Social Representation
Trust and Conflict
Representation, Culture and Dialogue
- Edited by Ivana Marková, and Alex Gillespie.
Published August 2011
Trust, distrust and conflict between social groups have existed throughout the history of humankind, although their forms have changed. Using three main concepts: culture, representation and dialogue, this book explores and re-thinks some of these changes in relation to concrete historical and…
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Symbolic Transformation
The Mind in Movement Through Culture and Society
- Edited by Brady Wagoner.
Published November 2009
This book brings together scholars from around the world to address the question of how culture and mind are related through symbols: it is through the mediation of symbols that we think, act, imagine, feel, dream and remember. Thus, to understand the structure, function and development of symbols…
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Knowledge in Context
Representations, Community and Culture
- By Sandra Jovchelovitch.
Published January 2007
This book explores the relationship between knowledge and context through a novel analysis of processes of representation. Sandra Jovchelovitch argues that representation, a social psychological construct relating self, other and object-world, is at the basis of all knowledge. Understanding its…
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