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Social Representations for the Anthropocene: Latin American Perspectives

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Editors:
  1. Clarilza Prado de Sousa

    1. Post Graduate Program in Education Psychology/Post Graduate Program in Professional Education: Training of Trainers, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), São Paulo, Brazil

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  2. Serena Eréndira Serrano Oswald

    1. Regional Multidisciplinary Research Centre (CRIM), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Cuernavaca, Mexico

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  • Addresses the relevance of Social Representations Theory for the Anthropocene
  • Contributes to the Social Representations Theory in Latin America
  • Presents innovative research and commentaries by established researchers in the field
  • Various disciplines in the social sciences and humanities will benefit from this multidisciplinary book

Part of the book series: The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science (APESS, volume 32)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Building a Sand String: Social Representations for the Anthropocene

    • Serena Eréndira Serrano Oswald, Clarilza Prado de Sousa
    Pages 1-32

  3. Social Representations and History: Theoretical Problems

    • Lúcia Villas Bôas
    Pages 33-51

  4. Social Representations in the Study of Disaster Risk in the Municipality of Piedecuesta, Santander (Colombia): The Social Cognitive Dimension

    • Deysi Ofelmina Jerez-Ramírez
    Pages 53-86

  5. Confluences between Social Representations Theory and the Psychology of Active Minorities

    • Aline Reis Calvo Hernandez
    Pages 87-107

  6. Relationships between Beliefs and Social Representations: A Brief Theoretical Reflection

    • Renata Lira dos Santos Aléssio
    Pages 109-123

  7. Social Representations of Justice as Developing Structures: Sociogenesis and Ontogenesis

    • Alicia Barreiro
    Pages 125-144

  8. Common Sense in Gramsci’s and Moscovici’s Writings: Inspiration, Subversion and Revolution in Sociopolitical and Scientific Fields

    • Suzzana Alice Lima Almeida
    Pages 145-168

  9. Diffusion, Propaganda and Propagation: The Actuality of the Construct

    • Claudomilson Fernandes Braga
    Pages 169-181

  10. The Figurative Core of Social Representations and Figures of Thought

    • Rita de Cássia Pereira Lima
    Pages 183-203

  11. “The Tradition Must Carry On”: Representations and Social Practices of Gender and Ethnicity among Members of a Gypsy Group in a Brazilian Region

    • Mariana Bonomo, Sabrine Mantuan dos Santos Coutinho
    Pages 205-225

  12. The Gendered Medicalized Body, Social Representations, and Symbolic Violence: Experiences of Brazilian Women with Artificial Contraceptive Methods

    • Adriane Roso
    Pages 227-252

  13. Social Representations Theory in the Field of Nursing: Professional Autonomy, Vulnerability and Spirituality/Religiosity as Representational Objects

    • Antonio Marcos Tosoli Gomes
    Pages 253-279

  14. Children, Multiple Ordinations of Reality and Social Representations: Dialogues from Lévy-Bruhl

    • Daniela B.S. Freire Andrade
    Pages 281-293

  15. The Contribution of Social Representations Theory to Science Education

    • Alcina Maria Testa Braz da Silva
    Pages 295-310

  16. Possible Dialogues Between Social Representations and Educational Policies: The Dilemma of Data Analysis

    • Romilda Teodora Ens
    Pages 311-324

  17. Social Representations of Violence among Public School Students

    • Andréia Isabel Giacomozzi, Amanda Castro, Andrea Barbará da Silva Bousfield, Priscila Pereira Nunes, Marlon Xavier
    Pages 325-337

  18. Quality School Education from the Perspective of Young Students: What Is the Future?

    • Sandra Lúcia Ferreira
    Pages 339-355

  19. Social Representations in Motion: Concept Construction on Changing Subjects and Contexts

    • Cristiene Adriana Silva Carvalho, Luiz Paulo Ribeiro
    Pages 357-374

  20. Social Representations: A Bet on Social Change

    • Mireya Lozada, Adelina Novaes
    Pages 375-383
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The Anthropocene has become a field of studies in which the influence of human activity on the Earth System and nature is both the main threat and the potential solution. Social Representations Theory has been evolving since the 1960s.It links knowledge and practice in everyday life and is an effective way to deal with systemic crises based on common sense. This book assembles key contributions by Latin American scholars working with social representations in the social sciences that are of conceptual relevance to the study of the Anthropocene and that investigate the societal consequences of complex interrelations between common sense and topics of global relevance, such asthe contradictions of sustainable development, the construction of risks beyond risk-perception, health, negotiation and governance in the field of education, gender equality, the usefulness of longitudinal and systemic ethnography and case studies, and agency and the link between inequality, crises and risk society in the context of COVID-19, presenting theoretical and methodological innovations fromSpanish, Portuguese and Frenchresearchthat have rarely been available in English. 


• This is the first book to address the relevance of Social Representations Theory for the Anthropocene as a societal era
• It presents the multidisciplinary scope of Social Representations
• This book covers emerging research contributions in Social Representations Theory from Latin America
• This book presents innovative research and commentaries by established researchers in the field
• This multidisciplinary book should be in the libraries of many disciplines in the social sciences and humanities 


Editors and Affiliations

  • Post Graduate Program in Education Psychology/Post Graduate Program in Professional Education: Training of Trainers, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), São Paulo, Brazil

    Clarilza Prado de Sousa

  • Regional Multidisciplinary Research Centre (CRIM), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Cuernavaca, Mexico

    Serena Eréndira Serrano Oswald

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