Cultural psychology of intervention in the globalized world / edited by Sanna Schliewe, Nandita Chaudhary, Giuseppina Marsico.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schliewe, Sanna, editor.

Chaudhary, Nandita, 1957- editor.

Marsico, Giuseppina, editor.

Series:

Advances in cultural psychology.

Advances in cultural psychology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture--Psychological aspects.

Culture.

Social psychology.

International relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 349 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Charlotte, NC : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2018]

Summary:

The interventions have ranged between benevolent exchanges to powerful influences as well as military domination. Although interpersonal and group influence has been an important domain of study in Social Psychology, we propose to take a fresh look at these phenomena from the specific orientations provided by the discipline of Cultural Psychology.In this perspective, meaning making processes becomes a key for understanding the everyday experiences of the receivers and agents of intervention.In this volume, we see how attending to meaning-making processes becomes crucial when researching or intervening within cultural encounters and global everyday life.It is through listening to the foreign other, to attend to their immediate experiences, as well as exploring how meaning may be mediated and co-constructed by them in everyday life through organizational structures, informal peer network, traditional rituals or symbols, that collaboration can be created and sustained.

Contents:

Series editor's preface: Sincere desires for improvements in the globalizing world / Jaan Valsiner. Editors' Introduction: Weaving Culture Plot: Intervention at the Intersection of Borders and Community in a Changing World / Sanna Schliewe, Giuseppina Marsico, and Nandita Chaudhary

Part I. Principles of intervention

Chapter 1. Therapy as anthropology / Jacob Mosgaard

Chapter 2. The fuel and the engine: A general semio-cultural psychological framework for social intervention / Viviana Fini and Sergio Salvatore

Part II. Community interventions

in Europe and Latin America

Chapter 3. Homes as intervention forms / Amrei C. Joerchel and Stephan Dietrich

Chapter 4. Psychosocial interventions in the context of forced migration: Empowerment and social action / Lenssa Mohammed

Chapter 5. A culture of peace: Social action learning and peace-building in Mexico through the educational system / Elena de Casas and Peter Berliner

Chapter 6. Amerindian support network / Melina Bertholdo and Danilo Guimarês

Chapter 7. The reconstruction of a new system of needs after a post-war emergency / Emiliana Mangone

Part III. Global mobile agents as receivers of intervention

Chapter 8. Global health intervention from global north to south: (academic) preparation of students / Rashmi Singla and Louise Mubanda Rasmussen

Chapter 9. Industrial citizenship and international mobility: Employer's interventions into the state of welfare of danish and Finnish 'expats' in India / Nicol Foulkes Savinetti

Chapter 10. Relocation services for families in geographical itinerancy: Beyond the cultural problem / Db̌orah Levitan, Tania Zittoun, and Flavia Cangiani

Part IV. The everyday life of global mobile agents

Chapter 11. The mobile life-world map: A dialogical tool for understanding expatriates / Sanna Schliewe

Chapter 12. Strangers in foreign lands: Entering the missionary field / Zachary Beckstead

Chapter 13. Identity negotiation across cultures: A case study of international women aid workers / Alice Gritti

Chapter 14. Who is an 'expatriate'? Euro-american identities, race, and integration in postcolonial India / Shalini Grover

Chapter 15. Here to stay: How relationships, results, and grit characterize exemplary international aid workers / R. Scott Breslin. Biographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-324).

Print version record.

ISBN:

1-64113-287-6