Editors:
- Brings together prominent scholars and diverse perspectives across the fields of theoretical, critical, and political psychology
- Critically situates the discipline of psychology within crisis politics, framing psychological interventions as forms of political action
- Offers timely and vital reflections on the COVID-19 pandemic, among other contemporary crises
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology (PSTHP)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Decolonization
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Interventions
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Front Matter
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Science and Politics
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About this book
The authors examine how notions of crisis and the interpretation of crisis scenarios are heavily intertwined with governmental and state interests. Seeking to disentangle individual subjectivity, subjectification, and science as forms of politics, the volume works toward an explicit goal to decolonize psychology. The chapters elaborate on the importance of the psychological sciences in times of crisis and the role of psychologists as practitioners. Ultimately, the diverse contributions underline the connection of scientific theory, practice, and politics.
Interdisciplinary in scope and wide-ranging in its perspectives, this timely work will appeal to students and scholars of theoretical and political psychology, critical psychology, and cultural studies.
Reviews
– Ernst Schraube, Professor of Psychology, Roskilde University, Denmark
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Psychology, St. Bonaventure University, St. Bonaventure, USA
Irene Strasser
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Social Science and Cultural Studies, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, USA
Martin Dege
About the editors
Irene Strasser is Assistant Professor at St. Bonaventure University, NY, USA. Her research focuses on lifespan development and cultural psychology with an emphasis on adult development and aging. Her work is informed by critical gerontological perspectives, social justice studies, and qualitative approaches.
Martin Dege is Assistant Professor of Narrative Inquiry at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, USA. His research investigates how crisis experiences shape our everyday lives and the narratives we tell. He is also interested in the history of psychology as a discipline
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Psychology of Global Crises and Crisis Politics
Book Subtitle: Intervention, Resistance, Decolonization
Editors: Irene Strasser, Martin Dege
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76939-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-76938-3Published: 04 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-76941-3Published: 05 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-76939-0Published: 03 November 2021
Series ISSN: 2946-2452
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2460
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 360
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Psychology, general, Critical Psychology, Community and Environmental Psychology, Public Health, Clinical Psychology