The Social Psychology of Citizenship
Critical Advances and Interdisciplinary Insights
Irini Kadianaki editor Eleni Andreouli editor Lia Figgou editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publishing:27th Jan '26
£39.99
This title is due to be published on 27th January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
This book develops a social psychology of citizenship, pushing the boundaries of the discipline to articulate a theoretically rich social psychological framework for the study of citizenship.
Featuring contributions from established and up-and-coming global researchers, the book draws attention to the micro-politics of everyday life. The volume is divided into four parts considering different sites where citizenship is performed: governing, bordering, locating and re-imaging citizenship. Each part considers a particular dynamic of citizenship, and the volume features trans-disciplinary commentaries from expert scholars in other social sciences and humanities. The book also revisits core social psychological topics such as prejudice, intergroup relations and identities in new productive ways that foreground the power dynamics and ‘battles of ideas’ playing out in often implicit ways. It provides a systematic, state-of-the-art presentation of key theoretical and empirical work in the social psychology of citizenship and extends citizenship studies to include under-explored topics in the field - such as the environment and precarity - using a critical and decolonial lens.
Bringing together an innovative framework that advances a framework for future study in the field, the book will be highly relevant reading for postgraduate students and researchers in social psychology, political psychology, community psychology, sociology and migration studies. It will also be of interest to advanced undergraduate students, activists and policy makers interested in citizenship and societal challenges.
This groundbreaking volume explores how citizenship is enacted and contested in the routines of everyday life. From parenting and migration to digital activism and urban space, it reveals how citizens resist, rework, and reimagine belonging and political agency in the face of neoliberalism, precarity, and rising authoritarianism.
John Dixon, Professor of Social Psychology, The Open University, UK
Studying the lived experiences of people in struggles over citizenship rights is crucial. This groundbreaking and highly anticipated contribution to social psychology of citizenship examines how people are struggling for citizenship as a right to a socially and ecologically just society and reveals acts of citizenship as affective politics of the everyday.
Engin Isin, Professor Emeritus in International Politics, Queen Mary University of London
What constitutes citizenship has become a pressing issue all over the world as nation states increasingly tighten restrictions on who should belong. Unlike abstract theories of citizenship, this book examines this contested concept from the ground-up: from everyday understandings, experiences, and practices of citizens themselves. The Social Psychology of Citizenship provides a refreshing human dimension to the field of citizenship studies.
Professor Emerita Martha Augoustinos,University of Adelaide, Australia
The Social Psychology of Citizenship convincingly establishes social psychology’s potential to illuminate the subtle relational processes through which citizenship is experienced and enacted in the course of everyday life. Drawing from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives, the contributors to this edited collection address a wide range of contemporary issues, documenting the various ways in which citizens strategically handle competing demands of neoliberal ideology in the course of their mundane social activities. In so doing, the authors shed new light on the political agency and subversive potential inherent in routine social interactions. This exciting and thought-provoking book will be essential reading for all social and political scientists concerned with the processes through which the lived experiences of citizenship are being shaped and transformed in the first quarter of the twenty first century.
Susan Condor,Emeritus Professor of Social Psychology, Loughborough University, UK
ISBN: 9781032847535
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258 pages