Discourse, Peace, and Conflict: Discursive Psychology Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Stephen Gibson

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 341
• Series: Peace Psychology Book Series
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xi
Discursive Psychology and Peace Psychology (Stephen Gibson)....Pages 1-25
Front Matter ....Pages 27-27
How to Increase Participation in a Conflict Resolution Process: Insights from Discursive Psychology (Elizabeth Stokoe)....Pages 29-47
Discursive Psychology and Domestic Violence (Alison J. Towns, Peter J. Adams)....Pages 49-66
The American Gun Control Debate: A Discursive Analysis (Simon Goodman, Bethany Perry)....Pages 67-82
Disloyal, Deluded, Dangerous: How Supporters of Violence or Separatism Discredit Their Political Opponents (W. Mick L. Finlay)....Pages 83-98
Front Matter ....Pages 99-99
Constructing Peace and Violence in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict (Chris McVittie, Rahul Sambaraju)....Pages 101-118
In the Shadow of the Other: Arguments About the First Gaza War in British Conservative Editorials (Dávid Kaposi)....Pages 119-132
The Dynamics of ‘Pacifism’ and ‘Warmongering’: The Denial of Stake in Debates Preceding the 2003 Invasion of Iraq (Joseph Burridge)....Pages 133-148
Revisiting the Past: A Discursive Psychological Approach to Anglo-Japanese Reconciliation Over the Second World War (Kyoko Murakami)....Pages 149-166
Front Matter ....Pages 167-167
Discursive Psychological Research on Refugees (Steve Kirkwood, Simon Goodman)....Pages 169-185
Unlawful, Un-cooperative and Unwanted: The Dehumanization of Asylum Seekers in the Australian Newsprint Media (Martha Augoustinos, Clemence Due, Peta Callaghan)....Pages 187-204
Constructing the “Refugee Crisis” in Greece: A Critical Discursive Social Psychological Analysis (Lia Figgou, Martina Sourvinou, Dimitra Anagnostopoulou)....Pages 205-222
Citizenship, Social Injustice and the Quest for a Critical Social Psychology of Peace: Majority Greek and Immigrant Discourses on a New Migration Law in Greece (Antonis Sapountzis, Maria Xenitidou)....Pages 223-242
Front Matter ....Pages 243-243
Discursive Psychology and Social Practices of Avoidance (Cristian Tileagă)....Pages 245-260
Structure and Agency in Peace Psychology: Temporality as Mediating Gesture Between Abstract and Concrete Intervention (Kevin McKenzie)....Pages 261-283
The Emotional and Political Power of Images of Suffering: Discursive Psychology and the Study of Visual Rhetoric (Jovan Byford)....Pages 285-302
Charlie Hebdo and the Prophet Muhammad: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Peace and Violence in a Satirical Cartoon (Laura Kilby, Henry Lennon)....Pages 303-321
Concluding Remarks: Developing a Critical Discursive Peace Psychology (Stephen Gibson)....Pages 323-330
Back Matter ....Pages 331-339

✦ Subjects

Psychology; Personality and Social Psychology; Community and Environmental Psychology; Discourse Analysis