Making of Distinctions: Towards a Social Science of Inclusive Oppositions (Advances in Cultural Psychology: Constructing Human Development) - Softcover

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9781648023200: Making of Distinctions: Towards a Social Science of Inclusive Oppositions (Advances in Cultural Psychology: Constructing Human Development)
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ISBN 10: 1648023207 ISBN 13: 9781648023200
Publisher: Information Age Publishing, 2021

Synopsis

The volume revolves around the theme ‘inclusive oppositions’ in social sciences that address the issue of making of distinctions and create artificial dichotomies and dualistic view of society. It is set against the currents of systematic reduction of anthropodiversity and psychodiversity, which appears as a pathology of the current neo-liberalist and colonialist model of development. The volume is an attempt to overcome the colonial tendencies and forces to ‘standardize’ and ‘homogenize’ various categories and institutions in society by establishing structural relationality and intersectionality between the parts of the whole ecosystem where in the human and non-human intersect and interact.

The volume brings together a unique collaboration in the field of Cultural Psychology and offers the intellectual tools to grasp how a syncretic understanding of Identity and Culture unfolds, particularly in the key domain of gender. The chapters and commentaries uncover cultural dynamics and identity formation from a specific location, the region of Kerala in south-western India. The chapters and commentaries in this volume illustrates that Kerala is a cultural micro-cosmos, in which gender, identity, religion, ethnicity, caste, global market and tradition intersect to create complex and multiple subjects that do not fit in binary categorizations.

The compiled volume will be of great value to scholars, researchers and academicians in Social Sciences, particularly Cultural Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology, Social Work, Political Science, Philosophy, Anthropology and Economics.

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Publisher
Information Age Publishing
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1648023207
ISBN 13 
9781648023200
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
346
Editor
Palackal Antony, Chaudhary Nandita, Marsico Giuseppina

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