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Drawing on case studies of revolutions and uprisings from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century across the world, this book applies a social psychological approach to analyze the conditions that allow these events to emerge, the trajectories they take, and how they are represented to the public.
List of contents
1. Towards a psychology of revolution Brady Wagoner, Fathali M. Moghaddam and Jaan Valsiner; Part I. Roots of Revolution: 2. The conservative crowd? How participation in collective events transforms participants' understandings of collective action John Drury and Stephen Reicher; 3. Economic inequality and the rise of civic discontent: deprivation and remembering in an Irish case study Séamus A. Power; 4. The globalization-revolution paradox: no revolution in capitalist democracies Fathali M. Moghaddam; 5. From the age of the crowd to the global age Brady Wagoner; Part II. Evolution and Involution in Social Transformations: 6. Social engineering and its discontents: the case of the Russian Revolution Sierra Campbell and Fathali M. Moghaddam; 7. Political plasticity and revolution: the case of Iran Fathali M. Moghaddam; 8. The Velvet Revolution of land and minds Tania Zittoun; 9. Wordworth's insurgency: living the French Revolution Duncan Wu; 10. Between the guillotine and the Velvet Revolution: what is at stake? Jaan Valsiner; Part III. Representations of and in Revolution: 11. Image politics of the Arab Uprisings Sarah H. Awad and Brady Wagoner; 12. Constructing cultural pathology: the December 2008 upheaval in the Greek press Nikos Bozatzis and Christina Teliou; 13. Restoring cultural identity clarity in times of revolution: the role of historical narratives Roxane de la Sablonnière, Donald M. Taylor and Mathieu Caron-Diotte; 14. The shark and the octopus: two revolutionary styles Fathali M. Moghaddam.
About the author
Brady Wagoner is Professor of Psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark, and an associate editor for the journals Culture & Psychology and Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology.Fathalo M. Moghaddam is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. He is the editor-in-chief of Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology.Jaan Valsiner is Niels Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is the founding editor (1995) of Culture & Psychology and editor-in-chief (from 2007) of Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Sciences.
Summary
Drawing on case studies of revolutions and uprisings from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century across the world, this book applies a social psychological approach to analyze the conditions that allow these events to emerge, the trajectories they take, and how they are represented to the public.
