by Hüseyin Çakal (Editor), Shenel Husnu (Editor)
This
ground-breaking volume presents a unique contribution to the
development of social and political psychology both in Turkey and
globally, providing a complex analysis of intergroup relations in the
diverse Turkish context.
Turkey is home to a huge
variety of social, ethnic and religious groups and hosts the largest
number of refugees in the world. This diversity creates a unique
opportunity to understand how powerful forces of ethnicity, migration
and political ideology shape intergroup processes and intergroup
relations. Bringing together novel research findings, the international
collection of authors explore everything from disability, age and
gender, Kurdish and Armenian relations as "traditional minorities", the
recent emergence of a "new minority" of Syrian refugees and Turkey’s
complex political history. The theories and paradigms considered in the
book – social identity, intergroup contact, integrated threat, social
representations – are leading approaches in social and political
psychology, but the research presented tests these approaches in the
context of a very diverse and dynamic non-WEIRD (Western, Educated,
Industrialized, Rich and Democratic) society, with the goal of
contributing toward the development of a more intercultural and
democratic social and political psychology.
Bringing
together cutting-edge research and providing important insights into
the psychological underpinnings of a singular societal situation from a
variety of perspectives, this book is essential reading for students
studying the psychology, politics and social science of intergroup
relations, as well as practitioners interested in conflict resolution.
