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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.
In his now classic Voices of Collective Remembering, James V.
Wertsch (2002) examines the extent to which certain narrative
themes are embedded in the way the collective past is understood
and national communities are imagined. In this work, Wertsch coined
the term schematic narrative templates to refer to basic plots,
such as the triumph over alien forces or quest for freedom, that
are recurrently used, setting a national theme for the past,
present and future. Whereas specific narratives are about
particular events, dates, settings and actors, schematic narrative
templates refer to more abstract structures, grounded in the same
basic plot, from which multiple specific accounts of the past can
be generated. As dominant and naturalised narrative structures,
schematic narrative templates are typically used without being
noticed, and are thus extremely conservative, impervious to
evidence and resistant to change. The concept of schematic
narrative templates is much needed today, especially considering
the rise of nationalism and extreme-right populism, political
movements that tend to tap into national narratives naturalised and
accepted by large swathes of society. The present volume comprises
empirical and theoretical contributions to the concept of schematic
narrative templates by scholars of different disciplines
(Historiography, Psychology, Education and Political Science) and
from the vantage point of different cultural and social practices
of remembering (viz., school history teaching, political
discourses, rituals, museums, the use of images, maps, etc.) in
different countries. The volume's main goal is to provide a
transdisciplinary debate around the concept of schematic narrative
templates, focusing on how narratives change as well as perpetuate
at times when nationalist discourses seem to be on the rise. This
book will be relevant to anyone interested in history, history
teaching, nationalism, collective memory and the wider social
debate on how to critically reflect on the past.
In his now classic Voices of Collective Remembering, James V.
Wertsch (2002) examines the extent to which certain narrative
themes are embedded in the way the collective past is understood
and national communities are imagined. In this work, Wertsch coined
the term schematic narrative templates to refer to basic plots,
such as the triumph over alien forces or quest for freedom, that
are recurrently used, setting a national theme for the past,
present and future. Whereas specific narratives are about
particular events, dates, settings and actors, schematic narrative
templates refer to more abstract structures, grounded in the same
basic plot, from which multiple specific accounts of the past can
be generated. As dominant and naturalised narrative structures,
schematic narrative templates are typically used without being
noticed, and are thus extremely conservative, impervious to
evidence and resistant to change. The concept of schematic
narrative templates is much needed today, especially considering
the rise of nationalism and extreme-right populism, political
movements that tend to tap into national narratives naturalised and
accepted by large swathes of society. The present volume comprises
empirical and theoretical contributions to the concept of schematic
narrative templates by scholars of different disciplines
(Historiography, Psychology, Education and Political Science) and
from the vantage point of different cultural and social practices
of remembering (viz., school history teaching, political
discourses, rituals, museums, the use of images, maps, etc.) in
different countries. The volume's main goal is to provide a
transdisciplinary debate around the concept of schematic narrative
templates, focusing on how narratives change as well as perpetuate
at times when nationalist discourses seem to be on the rise. This
book will be relevant to anyone interested in history, history
teaching, nationalism, collective memory and the wider social
debate on how to critically reflect on the past.
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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