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New books:

Sugiman, T., Gergen, K., Wagner, W., & Yamada, Y. (Eds) (2008).
Meaning in Action – Construction, Narratives and Representations. Tokyo: Springer.

Traditional psychology has long been concerned with cognition, motivation, emotion, and the mind in general?the mind being held responsible for individual behavior in society?and scholars of social and cultural psychology have worked in relative isolation. Meaning in Action is a bold departure as it places culture at the center of human functioning and posits that it is not the independent mind that gives rise to human action but participation in a world of socially created meanings. Each chapter illuminates the socially grounded view of the individual. Investigations into the power of shared meanings, norms, and moralities in everyday life, as well as individual and social narratives, point to their pivotal significance in human relationships. Among other topics, it provides new insights into forgiveness, infant adoption, trauma, supranational identity, and prejudice. The book offers an alternative to the widely dominant vision of psychological functioning and draws on a wide variety of current movements to present a deeply challenging and globally integrative view of human behavior.

Moloney, G. and Walker, I. (Eds) (2007). Social Representations and Identity: Content, Process and Power.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Description
Power, social positioning, identity, and social knowledge construction underpin most contemporary social issues. However, in many instances the topic of study is the issue itself which can lead to an implicit conceptualization of the issue as static, distinct and separable from the identity, and relationships, of the groups to whom the issue pertains. Explicitly drawing from the non-individualistic perspective offered by social representations theory, this book presents an alternative view of social identity by articulating the inseparable dynamic relationships that exist between content, process and power relations when social identity is embedded in social knowledge.
Social representations and Identity: Content, Process, and Power is an integrated collection of theoretically driven applied research by authors from United Kingdom, Europe, Israel, Australasia, and North America that addresses salient social issues such as: immigration, refugees, ethnic and minority relations, national and supranational identity, health, and techno-political rationality.

Table of contents
Introduction--Gail Moloney & Iain Walker * Moving People and Shifting Representations. Making Immigrant Identities--Kay Deaux & Shaun Wiley *
Social Representations of Alterity in the United States--Gina Philogène * Identity Representations within Israeli Society: A Kaleidoscope of Minority Phenomena--Emda Orr *Social Representations and the Politically Satirical Cartoon: The Construction and Reproduction of the Refugee and Asylum-Seeker Identity--Gail Moloney * A Narrative Theory of History and Identity: Social Identity, Social Representations, Society and the Individual--James Liu & Janos László * Representing ‘Us’ and ‘Them’: Constructing White Identities in Everyday Talk--Martha Augoustinos & Damien Riggs * "It’s Not Their Fault that They Have that Colour Skin, Is It?” Young British Children and the Possibilities for Contesting Racializing Representations--Caroline Howarth * Conceptions and Misconceptions: Social Representations of Medically Assisted Reproduction--Iain Walker, Pia Broderick & Helen Correia * Inviolable Versus Alterable Identities: Culture, Biotechnology and Resistance--Nicole Kronberger & Wolfgang Wagner * Self-Control, Identity and Risk--Helene Joffe * Social Identities and Social Representations: How Are They Related?--Ivana Marková

 

New peer-reviewed online journal "The International Journal for Dialogical Science" (IJDS):

The International Journal for Dialogical Science (IJDS) is a peer-reviewed scholarly publication sponsored by the
International Society for Dialogical Science (ISDS). For further information see www.dialogical.org

 

New peer-reviewed online journal "International Journal of Idiographic Science" (IJIS):

edited by Jaan Valsiner, Peter C.M. Molenaar, and Sarah Strout
http://www.valsiner.com/