Cultural Psychology of Intervention in the Globalized World

ISBN-13: 9781641132855 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 348 str.

Schliewe, Sanna

Opis

Explores how attending to meaning-making processes becomes crucial when researching or intervening within cultural encounters and global everyday life. It is through listening to the foreign other, to attend to their immediate experiences, as well as exploring how meaning may be mediated and co-constructed by them in everyday life that collaboration can be created and sustained.

Spis treści

• Series Editor’s Preface: Sincere Desires for Improvements in the Globalizing World
• Editors’ Introduction: Weaving Culture Plot: Intervention at the intersection of Borders and Community in a Changing World
• Part I: Principles Of Intervention. Therapy as Anthropology
• The Fuel and the Engine: A General Semio-Cultural Psychological Framework for Social Intervention
• Part II: Community Interventions—In Europe And Latin America. Homes as Intervention Forms
• Psychosocial Interventions in the Context of Forced Migration: Empowerment and Social Action
• A Culture of Peace: Social Action Learning and Peace-Building in Mexico Through the Educational System
• Amerindian Support Network
• The Reconstruction of a New System of Needs After a Post-War Emergency
• Part III: Global Mobile Agents As Receivers Of Intervention. Global Health Intervention from Global North To South: (Academic) Preparation of Students
• Industrial Citizenship and International Mobility: Employer’s Interventions into the State of Welfare of Danish and Finnish ‘Expats’ in India
• Relocation Services for Families in Geographical Itinerancy: Beyond the “Cultural Problem”
• Part IV: The Everyday Life Of Global Mobile Agents. The Mobile Life-World Map: A Dialogical Tool for Understanding Expatriates
• Strangers in Foreign Lands: Entering the Missionary Field
• Identity Negotiation Across Cultures: A Case Study of International Women Aid Workers
• Who is an ‘Expatriate’? Euro-American Identities, Race, and Integration in Postcolonial India
• Here to Stay: How Relationships, Results, and Grit Characterize Exemplary International Aid Workers
• Biographies.