A volume in Advances in Cultural Psychology
Series Editor: Jaan Valsiner, Clark University
This book is perhaps the first systematic treatment of politics from the perspective of cultural
psychology. Politics is a complex that psychology usually fails to understand- as it assumes a
position in society that attempts to be free of politics itself. Politics is associated both with an
everyday practice, and the dynamics of globalization; with the way group conflicts, ideologies,
social representations and identities, are lived and co-constructed by social actors. The authors of
the book address these issues through their research grounded in different parts of the world, on
democracy and political order, the social representation of power, gender studies, the use of metaphors
and symbolic power in political discourse, social identities and methodological questions.
The book will be used by social and political psychologists but is also of interest to the other
social sciences: political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, educationalists, and it is at a
level where sophisticated lay public would be able to appreciate its coverage. Its use in upperlevel
college teaching is possible, and expected at graduate/postgraduate levels.
