cultural Psychology
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This volume aims at further articulating and developing the
cultural psychological interest in community. It focuses on the
processes through which individuals constitute communities and the
processes that restrain or enable moving forward with others. This
interest is necessary especially now that the world is on the move.
Economic crises, political crises and ecological crises have led to
reinforced migration patterns, a rise in authoritarianism and
xenophobia, and have become a threat to the survival of the world
as we know it, particularly to minorities and indigenous
communities. At the same time, we are witnessing the birth of new
networks, dialogues and actions, generated by people within,
between and among communities. Therefore, this volume collects
interdisciplinary theoretical, empirical and applied contributions
enabling engagement with communities in cultural psychology. This
involves both reflections on meaning-making processes and
projections on how they feed into social transformation, in
exchange with community psychology, anthropology and sociology.
People vitally depend on community to effectively negotiate or
resist in complex intercultural or intergroup settings. In the wake
of human rights violations or to prevent further damage to the
environment a community is needed to undertake action. From
feminist movements and disability activism to the otherwise
marginalized: how do people constitute communities? How do they
resist as a community? How can cultural psychology contribute not
only to understand meaning-making processes, but also connect them
to processes of social transformation? Migration, moving through
and connecting to different communities can affect meaning making
in significant ways. People consider themselves as members of one
or another community, but they also increasingly enter into new
settings of social practice with new means for action. How might
creative meaning-making build bridges between communities? How
might new community arise in between or with others? How can
cultural psychology deal with intercultural processes without
reifying different cultures? These are the central questions that
the, mostly emerging, scholars from many corners of the world
address in this book. Their research addresses different
institutional settings that are resisted and transformed from
within, in dialogue with others. From social work, NGOs and
municipal activity to university talent mobility and art projects
for youth. Other settings are newly inhabited, from the public
square and the social media to a foreign city and neighborhood
church. Thus, more communities appear on the map of cultural
psychology.
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