Social Representations

Lo Monaco, G., Lheureux, F., Chianèse, L., Codaccioni, C., Halimi-Falkowicz, S., & Cano, P. (2009). Contexte d’expression, statut social des intervenants de santé et production d’un discours normatif : le cas de l’alcool et des jeunes. Pratiques psychologiques, 15(3), 367-386.

by Gregory Lo Monaco

Lo Monaco, G., & Guimelli, C. (2008). Exprimer ses opinions : entre menace identitaire, présentation de soi et coping. In S. Berjot et B. Paty (Eds.), Stress, Santé et Société Vol. 4 : Stress et faire-face aux menaces de l’identité et du soi (pp. 153-182). Reims : Presses Universitaires de Reims.

by Gregory Lo Monaco

Lheureux, F., & Lo Monaco, G. (2011). Hiérarchie intra-noyau et négociabilité des éléments centraux d’une représentation sociale. Les Cahiers Internationaux de Psychologie Sociale, 91, 217-232.

by Gregory Lo Monaco

Demarque, C., Lo Monaco, G., Apostolidis, T., & Guimelli, C. (in press). Implication personnelle et extension temporelle future : Quelques éléments pour une contextualisation du rapport au temps. Les Cahiers Internationaux de Psychologie Sociale.

by Gregory Lo Monaco

Lo Monaco, G., Guimelli, C., Piermattéo, A., & Abric, J.-C. (in press). Social representations, questionnaire of characterization and correspondence factor analysis: a methodological contribution. The Spanish Journal of Psychology.

by Gregory Lo Monaco

Lo Monaco, G., Guimelli, C., Piermattéo, A., & Abric, J.-C. (in press). Social representations, questionnaire of characterization and correspondence factor analysis: a methodological contribution. The Spanish Journal of Psychology.

by Gregory Lo Monaco

Demarque, C., Lo Monaco, G., Apostolidis, T., & Guimelli, C. (in press). Implication personnelle et extension temporelle future : Quelques éléments pour une contextualisation du rapport au temps. Les Cahiers Internationaux de Psychologie Sociale.

by Gregory Lo Monaco

Lheureux, F., & Lo Monaco, G. (2011). Hiérarchie intra-noyau et négociabilité des éléments centraux d’une représentation sociale. Les Cahiers Internationaux de Psychologie Sociale, 91, 217-232.

by Gregory Lo Monaco

Exporting anti-Zionism: The delegitimization of Israel in the Iranian Press

by Rusi Jaspal

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Jaspal, R. (under review). Exporting anti-Zionism: The delegitimization of Israel in the Iranian Press. Submitted to Israel Studies.

Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Anti-Zionism has remained an important ideological building-block of the Islamic... more Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Anti-Zionism has remained an important ideological building-block of the Islamic Republic of Iran. This paper examines the manifestation of anti-Zionism in the English-language Iranian Press in order to elucidate how this ideology is ‘exported’ to an international readership. The paper presents the results of an empirical study of two leading English-language Iranian newspapers: The Tehran Times and Press TV. The study uses critical discourse analysis and draws upon tenets of Social Representations Theory and the notion of Delegitimization from social psychology. The following themes are outlined: (i) “Problematizing Israel’s right to exist”; (ii) “Unveiling the global Zionist conspiracy”; and (iii) “Leading the global anti-Zionism – the declining ‘Zionist regime’”. Both anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic representations are observable in the corpus. The paper identifies three key components of the delegitimization process in textual representations of Israel, and discusses possible implications of outgroup delegitimization for identity, emotion and action.

Keywords: media representations; Iran; Israel; anti-Zionism; prejudice; social representations theory; critical discourse analysis; qualitative; social psychology

Overcoming Brides and Grooms The Representation of Lesbian and Gay Rights in Spain

by Raquel (Lucas) Platero

Multiple Meanings of Gender Equality. A Critical Frame Analysis of Gender Policies in Europe. Edited by MIEKE VERLOO

Discourses of Women Scientists in Online Media: Towards New Gender Regimes

by Heather Mendick

Co-authored with Marie-Pierre Moreau and drawing on work funded by the UKRC

The under-representation of girls and women among those studying and working in science, engineering and technology... more The under-representation of girls and women among those studying and working in science, engineering and technology (SET) is a well-documented phenomenon. However, despite the widespread use of the internet in most Western societies, there is a dearth of research examining discourses of women scientists in online media. In this paper, we explore how the ‘gender regimes’ of online SET can be deemed transformative or, on the contrary, reproduce some of the most common clichés about men and women found in the wider ‘gender order’ (Connell, 1987). To do this, we explore in a systematic manner the construction of women and men in SET within 16 websites, with a particular focus on discourses of women in SET. We argue that the ‘gender regimes’ of these online SET spaces have failed to generate a more gender equal view of scientists. Yet, we also identify a variety of gender regimes across websites, both in terms of the numerical presence of women scientists and of the way they are represented, something which highlights the egalitarian potential of online media.

