Multicentric identities in a globalizing world

The volume represents the continuing of a the Yearbook of Idiographic Science project, born in 2009 and developed through an annual series of volumes collecting contributes aimed at developing the integration of idiographic and nomothetic approaches in psychology and more in general social science.T...

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Other Authors Salvatore, Sergio (Editor), Gennaro, Alessandro (Editor), Valsiner, Jaan (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : IAP, Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2014.
SeriesYIS (Series)
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806612314
DOI10.1108/978-1-62396-719-2
Physical Description1 online resource (xx, 384 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Self-regulation by signs: A social semiotic approach to identity / Mariann Märtsin
  • Section I. Pluralism of personal anchorages
  • Chapter 1. Gender identity in intersex adults: The interplay of voices and silences / Ana Karina Canguçú-Campinho, Ana Cecília de Sousa Bastos, and Isabel Maria Sampaio Oliveira Lima
  • Chapter 2. Successive ruptures in maternal identity: The recurrent abortion and the implications for the self / Vívian Volkmer Pontes
  • Chapter 3. Health professionals die too: How an anesthesiologist looks at death in palliative care practice / Olga V. Lehmann and Emanuela Saita
  • Section I commentary: Modern qualitative approach to psychology: Art or science?v aaro toomela
  • Section II. Identity in movement through context
  • Chapter 4. Identity and organizations: Articulations from social networks studies / Antonio Virgílio Bittencourt Bastos, Ana Clara de Sousa Bastos, and Ingrid Rapold
  • Chapter 5. Through the professional role to the world of new meanings / Katrin Kullasepp
  • Chapter 6. Family business dynamics: Generational change as identity transition / Ruggero Ruggieri and Nadia Pecoraro
  • Chapter 7. Being online: An idiographic approach to identity in virtual environments / Beatrice Ligorio, Feldia Loperfido, and Marianna Iodice
  • Section ii commentary: The identity as a system of translation of the boundary between subject and context / Maria Francesca Freda and Raffaele de Luca Picione
  • Section III. Generalized multiplicity
  • Chapter 8. Sustaining identity change through the use of symbolic resources: The case of an immigrant living in greece / Irini Kadianaki
  • Chapter 9. Negotiating identities in immigrant families: Indian muslim youth in the United States of america / Sujata Sriram
  • Chapter 10. Representations and social belonging: An idiographic approach to community and identity / Gordon Sammut, Mohammad Sartawi, Marco Giannini, and Chiara Labate
  • Chapter 11. Performing ethics at identity crossroads / Alberto Rosa and Fernanda González
  • Chapter 12. Territorial identity and immigration: Some empirical evidence on how they are related in rome / Fabio Pollice, Francesca Spagnuolo, and Giulia Urso
  • Chapter 13. Dynamics of identity re-definitions among refugees / Hala W. Mahmoud
  • Section iii commentary: Being on the move: How borders help to re-think identity / Giuseppina Marsico
  • About the contributors.