Cultural psychology of intervention in the globalized world

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 p...

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Other Authors Schliewe, Sanna (Editor), Chaudhary, Nandita, 1957- (Editor), Marsico, Giuseppina (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited : IAP - Information Age Publishing, inc., [2018]
SeriesAdvances in cultural psychology.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806607822
DOI10.1108/978-1-64113-287-9
Physical Description1 online resource (xxiv, 324 pages)

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Table of 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.