Community
Psychology in Global Perspective
Call
for Papers: Special issue on the Psychology of Globalization: Risks,
Challenges, and Possibilities
Important
Dates
July 15, 2017: Deadline for
paper submission
Editors
Terri
Mannarini & Sergio Salvatore, University of Salento, Italy
Theme
of the Special Issue
Globalization
is a polysemic concept. At a very general level, it refers to global flows of
goods, people, and ideas, but at a closer look globalization implies a variety
of aspects, each of which raises huge social issues: the de-territorialization
of social relationships, the economic, financial, and institutional
supranational interconnections, the spreading of global threats to environment
and future generations, the creation of a global culture but also the
westernization of cultures throughout the world (Scholte, 2000).
While social
sciences have been debating and developing this topic since the ‘80s, only
recently globalization has received some research attention in psychology,
driving the focus on the analysis of lay perspectives, on the exploration of
how people are influenced by globalization, how their identities are
transformed, what are the perceived consequences, and how they respond and
react (Arnett, 2002; Diaz & Zirchel, 2012; Kiu & Kwan, 2016). Examples
of responses to globalization are anti-global movements, cosmopolitanism and
global citizenship, resistance identities (Castells, 2000), as well as
exclusion, xenophobia and ethnocentrism, populism, political/ religious
radicalization, and terrorism.
The special issue
on The psychology of globalization: Risks, challenges, and possibilities
explores the contribution of human and social sciences to the comprehension of
the psychological side of globalization, at the individual, collective,
institutional, and community level. Although psychology is the main research
field addressed by this call, contributions to the development of a
psychosocial knowledge on globalization that come from different disciplines
are also welcomed.
We invite
papers that draw on diverse theoretical and methodological approaches to offer
theoretical and/or empirical insights into the psychological understanding of
the globalization process and how it operates in contemporary societies across
different cultures and communities.
In particular,
we seek contributions that can not only offer a comprehensive view of the
meanings and the consequences brought about by globalization, and of the
responses they prompt, but that can also prospect for possibilities that open
up in a globalized world and/or elaborate on the paths to transform its
undesirable effects in opportunities for social change.
Details
Submitted
papers should contain original and unpublished work and must be written in
English. For non-native speakers, editing of the manuscript by a competent
English-speaking editor is requested.
Papers are due
July 15, 2017. Early submissions are welcome.
All submitted
papers will undergo the journal's regular peer review process.
Papers must be
prepared in full accord with the journal’s Author guidelines and be submitted through the journal
portal (http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/cpgp/index).
Inquiries
regarding topic or scope for the special issue can be sent to Terri Mannarini (terri.mannarini@unisalento.it)
and Sergio Salvatore (sergio.salvatore@unisalento.it).
Papers
unrelated to the theme of the special issue may be submitted at any time
through the journal’s online submission system and will be
considered for publication in Community Psychology In Global Perspective as
regular articles. Inquiries regarding the journal’s aim, scope, and policy can
be sent to terri.mannarini@unisalento.it
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