Thalia Magioglou
A volume in Advances in Cultural PsychologySeries Editor: Jaan Valsiner, Clark UniversityThis book is perhaps the first systematic treatment of politics from the perspective of culturalpsychology. Politics is a complex that psychology usually fails to understand- as it assumes aposition in society that attempts to be free of politics itself. Politics is associated both with aneveryday practice, and the dynamics of globalization; with the way group conflicts, ideologies,social representations and identities, are lived and co-constructed by social actors. The authors ofthe book address these issues through their research grounded in different parts of the world, ondemocracy and political order, the social representation of power, gender studies, the use of metaphorsand symbolic power in political discourse, social identities and methodological questions.The book will be used by social and political psychologists but is also of interest to the othersocial sciences: political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, educationalists, and it is at alevel where sophisticated lay public would be able to appreciate its coverage. Its use in upperlevelcollege teaching is possible, and expected at graduate/postgraduate levels.