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Cultural Psychology in Communities : Tensions and Transformations, Hardback Book

Cultural Psychology in Communities : Tensions and Transformations Hardback

Edited by Floor van Alphen, Susanne Normann

Part of the Annals of Cultural Psychology series

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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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