Resignifying the World Across and Beyond Categories / edited by Dany Boulanger, Virginia Dazzani, Nandita Chaudhary.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boulanger, Dany.

Series:

SpringerBriefs in Psychology and Cultural Developmental Science, 2626-675X

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology.

Social psychology.

Behavioral Sciences and Psychology.

Social Psychology.

Cultural Psychology.

Local Subjects:

Behavioral Sciences and Psychology.

Social Psychology.

Cultural Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (178 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2025.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2025.

Summary:

This book builds on the activities realized during the VI International Seminar of Cultural Psychology realized in May 2023 in Salvador de Bahia (Brazil), particularly a workshop forming a dialogical and open space of theoretical and methodological innovations. More specifically, researchers addressed meaning making processes that enable re-signifying reality across categories—dynamically shifting from one domain to another—and beyond them—developing synthesis and forming new ways of understanding and approaching cultural phenomenon. In this perspective the cultural processes that are discussed concern practical encounters –with people from different ages in different settings, particularly (but not exclusively) in the context of intervention— and pragmatic issues (how to approach people). In a neoliberal society in which language is used in its literal sense over its virtual meaning, categories tend to be reinforced in every iteration and potentially lead to segregation and exclusion as they are rendered invisible through interdiction of speaking (taboo) or framing social encounters with monological logic. In this book, the authors shed new light on categorization by re-signifying it in a dynamic fashion in relation to a variety of domains (gender, mental health, movement, aesthetics, poverty, are some examples). This book furnishes theoretical, methodological and practical tools that enable re-thinking about the process of recategorization. It has the potential to inspire the reframing of theory, research, as well as practices in psychology and other disciplines.

Contents:

Introduction Re-signifying categories: a universal process amidst phenomena

Meaning Making Across Thought and Affectivity

The meaning of signs - if that makes any sense

Beyond the Words Art as a Theoretical and Methodological Tool in Psychological Research

Cultural Dynamics of Affection a semiotic approach of the relation between emotions and culture

A problematization of anxiety cases from the perspective of Cultural Semiotic Psychology

From gender to agender crossing borders in the infinite process of becoming

Resistance and Expressiveness the experience of transgender people across social borders

A cultural psychology gaze at the inclusion process in the school context

The trajectory of the artist in a context of poverty and community: a reflection from cultural psychology

The Experience and Challenges of Conducting Collaborative International Research

Conclusion Changing the epistemic status of a category.

Other Format:

Print version: Boulanger, Dany Resignifying the World Across and Beyond Categories

ISBN:

9783032012944

OCLC:

1548426835