Overview
- Explores the possibilities of a discursive psychological approach to peace psychology
- Includes contributions from scholars at various stages of their academic careers, from early career researchers to professors with an international reputation
- Covers range of perspectives within discursive psychology – from the micro to the macro level
Part of the book series: Peace Psychology Book Series (PPBS)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Interpersonal and Intergroup Conflicts
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Intractable and International Military Conflicts
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Refuge and Migration
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Conceptual and Methodological Reflections
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Keywords
- European refugee crisis
- mediation practice
- violence against women
- analysis of discourse in conflict
- conversation analysis
- ideological patterning in discourse
- discourse and intergroup theory
- moral psychology of intergroup relations
- psychological discounting strategies
- discursive psychology and international conflicts
- analysis of news coverage of War on Terror
- analysis of visual culture of war
- discursive analysis of Charlie Hedbo
- discourse analysis
About this book
This first-of-its-kind volume brings discursive psychology and peace psychology together in a compelling practical synthesis. An array of internationally-recognised contributors examine multiple dimensions of discourse—official and casual, speech, rhetoric, and text—in creating and maintaining conflict and building mediation and reconciliation. Examples of strategies for dealing with longstanding conflicts (the Middle East), significant flashpoints (the Charlie Hebdo case), and current heated disputes (the refugee ‘crisis’ in Europe) demonstrate discursive methods in context as they bridge theory with real life. This diversity of subject matter is matched by the range of discursive approaches applied to peace psychology concepts, methods, and practice.
Among the topics covered:
- Discursive approaches to violence against women.
- The American gun control debate: a discursive analysis.
- Constructing peace and violence in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
- Discursive psychological research on refugees.
- Citizenship, social injustice, and the quest for a critical social psychology of peace.
- The emotional and political power of images of suffering: discursive psychology and the study of visual rhetoric.
Discourse, Peace, and Conflict offers expansive ideas to scholars and practitioners in peace psychology, as well as those in related areas such as social psychology, political psychology, and community psychology with an interest in issues pertaining to peace and conflict.
Reviews
“The work is an excellent collection of relevant theory and research concerning the discursive themes and strategies dealing with conflict and peaceful resolutions within and between groups. This book will prove valuable to peace researchers as well as students interested in furthering their understanding of discursive psychology.” (S. Reysen, Choice, Vol. 56 (10), June, 2019)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Stephen Gibson is based at York St John University, UK, where he has taught psychology since 2005. In his research, Stephen uses discursive and rhetorical approaches to explore a range of social psychological topics, including citizenship, national identity, dis/obedience and representations of peace and conflict. He is editor of Representations of Peace and Conflict (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012; with Simon Mollan) and Doing Your Qualitative Psychology Project (Sage, 2012; with Cath Sullivan and Sarah Riley).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Discourse, Peace, and Conflict
Book Subtitle: Discursive Psychology Perspectives
Editors: Stephen Gibson
Series Title: Peace Psychology Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99094-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-99093-4Published: 10 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-99094-1Published: 29 November 2018
Series ISSN: 2197-5779
Series E-ISSN: 2197-5787
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 339
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Personality and Social Psychology, Community and Environmental Psychology, Discourse Analysis