Pub Date : 2021-07-22DOI: 10.4324/9781003145417-1-1
M. Dege, Irene Strasser
A central task to achieve a rethinking of psychology in the 21st century is to closely examine how psychological theories are entangled with political interests, how forms of psychologization serve particular groups, and how, conversely, psychology can unfold emancipatory power. This trope of thinking runs through all the contributions in this book;it seems clearer today than ever that theories in the social sciences cannot be discussed without also engaging with their political embeddedness. It appears that psychology has, since its inception as a discipline, always been on the margins and in between opposing interests. Taken together, this volume speaks to the epistemic shifts psychology currently undergoes. Stemming from a crisis-driven reconfiguration of the social world, the authors inquire about and envision new theoretical pathways for psychology to take in order to be more just, more apt, and inclusive beyond the traditional scope of the discipline. Specific crises such as mass unemployment, dismantling of democratic institutions, globalization, and climate change tend to overwhelm people in their meaning-making efforts. Concerning the COVID-19 pandemic, the authors argue that we can only show responsibility for the future by realizing inevitable and irreparable change and loss to how we lived our lives in the past. Bearing this examination of lessons we can learn from past developments in our discipline and theoretical advances needed to move beyond the current state in mind, Part II of this volume inquires about the role of crises from a relational point of view. Can crises function as cathartic moments and produce new and improved ways of understanding the individual in relation to the social world? Based on relational analyses, the final part of the book emphasizes the role of psychology in a world of perpetual political, economic, cultural, and social crises. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
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Pub Date : 2021-07-22DOI: 10.4324/9781003145417-4-5
Ines Langemeyer
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Pub Date : 2021-07-22DOI: 10.4324/9781003145417-12-15
Athanasios Marvakis
{"title":"Security as Pacification -- The Trap of Psychologizing Social Phenomena","authors":"Athanasios Marvakis","doi":"10.4324/9781003145417-12-15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003145417-12-15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":432327,"journal":{"name":"Global Pandemics and Epistemic Crises in Psychology","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116322919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-07-22DOI: 10.4324/9781003145417-2-3
Jeffrey S. Reber
{"title":"Lessons Learned the Hard Way: Crisis and the Rethinking of Psychological Assumptions About Human Altruism and Agency","authors":"Jeffrey S. Reber","doi":"10.4324/9781003145417-2-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003145417-2-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":432327,"journal":{"name":"Global Pandemics and Epistemic Crises in Psychology","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115653476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-07-22DOI: 10.4324/9781003145417-6-8
M. Bamberg
{"title":"Uncertainty -- Have We Ever Been Certain? What Pfizer, Billy Graham, Trump, and Psychology Have in Common…","authors":"M. Bamberg","doi":"10.4324/9781003145417-6-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003145417-6-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":432327,"journal":{"name":"Global Pandemics and Epistemic Crises in Psychology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128597323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-07-22DOI: 10.4324/9781003145417-11-14
Luca Tateo
This chapter explore the history of civilizations, the social regulation of fear and hope has been a powerful tool of control: opposite emotions that share the common orientation towards the uncertainty of the future. For example, all religions elaborate on a vision of the afterlife. The uncertainty of future fate, the fear of punishment, or the hope of salvation regulate people's conduct in the present. The iconography of heavenly or hellish places is used as a semiotic device to admonish believers and guide behavior in different spheres of everyday life. During the current COVID-19 pandemic, politicians, doctors, and journalists talked about the war on the virus. This powerful metaphor is meant to mobilize the populations towards a common goal by appealing to the emotional dimension. The military metaphor evokes a field of meaning that activates a sense of fear, sacrifice, togetherness, and belonging. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
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Pub Date : 2021-07-22DOI: 10.4324/9781003145417-10-13
C. Burnham
This chapter explores that the university's two bodies in a dialectical fashion, for surely it would be churlish to ignore the very real benefits of this Internet qua unconscious of the coronavirus. And I mean this very gathering from which this volume derives (which, with its midnight sessions for those of us on the West Coast of North America, remind us that we still do have bodies, living in the solar-derived time zones of the planetary real), and, by extension, the possibilities of intellectual resistance and solidarity, across YouTube videos and Instagram memes, libgen book piracy and email collaborations, Facebook live poetry readings or activism. university's two bodies in a dialectical fashion, for surely it would be churlish to ignore the very real benefits of this Internet qua unconscious of the coronavirus. And I mean this very gathering from which this volume derives (which, with its midnight sessions for those of us on the West Coast of North America, remind us that we still do have bodies, living in the solar-derived time zones of the planetary real), and, by extension, the possibilities of intellectual resistance and solidarity, across YouTube videos and Instagram memes, libgen book piracy and email collaborations, Facebook live poetry readings or activism. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
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Pub Date : 2021-07-22DOI: 10.4324/9781003145417-7-9
P. Stenner
The concept of liminality refers to more or less devised or spontaneous transitions through which new becomings are enacted. Liminality is the experience of order transformed or structure suspended to yield anti-structure. Koselleck has traced a long heritage associated with the word ‘crisis’ and its close relative ‘critique.’ Both words derive from ancient Greek krino, meaning ‘separate,’ ‘decide,’ ‘quarrel’. With respect to crises on a global scale, Koselleck shows how already for Leibniz in the 17th century, the emerging Russian empire spelled crisis for Europe. But the word ‘crisis’ was first used in distinctively modern sense of a prognosis of the global political future by Rousseau in 1762. The history of psychology can be conceived as a series of crises with respect to its fundamental concept: experience. Social change of the kind required of humanity will mean profound changes, not just at level of practices, but also at the level of people’s mentality or ‘worldview,’ including perceptions, ideas, and desires.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-22DOI: 10.4324/9781003145417-3-4
R. Frie
{"title":"Living with Vulnerability: Contemporary Social Trauma, Resilience, and Indigenous History","authors":"R. Frie","doi":"10.4324/9781003145417-3-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003145417-3-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":432327,"journal":{"name":"Global Pandemics and Epistemic Crises in Psychology","volume":"08 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133860636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-07-22DOI: 10.4324/9781003145417-8-10
B. Slife, Zachary Beckstead
{"title":"Healing in Times of Crisis: Instrumental Versus Meaningful Relationships","authors":"B. Slife, Zachary Beckstead","doi":"10.4324/9781003145417-8-10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003145417-8-10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":432327,"journal":{"name":"Global Pandemics and Epistemic Crises in Psychology","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121020118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}