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The Political Psychology of Social Unrest in Latin America is a unique collection of research and writings by Latin American scholars. It explores the social, psychological, and political factors of the recent turmoil in Latin American countries.
List of contents
1. The Ideological Underpinnings of Distributive Unfairness Evaluations: Evidence from Latin America Between 1997 and 2020 2. Political Cynicism and its relationship with the Approval of Institutions in a context of high salience of corruption in Peru 3. Rethinking the liaisons between social mobilization and political representation in the21st century: a conceptual proposal 4. Trends of Right-Wing Authoritarianism in Brazil before and after the election of Bolsonaro 5. The political participation of Latin American school-age students: resources, political attitudes, and civic learning opportunities 6. Collective action in Chile prior and after the 2019's social outbreak: the central role of socio-psychological factors in promoting social change 7. Social beliefs and emotional orientations about social protest in ordinary citizens in six cities of Colombia 8. Predictors of individual participation in social protest actions in Ecuador in the period 2018-2021 9. Social Mobilization in Bolivia: Modeling 21f-Protest Motives and Satisfaction With Conflict Results 10. Collective effervescence and positive emotions in the 8M march and its effects on solidarity, efficacy and feminist identity 11. Social unrest in contemporary Ecuador: lessons for psychologists 12. Summary and Conclusions - Vanessa Smith-Castro, David Sirlopú & Huseyin Cakal
About the author
Hüseyin Çakal is Assistant Professor in Social Psychology at Keele University, UK, where he runs the Intergroup Relations and Political Psychology (Inter-Pol) Lab.
David Sirlopú is Associate Professor at Universidad San Sebastián, Concepción, Chile. His academic interests are intergroup relations, acculturation, respect and tolerance, and subjective well-being.
Vanessa Smith-Castro earned her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Philipps-Universität Marburg (Germany). She is full professor at the Institute for Psychological Research of the University of Costa Rica.
Summary
The Political Psychology of Social Unrest in Latin America is a unique collection of research and writings by Latin American scholars. It explores the social, psychological, and political factors of the recent turmoil in Latin American countries.
