The Anthropocene has become a field of studies in which the influence of human activity on the Earth System and nature is both the main threat and the potential solution. Social Representations Theory has been evolving since the 1960s.It links knowledge and practice in everyday life and is an effective way to deal with systemic crises based on common sense. This book assembles key contributions by Latin American scholars working with social representations in the social sciences that are of conceptual relevance to the study of the Anthropocene and that investigate the societal consequences of complex interrelations between common sense and topics of global relevance, such asthe contradictions of sustainable development, the construction of risks beyond risk-perception, health, negotiation and governance in the field of education, gender equality, the usefulness of longitudinal and systemic ethnography and case studies, and agency and the link between inequality, crises and risk society in the context of COVID-19, presenting theoretical and methodological innovations fromSpanish, Portuguese and Frenchresearchthat have rarely been available in English. * This is the first book to address the relevance of Social Representations Theory for the Anthropocene as a societal era* It presents the multidisciplinary scope of Social Representations* This book covers emerging research contributions in Social Representations Theory from Latin America* This book presents innovative research and commentaries by established researchers in the field* This multidisciplinary book should be in the libraries of many disciplines in the social sciences and humanities

En el verano de 2008, un grupo de investigadores sobre las problematicas relativas a la educacion se reunio en un Seminario Internacional Argentina-Brasil, cuyo tema expresaba una inquietud y una osadia a la vez: la construccion de una psicologia social de la educacion, delimitando un nuevo campo de conocimientos. Como fruto de aquel encuentro, en este libro los aportes realizados desde diferentes marcos teoricos abordan un tema que emerge del entrecruzamiento de saberes, y llevan a la constitucion de una nueva subdisciplina. Algunas de las contribuciones toman la perspectiva de la Teoria de las Representaciones Sociales, la vision sociohistorica, los terminos de la psicologia genetica, o la consideracion de la psicogenesis de Wallon; otras ponen el eje en los procesos identitarios, la memoria y la biografia, y en la retorica. Esta diversidad de enfoques contribuye a la riqueza del proceso de construccion de un objeto de conocimiento. Los ocho capitulos de este volumen fueron elaborados por investigadores argentinos y brasilenos vinculados con la psicologia y la educacion, desde diferentes abordajes teoricos y metodologicos.