Within the general framework of Cultural Psychology, this book provides different perspectives on the relationship between border and identity by experts from several disciplines (i.e. history, psychology, geography etc.). The book offers an “in- depth” comprehension of the intricacy of the border making process and how this affect the identity formation from a psychological, social and cultural point of views. The book takes a close look to some European countries as specimens to investigate the complex link between creation of national/ethnic identity and bordering process that evoke the more general question of the I-OTHER relation.
This book provides an integrated insight into the complex phenomenon of borders and identity. The process of making and negotiating border and the identity formation on the border is analyzed as psychological, social, historical, and cultural phenomena.
This Brief will be of interest to researchers and students as well as diplomats and administrative policy makers within the fields of political science, psychology, cultural psychology, and sociology.
Provides a unique cultural developmental perspective to examine the formation of identity on the borders Offers an in depth analysis of socially relevant issues from the lenses of cultural psychology Discusses the complex phenomenon of borders by integrating psychology, history, geography and social sciences
Katrin Kullasepp
Borders Border Zones Social Membranes Identity Otherness Belonging Identity Construction Cultural Psychology Social Representations Dialogical Self Semiosphere Semiotic Negotiation Semiosis of Bordering Meaning Making Self-Making Narratives