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"This ground-breaking collection recalibrates the study of political psychology by providing a detailed and much needed analysis of the discipline's most important and hotly contested issues. Advancing our understanding of the psychological mechanisms that drive political phenomena, this study showcases a range of approaches in the study of these phenomena in Europe and the world and underscores the valuable contribution political psychology has made in generating answers to timely research questions. Individual chapters from the world's top experts in the field explores the ways in which political psychology impacts on issues as diverse as migration, conflict and violence as well as electoral politics while also situating the discipline within the realm of political decision-making and policy on important debates relating to foreign policy and relations, political participation and terrorism amongst a variety of other issues. Furthermore, the collection offers analytical illustrations of Social Identity Theory, psychoanalytic approaches, Dialogical Self Theory, Social Representations Theory and Self-Categorisation Theory, allowing for an in-depth engagement across theoretical contributions to the field. Using theoretical and methodological approaches in conjunction with empirical evidence, this Handbook maps the diverse field of political psychology in its entirety and explores its future direction. The resulting volume is a KEY addition to the libraries of all those who study or harbour an interestin political psychology. "--
List of contents
PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Introduction: Origins, Developments and Current Trends; Tereza Capelos, Henk Dekker, Catarina Kinnvall and Paul Nesbitt-Larking PART II: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES 2. Social Representations and the Politics of Participation; Caroline Howarth, Eleni Andreouli and Shose Kessi 3. Social Identity Theory and Self-Categorisation Theory; Denis Sindic and Susan Condor 4. Psychoanalysis as Political Political Psychology; Stephen Frosh 5. Methodological Approaches in Political Psychology: Discourse and Narrative; Phillip L. Hammack and Andrew Pilecki 6. Dialogical Approaches to Psychology and Ethics; Sarah Scuzzarello 7. Experiments: Insights and Power in the Study of Causality; Tereza Capelos PART III: THEMES 8. Lessons from the Postcolony: Frantx Fanon, Psychoanalysis and a Psychology of Political Critique; Ross Truscott and Derek Hook 9. Conflict Analysis and International Relations; Karin Aggestam 10. 'Do the Terrorists have Goatee Beards?': Contemporary Understandings of Terrorisms and the Terrorist; James McAuley 11. Gender, Race and Ethnic Relations; Sebastian E. Bartos and Peter Hegarty 12. Voting and Not Voting: The Principal Explanations; Henk Dekker PART IV: HOT ISSUES 13. Political Emotions; Nicolas Demertzis 14. Group-Focused Enmity: Prevalence, Correlations and Causes of Prejudices in Europe; Beate Küpper and Andreas Zick 15. Political Psychology of European Integration; Ian Manners 16. Migration and Multiculturalism; Paul Nesbitt-Larking 17. Political and Civic Participation among Ethnic Majority and Minority Youth; Dimitra Pachi, Theopisti Chrysanthaki and Martyn Barrett 18. Fear, Insecurity and the (Re) Emergence of the Far Right in Europe; Catarina Kinnvall 19. A Political Psychology of Conflict: The Case of Northern Ireland; Neil Ferguson, Orla Muldoon and Shelley McKeown 20. Narrating Moments of Political Change; Molly Andrews 21. The Culture of Conflict and its Routinisation; Daniel Bar-Tal, Guy Abutul Selinger and AmiramRaviv 22. Narrative Constructions of Conflict and Coexistence: The Case of Bosnia-Hezegovina; Johanna Mannergren Selimovic 23. Political Socialisation and Social Movements: Escaping the Political Past? Igor Petrovi?, JAcquelien van Stekelenberg and Bert Klandermans PART V: CONCLUSION 24. Ideology, Society and the State: Global Political Psychology in Retrospect; Paul Nesbitt-Larking
About the author
Karin Aggestam, Lund University, Sweden Eleni Andreouli, Open University, UK Molly Andrews, University of East London, UK Martyn Barrett, University of Surrey, UK Daniel Bar-Tal, Tel Aviv University, Israel Sebastian E. Barto?, University of Surrey, UK Theopisti Chrysanthaki, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, UK Susan Condor, Loughborough University, UK Nicolas Demertzis, Athens University, Greece and Greek National Centre for Social Research (EKKE) Neil Ferguson, Liverpool Hope University, UK Stephen Frosh, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK Phillip L. Hammack, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Peter Hegarty, University of Surrey, UK Derek Hook, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, London School of Economics, UK and University of Pretoria, South Africa Caroline Howarth, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Shose Kessi, University of Cape Town, South Africa Bert Klandermans, VU-University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Beate Küpper, University of Applied Science Niederrhein, Germany Ian Manners, University of Copenhagen, Denmark James W. McAuley, University of Huddersfield, UK Shelley McKeown, Leiden University College, the Hague, the Netherlands Orla Muldoon, University of Limerick, Ireland Dimitra Pachi, University of BPP, UK Igor Petrovi?, VU-University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Andrew Pilecki, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Amiram Raviv, Or Yehuda, Israel, Sarah Scuzzarello, City University London, UK Johanna Mannergren Selimovic, Swedish Institute of International Affairs Denis Sindic, University of Lisbon, Portugal Jacquelien van Stekelenburg, VU-University Amsterdam, the Netherlands Ross Truscott, University of Fort Hare in East London, South Africa Andreas Zick, Bielefeld University, Germany
