Abstract:This article explores the story of Einar, a Faroese man who always lived within a 500-meters radius on the island of Suðuroy, who never felt “stuck” or “immobile” in the literal sense of the word. Studies have shown that staying is a process, as much as mobility; yet while mobility studies mainly show that imagination is an incentive to move, we argue that imagination may also actively support staying. Combining sociocultural psychology with mobility studies, we propose to explore the entanglement of symbolic … Show more
“…In this way, we aim to understand the constraints and enablers of developing in a given direction. Third, researchers need to reflect on their own positionality and role in knowledge cocreation ( Cornish, 2020a ; Pedersen & Zittoun, 2022 ). Case studies are heterogeneous in their conceptualization and application.…”
Section: Methodology For a Social Psychology Of And For World-makingmentioning
Academic Abstract Social psychology’s disconnect from the vital and urgent questions of people’s lived experiences reveals limitations in the current paradigm. We draw on a related perspective in social psychology1—the sociocultural approach—and argue how this perspective can be elaborated to consider not only social psychology as a historical science but also social psychology of and for world-making. This conceptualization can make sense of key theoretical and methodological challenges faced by contemporary social psychology. As such, we describe the ontology, epistemology, ethics, and methods of social psychology of and for world-making. We illustrate our framework with concrete examples from social psychology. We argue that reconceptualizing social psychology in terms of world-making can make it more humble yet also more relevant, reconnecting it with the pressing issues of our time. Public Abstract We propose that social psychology should focus on “world-making” in two senses. First, people are future-oriented and often are guided more by what could be than what is. Second, social psychology can contribute to this future orientation by supporting people’s world-making and also critically reflecting on the role of social psychological research in world-making. We unpack the philosophical assumptions, methodological procedures, and ethical considerations that underpin a social psychology of and for world-making. Social psychological research, whether it is intended or not, contributes to the societies and cultures in which we live, and thus it cannot be a passive bystander of world-making. By embracing social psychology of and for world-making and facing up to the contemporary societal challenges upon which our collective future depends will make social psychology more humble but also more relevant.
“…In this way, we aim to understand the constraints and enablers of developing in a given direction. Third, researchers need to reflect on their own positionality and role in knowledge cocreation ( Cornish, 2020a ; Pedersen & Zittoun, 2022 ). Case studies are heterogeneous in their conceptualization and application.…”
Section: Methodology For a Social Psychology Of And For World-makingmentioning
Academic Abstract Social psychology’s disconnect from the vital and urgent questions of people’s lived experiences reveals limitations in the current paradigm. We draw on a related perspective in social psychology1—the sociocultural approach—and argue how this perspective can be elaborated to consider not only social psychology as a historical science but also social psychology of and for world-making. This conceptualization can make sense of key theoretical and methodological challenges faced by contemporary social psychology. As such, we describe the ontology, epistemology, ethics, and methods of social psychology of and for world-making. We illustrate our framework with concrete examples from social psychology. We argue that reconceptualizing social psychology in terms of world-making can make it more humble yet also more relevant, reconnecting it with the pressing issues of our time. Public Abstract We propose that social psychology should focus on “world-making” in two senses. First, people are future-oriented and often are guided more by what could be than what is. Second, social psychology can contribute to this future orientation by supporting people’s world-making and also critically reflecting on the role of social psychological research in world-making. We unpack the philosophical assumptions, methodological procedures, and ethical considerations that underpin a social psychology of and for world-making. Social psychological research, whether it is intended or not, contributes to the societies and cultures in which we live, and thus it cannot be a passive bystander of world-making. By embracing social psychology of and for world-making and facing up to the contemporary societal challenges upon which our collective future depends will make social psychology more humble but also more relevant.
“…We have developed the MMN as an overarching tool, only with human movement in mind. At this stage, we still have a limited understanding about how this could apply to immobility, as well as to mobility of non-human phenomena -ideas, culture, data, waste and pollution, and capital (Söderström et al, 2013;Zittoun, 2020;Pedersen and Zittoun, 2021). Further work in this direction is necessary.…”
Section: Understanding What Lies Behind the Categories Of 'Migrants' ...mentioning
Categorising certain forms of human movement as ‘migration’ and others as ‘mobility’ has far-reaching consequences. We introduce the migration–mobility nexus as a framework for other researchers to interrogate the relationship between these two categories of human movement and explain how they shape different social representations. Our framework articulates four ideal-typical interplays between categories of migration and categories of mobility: continuum (fluid mobilities transform into more stable forms of migration and vice versa), enablement (migration requires mobility, and mobility can trigger migration), hierarchy (migration and mobility are political categories that legitimise hierarchies of movement) and opposition (migration and mobility are pitted against each other). These interplays reveal the normative underpinnings of different categories, which we argue are too often implicit and unacknowledged.
“…Ainsi, les travaux sur le développement des enfants avant le langage ont montré l'importance de la maîtrise progressive des objets matériels selon des usages canoniques, c'est-à-dire dans des échanges sociaux et des activités sémiotiques (C. Moro et Rodriguez, 1998 ;Rodriguez et al, 2018). Les travaux sur les adultes en mobilité mettent en évidence l'importance des objets et du rapport au voisinage et du paysage, dans leurs aspects matériels et symboliques, dans la définition de soi et la continuité psychique (Levitan, 2018 ;Pedersen et Zittoun, 2021 ;Zittoun, 2006Zittoun, , 2019 ; les travaux sur l'apprentissage au travail révèlent la place prépondérante de la sociomatérialité dans l'acquisition de nouvelles compétences, la prise de conscience ou la résistance au changement (Filliettaz et al, 2008 ;Kloetzer, 2020 ;Lamamra et Masdonati, 2009). Il existe par ailleurs une période de la vie durant laquelle l'importance de la sociomatérialité devient particulièrement criante : lorsque les personnes deviennent très âgées, au point que leur force physique et leur mobilité commencent à décliner.…”
Section: Psychologie Socioculturelle Du Développement Et Sociomatéria...unclassified
« Dans cet ouvrage, c’est tout un monde qui se dévoile – un monde en mouvement, en interaction, constitué d’humains et de non-humains reliés par des interdépendances que notre pensée occidentale, surtout si elle est éprise d’abstraction, tend à sous-estimer […] Personnellement, il me semble que ces chapitres, par leurs découvertes minutieusement décrites, font naître un sentiment envoûtant que le monde existe vraiment ( !) et qu’il est fait de milliers de réalités que l’on avait négligées, passées sous silence. Et celles-ci sont bien plus intéressantes qu’attendu ! On y sent une tension stimulante entre l’évidence ordinaire (nous savons bien que nous sommes entourés d’objets matériels) et l’extraordinaire surprise de découvrir la vie foisonnante qui anime, au creux de nos gestes et de nos usages, répétitifs ou créatifs, tous ces objets qui sont loin d’être neutres. […] Les travaux présentés dans ce livre s’appuient essentiellement sur des études de cas. Utilisons la métaphore du miroir pour dire la richesse de l’approche idéographique. Quand on regarde un miroir de poche tenu en mains, on ne voit qu’une petite surface aux frontières bien établies. Et pourtant, avec une orientation bien choisie, elle peut réfléchir énormément de choses ! Étudier en profondeur le “local” (cette petite surface) permet de s’approcher du “global” ou du moins de cette part du monde, parfois très haute ou profonde, dont elle porte le reflet. »
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