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Book SynopsisJaan Valsiner has made numerous contributions to the development of psychology over the last 40 years. He is internationally recognized as a leader and innovator within both developmental psychology and cultural psychology, and has received numerous prizes for his work: the Alexander von Humboldt prize, the Hans Killian prize, and the Outstanding International Psychologist Award from the American Psychological Association. Having taught at Universities in Europe, Asia and north and south America, he is currently Niels Bohr professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. This book is the first to discuss in detail the different sides of Valsiner’s thought, including developmental science, semiotic mediation, cultural transmission, aesthetics, globalization of science, epistemology, methodology and the history of ideas. The book provides an overview, evaluation and extension of Valsiner’s key ideas for the construction of a dynamic cultural psychology, written by his former students and colleagues from around the world.
Table of Contents1. Introduction—Brady Wagoner, Bo Allesøe Christiansen, Carolin Demuth
Part I. Rethinking the History of Psychology
2. Valsiner and van der Veer: A case of intellectual interdependency—Rene van der Veer
3. Jaan Valsiner: A Ganzheitspsychologist?—Rainer Diriwächter
4. The Self inside Us: Biologism, internalization, quantification and science—Martin Dege
5. Rising up to humanity: Towards a cultural psychology of Bildung—Svend Brinkmann
Part II. Developmental Science in the Making
6. The dynamics of agency and context in human development: Holism revisited—Nancy Budwig
7. Forever feeding forward—Tania Zittoun
8. The construction of generalized knowledge: First essay on abbreviation—Maria C.D.P. Lyra
9. The concept of Irreversible Time—Dany Boulanger
10. The trajectory of Jaan Valsiner’s Thought— James Wertsch
11. The bounded indeterminancy of tradition— Lívia Mathias Simão
Part III. The Semiotic Mind
14. A stroll through the birthplace of signs—Carlos Cornejo
15. Expansive and restrictive semiosis—Alex Gillespie
16. Hypergeneralized affective-semiotic fields: The generative power of a construct—Angela Branco
17. Unfolding semiosis: The field of mediated activity— Maria-Cécile Bertau
Part IV. Cultural Transmission and Transformation
12. Culture as a creative process—Vlad Glaveanu
13. The Carnivalesque pedagogy: Jaan as a pedagogist?!—Kyoko Murakami
14. Overcoming the binary logic of biculturalism—Elke Murdock
15. Sense of belonging in the context of migration—Isabel Albert & Stephanie Barros
16. Political plasticity and culture—Fathali M. Moghaddam
V. Aesthetics in Culture and Mind
23. Aesthetic Notes on Ornamented Lives— Robert Innis
24. Pleromatization: Bringing psychology closer to human experience—Hroar Klempe & Olga Lehman
25. The Vorbild of Donor Portraits and Cultural Psychology— Lucas Mazur
26. Poetic Genesis: Intimacy as a special form of boundary dynamics—Emily Abbey & Ana Cecilia Bastos
27. The fabric of (faked) behaviors shows in theater rehearsals— Alberto Rosa
VI. Psychology as a Global Science
27. Local ideas for a global science— Nandita Chaudhary
28. From cross-cultural psychology towards a collective culture of general psychology— Pernille Hviid & Jacob Waag-Villadsen
29. The relationalism of Jaan Valsiner —Danilo Silva Guimarães
30. Jaan Valsiner, creator of opportunities for cultural ecology—Xiaowen Li, Shuangshuang Xu and Aruna Wu
VII. Epistemological Foundations of Psychology
33. The science of psyche: Jaan Valsiner’s way at the frontiers—Aaro Toomela
34. Ideas and challenges for cultural psychology— Sergio Salvatore
35. Action-theoretical cultural psychology and the decentred subject— Jürgen Straub
36. Valsiner on Facts: making cultural practices explicit—Bo A. Christensen
37. Bridging: Some personal reflections— Jens Mammen
VIII. Innovating Methodology
38. Method as Process— Mariann Märtsin
39. Catalysis in cultural psychology: Its past and future— Zack Beckstead
40. The Catalytic powers of psychoanalytic thought models—Erik Stänicke and Tobias Lindstad
41. Interpersonal psychoanalysis as a culturally unique field— Philip Rosenbaum
42. From ‘I-AM’ to ‘WE-AM’ predicates— Kevin Carriere
43. Trajectory equifinality approach— Tatsuya Sato, Teppei Tsuchimoto, Yasuda Yuko, and Ayae Kido
IX. Concluding Comments
43. Jaan Valsiner
