Social psychology of context and in context: Understanding the temporal, spatial and embodied dimensions of contemporary geopolitics DOI
Sandra Obradović,

Orsolya Vincze,

Gordon Sammut

et al.

British Journal of Social Psychology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 64(1)

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Abstract Critical voices within social psychology have, for some time, emphasized that context matters understanding psychological phenomena and processes. This special issue examines what a of context, in can contribute to contemporary geopolitics. We argue that, examining the interplay between geopolitics, we understand how geopolitical contexts shape processes psychology, turn, informs our phenomena. There are two thematic strands issue; first, mechanisms influence perceptions actions contexts, second, geopolitics shapes as discipline, including its theoretical frameworks power dynamics. Papers examine three dimensions which meet—the temporal, spatial embodied—representing history, geography relations, while emphasizing their interconnectedness. Drawing on critical this introduction underscores constructed, contested political nature time space. By interlinking historical meaning with spatialization, offers deeper individuals, groups nations create contest landscapes life. The contributions highlight both opportunities challenges engaging these intersections.

Language: Английский

Social psychology of context and in context: Understanding the temporal, spatial and embodied dimensions of contemporary geopolitics DOI
Sandra Obradović,

Orsolya Vincze,

Gordon Sammut

et al.

British Journal of Social Psychology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 64(1)

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Abstract Critical voices within social psychology have, for some time, emphasized that context matters understanding psychological phenomena and processes. This special issue examines what a of context, in can contribute to contemporary geopolitics. We argue that, examining the interplay between geopolitics, we understand how geopolitical contexts shape processes psychology, turn, informs our phenomena. There are two thematic strands issue; first, mechanisms influence perceptions actions contexts, second, geopolitics shapes as discipline, including its theoretical frameworks power dynamics. Papers examine three dimensions which meet—the temporal, spatial embodied—representing history, geography relations, while emphasizing their interconnectedness. Drawing on critical this introduction underscores constructed, contested political nature time space. By interlinking historical meaning with spatialization, offers deeper individuals, groups nations create contest landscapes life. The contributions highlight both opportunities challenges engaging these intersections.

Language: Английский

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