The Psychology Of Radical Social Change: From Rage To Revolution
by Jaan Valsiner /
2018 / English / PDF
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Since 2011 the world has experienced an explosion of popular
uprisings that began in the Middle East and quickly spread to other
regions. What are the different social-psychological conditions for
these events to emerge, what different trajectories do they take,
and how are they are represented to the public? To answer these
questions, this book applies the latest social psychological
theories to contextualized cases of revolutions and uprisings from
the eighteenth to the twenty-first century in countries around the
world. In so doing, it explores continuities and discontinuities
between past and present uprisings, and foregrounds such issues as
the crowds, collective action, identity changes, globalization,
radicalization, the plasticity of political behaviour, and public
communication.
Since 2011 the world has experienced an explosion of popular
uprisings that began in the Middle East and quickly spread to other
regions. What are the different social-psychological conditions for
these events to emerge, what different trajectories do they take,
and how are they are represented to the public? To answer these
questions, this book applies the latest social psychological
theories to contextualized cases of revolutions and uprisings from
the eighteenth to the twenty-first century in countries around the
world. In so doing, it explores continuities and discontinuities
between past and present uprisings, and foregrounds such issues as
the crowds, collective action, identity changes, globalization,
radicalization, the plasticity of political behaviour, and public
communication.