Imagining the mathematician: young people talking about popular representations of maths

by Heather Mendick

This paper was co-authored with Debbie Epstein and Marie-Pierre Moreau. This paper was published in Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education in 2010, volume 31, issue 1, pages 45-60. If your library subscribes then the hyperlink will take you to where you can access the paper. If not, then email me and I'll send you a copy.

This paper makes both a critical analysis of some popular cultural texts about mathematics and mathematicians, and... more This paper makes both a critical analysis of some popular cultural texts about mathematics and mathematicians, and explores the ways in which young people deploy the discourses produced in these texts. We argue that there are particular (and sometimes contradictory) meanings and discourses about mathematics that circulate in popular culture, that young people use these as resources in identity making as (non-)mathematicians, negotiating their meaning in ways that are not always predictable, and that their influence on young people is diffuse and nevertheless important. The paper discusses the discourses that prevail in some of the popular cultural images of mathematics and mathematicians that came up in our research. We show how mathematics is represented as a secret language, while mathematicians are often mad, mostly male and almost invariably white. We then explore how young people negotiate these discourses, positioning themselves in relation to mathematics. Here we draw attention to the fact that both those who continue with mathematics after it ceases to be compulsory and those who do not, deploy similar images of mathematics and mathematicians. What is different is how they respond to and negotiate these images.

Lauri on organ donation or how to teach the theory of social representations using a quality empirical study

by Claudine Provencher

Published in 'Papers on Social Representations' Volume 20, pages 35.1-35.10 (2011)

Cancer et relations interpersonnelles : une étude qualitative des représentations des patients

by Lionel Dany

Representing the 'Zionist Regime': Mass Communication of anti-Zionism in the English-language Iranian Press

by Rusi Jaspal

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Jaspal, R. (under review). Representing the 'Zionist Regime': Mass Communication of anti-Zionism in the English-language Iranian Press. Submitted to Mass Communication and Society.

Anti-Zionism constitutes an important ideological building-block of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI). This paper... more Anti-Zionism constitutes an important ideological building-block of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI). This paper provides insight into the mass communication of anti-Zionism in the English-language Iranian Press in order to examine how this ideology is ‘exported’ to an international readership. The paper presents the results of an empirical study of two leading English-language Iranian newspapers: The Tehran Times and Press TV. The study uses critical discourse analysis and draws upon tenets of Social Representations Theory from social psychology. The following discourses are discussed: (i) Resisting social representations of Israeli statehood; (ii) Constructing threat: The Zionist regime as a terrorist entity; and (iii) Responding to threat: Anti-Zionism as a religious duty for the Muslim Ummah. As a ‘mouth-piece’ of the IRI, these outlets adopt and encourage a fervently anti-Zionist stance by refusing to recognise the statehood and civilian population of Israel and by constructing the ‘Zionist regime’ as a terrorist threat which should be mitigated collectively by the Islamic Ummah. Implications are discussed.

Keywords: media representations; Iran; Israel; anti-Zionism; prejudice; social representations theory; critical discourse analysis; qualitative; social psychology

Connecting narrative and social representation theory in health research

by Michael Murray

Kinship, Property, and Identity: Noble Family Strategies in Late-Medieval Zeeland

by Arie van Steensel

Journal of Family History 37:2, 2012.

Images de mode, images de femmes : des représentations de la presse magazine féminine aux représentations d’un public féminin. Étude d’un message médiatique : stéréotypage de genre et mascarade.

by Justine MARILLONNET

Position de thèse.

Efeito das modalidades de resposta sobre a estruturação de uma representação social: o exemplo da representação dos estudos

by Lionel Dany

Arts Practice as Agency: The Right to Represent and Reinterpret Personal and Social Significance

by James Haywood Rolling, Jr.

Rolling, J. H. (2011). Arts practice as agency: The right to represent and reinterpret personal and social significance. Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education, 29, 11-24.

In this article, I reframe arts practice as agency, the right to represent and reinterpret personal and social... more In this article, I reframe arts practice as agency, the right to represent and reinterpret personal and social significance in a way that contributes a positive self-valuation. A positive self-valuation in turn becomes a berth for the beneficial habitus of the individual. Bourdieu (1990/1999) describes habitus as the locus of the capacity to generate reasonable, common sense behaviors that are beneficial to others. Arts practices are herein theorized as a stock of reasonable, common sense behaviors—making marks, making models, and making “special” aesthetic interventions that signal a person, object, artifact, action, event or phenomenon as uniquely valuable, sacred or life-sustaining. These are behaviors that human agents commonly and continually employ in response to social needs, causes, and the imperative to signify. Given the social significance of arts practice, there is also great potential in a broader application of arts education pedagogy as a force for social transformation. Brent Wilson (2005) sketches out a fundamentally democratic and transactional pedagogical framework that socially responsive and responsible educators can make use of in the cultivation of social justice, the ethical imagination, and the transformation of the systems that ill-define us.