List of Contributors xvPreface xxCHAPTER 1 Some Historical and Philosophical Considerations 1Christopher J. HewerCHAPTER 2 A Critical History of Research Methods 28Ron Roberts and Christopher J. HewerCHAPTER 3 From Alienation to Estrangement: Political Thought and Psychology 54Ron RobertsCHAPTER 4 The Politics of Psychological Language: Discourse and Rhetoric 73Simon LockeCHAPTER 5 Identity 93Christopher J. Hewer and Evanthia LyonsCHAPTER 6 Narrating as Political Action 114Brian SchiffCHAPTER 7 Connecting Social Exclusion and Agency: Social Class Matters 134Sarah Jay, Orla Muldoon, and Caroline HowarthCHAPTER 8 Migration 152Spyridoula Ntani, Artemis M. Griva, and Xenia ChryssochoouCHAPTER 9 Political Decision-Making 168Jack S. LevyCHAPTER 10 Foreign Policy and Identity 189Emma O'DwyerCHAPTER 11 Social Memory and the Collective Past 207Christopher J. HewerCHAPTER 12 Crowds, Social Identities, and the Shaping of Everyday Social Relations 231Fergus G. Neville and Stephen D. ReicherCHAPTER 13 State Militarism and International Conflict 253Stephen GibsonCHAPTER 14 Social Influence and Malevolent Authority: Obedience Revisited 271Ron RobertsCHAPTER 15 Intergroup Conflict, Peace, and Reconciliation 292J. Christopher Cohrs, Johanna R. Vollhardt, and Shelley McKeownReferences 313Index 349
Christopher J. Hewer is Senior Lecturer in Social and Political Psychology at Kingston University, London where he teaches critical social psychology and the psychology of art and film. His research interests focus on collective memory, shifting memorialisation and forgetting in cultural discourse.Evanthia Lyons is Head of School and Professor of Social and Political Psychology at Kingston University, London, UK. Her research focuses on people's understanding of political processes and the factors that influence their engagement in conventional and unconventional political actions.