Congress of Critical Social Psychology: Discourse, Materiality and Politics
February 6th, 7th and 8th, 2013. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
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The solidification of the knowledge economy in the context of contemporary neoliberal capitalism has consolidated procedures and criteria that model academic production in terms of economic efficiency. In the field of Social Sciences, funding policies are biased towards the development of knowledge and technologies for the management of populations, concealing the progressive deterioration of political legitimacy, worsening of life conditions, loss of freedoms and social rights and the lack of environmental sustainability. In this context, it is necessary to reflect on the role of psychosocial knowledge in the legitimation and transformation of dominant ideologies and practices.
Critical perspectives address psychosocial phenomena taking into consideration multiple semiotic-material interactions taking place within a socio-historical context, considering the social and political implications of the knowledge that is being produced. In recent decades discursive perspectives have become a backbone in the production of critical knowledge, analysing how certain versions of social reality get stabilised and developing strategies for transforming these sedimented realities. At the same time, the recognition of the heterogeneity of the constituent elements of social reality has led, in recent years, to the incorporation of intrapsychic, affective and material elements in the analysis and intervention of psychosocial phenomena. The recognition of the constructed character of our semiotic-material reality opens the door for the necessary involvement of psychosocial knowledge in the transformation of present conditions of power and the consideration of the political dimension in the development of research practice.
Critical Social Psychology congregates different ontologies and epistemologies that, as a toolbox, seek to identify, analyse and transform our existing power relations. This meeting opens a space for debate and reflection to share different academic and political sensitivities, thematic and theoretical developments in a critical approach to social reality. A space that welcomes specific investigations, theoretical analysis and political positions within a critical reflection on the current forms of social reproduction and transformation.
Address: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Facultat de Psicologia
Departament de Psicologia Social
08193 Bellaterrra (Cerdanyola del Vallès)
Presentation.
The solidification of the knowledge economy in the context of contemporary neoliberal capitalism has consolidated procedures and criteria that model academic production in terms of economic efficiency. In the field of Social Sciences, funding policies are biased towards the development of knowledge and technologies for the management of populations, concealing the progressive deterioration of political legitimacy, worsening of life conditions, loss of freedoms and social rights and the lack of environmental sustainability. In this context, it is necessary to reflect on the role of psychosocial knowledge in the legitimation and transformation of dominant ideologies and practices.
Critical perspectives address psychosocial phenomena taking into consideration multiple semiotic-material interactions taking place within a socio-historical context, considering the social and political implications of the knowledge that is being produced. In recent decades discursive perspectives have become a backbone in the production of critical knowledge, analysing how certain versions of social reality get stabilised and developing strategies for transforming these sedimented realities. At the same time, the recognition of the heterogeneity of the constituent elements of social reality has led, in recent years, to the incorporation of intrapsychic, affective and material elements in the analysis and intervention of psychosocial phenomena. The recognition of the constructed character of our semiotic-material reality opens the door for the necessary involvement of psychosocial knowledge in the transformation of present conditions of power and the consideration of the political dimension in the development of research practice.
Critical Social Psychology congregates different ontologies and epistemologies that, as a toolbox, seek to identify, analyse and transform our existing power relations. This meeting opens a space for debate and reflection to share different academic and political sensitivities, thematic and theoretical developments in a critical approach to social reality. A space that welcomes specific investigations, theoretical analysis and political positions within a critical reflection on the current forms of social reproduction and transformation.
Address: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Facultat de Psicologia
Departament de Psicologia Social
08193 Bellaterrra (Cerdanyola del Vallès)
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Discourse and Social Psychology includes chapters on the theoretical roots of discourse analysis in linguistic philosophy, ethnomethodology and semiotics and an overview on the perspectives of discourse analysis and its utility in studying attitudes. Five substantive chapters are concerned with the key concepts of social psychology. Finally, the authors identify future research directions and present an exhaustive bibliography of all relevant literature.
The authors draw on a wide range of examples from written and spoken discourse and avoid jargon at all times, even when introducing complex theoretical issues.
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The critically important new text is written in a way that is accessible for undergraduate students as well as more advanced readers and could be an exciting gateway into a new understanding of the rich, historical discipline of psychology.
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This book is the first systematic and accessible introduction to the theory and application of discourse analysis within the field of social psychology.
Discourse and Social Psychology includes chapters on the theoretical roots of discourse analysis in linguistic philosophy, ethnomethodology and semiotics and an overview on the perspectives of discourse analysis and its utility in studying attitudes. Five substantive chapters are concerned with the key concepts of social psychology. Finally, the authors identify future research directions and present an exhaustive bibliography of all relevant literature.
The authors draw on a wide range of examples from written and spoken discourse and avoid jargon at all times, even when introducing complex theoretical issues.
This new book proposes a way out of the crisis by letting go of the idea that psychology needs new foundations or a new identity, whether biological, discursive, or cognitive. The psychological is not narrowly confined to any one aspect of human experience; it is quite literally everywhere. Drawing on a range of influential thinkers including Michel Serres, Michel Foucault, AN Whitehead and Gilles Deleuze, the book proposes a strong process-oriented approach to the psychological which studies events or occasions. Aspects of experience such as communication or embodiment are treated as thoroughly mediated – the product of multiple intersecting relationships between the biological, the psychic, and the social. The outcome is an image of a ‘mobile’ reflexively founded discipline which follows the psychological wherever it takes us, from the depths of embodiment to the complexities of modern global politics.
The critically important new text is written in a way that is accessible for undergraduate students as well as more advanced readers and could be an exciting gateway into a new understanding of the rich, historical discipline of psychology.