This Handbook, an international endeavor in cultural political psychology, integrates global experts' insights to examine the psychological role of sign systems in policy, power, and politics. The focus is on how meaning, derived from action, influences power negotiations, requiring an exploration of the individual and their co-created signs. Addressing the challenge of converting rich theories into practical applications, the Handbook aspires to clarify complex phenomena, promoting a holistic understanding of individuals, communities, and the interplay of symbols, identity, and politics. By democratizing discourse and promoting inclusivity, especially from non-Western and underrepresented contexts, we hope to unravel the world's intricate political tapestries.

Combines insights from cultural psychology, semiotics, and political science to offer an interdisciplinary perspective Integrates contributions from experts within non-Western and underrepresented contexts to present a global perspective Emphasizes the importance of converting rich theoretical insights into practical applications

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Kevin R. Carriere is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Stonehill College, where he studies the intersection of collective action and policy solutions. He was the James Marshall Public Policy Fellow for the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues in 2019-2020, serving as a Policy Advisor for Congresswoman Deb Haaland. He has also received the Society for Personality and Social Psychology's SAGE Early Career Trajectory Award and numerous grants and awards for his teaching and research. His co-edited works include Imagining collective futures: Perspectives from social, cultural, and political psychology (Palgrave) and Where culture and mind meet: Principles for a dynamic cultural psychology (Information Age Publishing). His first book, Psychology in policy: Redefining politics through the individual (Springer Nature) began a call for an individual, meaning-making focus on political psychology.

Inhalt

Part I. Dialogue, Sensemaking, and Democratic Communication.- Chapter 1. Bakhtin at the Boundaries: exploring self-positionality in relation to socio-cultural ideologies.- Chapter 2. Together: Trusting others and conversation in dark times.- Chapter 3. The cornerstones of a theoretical model based on affective semiosis to prevent the monological rigidity of conspiracy theories in a democratic system.- Chapter 4. Political cartoons as answerable dialogical acts: How a sardonic Brexit cartoon reveals Arendt's 'imperial character' of UK voters.- Chapter 5. Towards democratic curiosity: On the role of political disagreement in political dialogue.- Part II. Education, Agency, and Institutional Spaces.- Chapter 6. Student authorial agency in the three educational paradigms: Conventional, Progressive, and Democratic.- Chapter 7. University as an independent place: Towards the local-worldly university.- Chapter 8. A Funds of Identity Approach to Social Justice in Education.- Chapter 9. In addition to anonymity, there is always nominality.- Part III. Memory, Performance, and Embodied Political Life.- Chapter 10. A narrative of their own? Reflections what youths do with national master narratives.- Chapter 11. Monuments to Memory: Memorials in experience and politics.- Chapter 12. Transitional Spaces as Political Places.- Chapter 13. Social choreography of a Brazilian performance: Nego Fugido.