Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
- Editors’ Introduction Contemporary Socio-Cultural Research
- Part I Theoretical and methodological issues
- Part II From nature to culture
- Part III From orientation to meaning
- Part IV Symbolic resources for the constitution of experience
- Part V From society to the person through culture
- Part VI From social culture to personal culture
- Chapter 26 Culture and Social Representations
- Chapter 27 The Institutions Inside
- Chapter 28 Identity, Rights, and Duties
- Chapter 29 Symbolic Politics and Cultural Symbols
- Chapter 30 The Dialogical Self
- Part VII Making sense of the past for the future: memory and self-reflection
- General Conclusions: Socio-Cultural Psychology on the Move
- Index
Chapter 29 - Symbolic Politics and Cultural Symbols
Identity Formation Between and Beyond Nations and States
from Part VI - From social culture to personal culture
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
- Editors’ Introduction Contemporary Socio-Cultural Research
- Part I Theoretical and methodological issues
- Part II From nature to culture
- Part III From orientation to meaning
- Part IV Symbolic resources for the constitution of experience
- Part V From society to the person through culture
- Part VI From social culture to personal culture
- Chapter 26 Culture and Social Representations
- Chapter 27 The Institutions Inside
- Chapter 28 Identity, Rights, and Duties
- Chapter 29 Symbolic Politics and Cultural Symbols
- Chapter 30 The Dialogical Self
- Part VII Making sense of the past for the future: memory and self-reflection
- General Conclusions: Socio-Cultural Psychology on the Move
- Index
Summary
The contexts and conditions for symbolic politics (SP) differ between countries and are shaped differently by history, traditions, political cultures, and handed-down forms of authority and legitimate rule, apart from specific situational variations. Symbolic politics normally rests on the practical deployment of a variety of more or less complex signs embedded in the collective cultural and psychological repertoire of nations. Immigration as a policy field and a trigger of symbolic politics of the moral emergency type is interesting because it straddles the three modalities of nation/state interaction: the imperative, the indicative, and the subjunctive. The European integration process, particularly in its supranational or quasi-federal configuration as it impinges on national sovereignty. The chapter discusses the instances of SP which relate positively to disjunctures of state and nation and the perceived promises of transnationalism.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology , pp. 591 - 607Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007