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The Self and Others Positioning Individuals and Groups in Personal, Political, and Cultural Contexts
Rom Harré, Fathali Moghaddam
ISBN: 0-275-97624-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97624-8
328 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 11/30/2003
List Price: $91.95 (UK Sterling Price: £63.95)
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Description: This volume focuses on relations between the self and other individuals, the self and groups, and the self and context. Leading scholars in the field of positioning theory present the newest developments from this field on human social relations. The discussion is international, multidisciplinary, and multi-method, aiming to achieve a more dynamic and powerful account of human social relations, and to break disciplinary boundaries.

Four features in this work are prominent. The book is culturally oriented and international. There is a push to move across disciplines, particularly across psychology and linguistics, and psychology and microsociology. There is a focus on language and social construction of the world through discourse. Finally, the book represents a multi-method approach that reflects discursive methods.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction by Rom Harré and Fathali M. Moghaddam
    The Self and Other Individuals
    Motivational Styles and Positioning Theory by Michael J. Apter
    Positioning and the Emotions by W. Gerrod Parrott
    "There You Are Man": Men's Use of Emotion Discourses and Their Negotiation of Emotional Subject Positions by Chris Walton, Adrian Coyle, and Evanthia Lyons
    The Unthinkable, the Unspeakable Self: Reflections on the Importance of Negative Emotional Boundaries for the Formation, Maintenance and Transformation of Identities by Ciarán Benson
    Malignant Positioning and the Predicament of People with Alzheimer's Disease by Steven R. Sabat
    Paranoia, Ambivalence, and Discursive Practices: Concepts of Position and Positioning in Psychoanalysis and Discursive Psychology by Margaret Wetherell
    The Self and Groups
    Positioning and Neighborhood Groups by Rom Harré and Nikki Slocum
    Sustaining Intergroup Harmony: An Analysis of the Kissinger Papers through Positioning Theory by Fathali M. Moghaddam, Elizabeth Hanley, and Rom Harré
    Categories as Actions: Positioning, Oppression, and Heteronormativity by Sue Wilkinson and Celia Kitzenger
    Gender Positioning: A 16th/17th Century Example Jennifer Lynn Adams and Rom Harré
    Positioning and Postcolonial Apologizing in Australia by Lucinda Aberdeen
    Applying Positioning Principles to a Theory of Collective Identity by Donald M. Taylor, Evelyne Bougie, and Julie Caouette
    The Self and Context
    Integration Speaking: Introducing Positioning Theory in Regional Integration Studies by Nikki Slocum and Luk Van Langenhove
    Culture-Clash and Patents: Positioning and Intellectual Property Rights by Fathali M. Moghaddam and Shayna Ginsburg
    Assessment of Quality Systems with Positioning Theory by Lionel Boxer
    Positioning the Subject in Body/Landscape Relations by Bronwyn Davies
    Concluding Chapter by Tim May
About the Author: ROM HARRÉ has been a longtime University Lecturer on the Philosophy of Science at Oxford University. He is also a Emeritus Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford, and has been visiting professor at universities around the world. He has authored or co-authored nearly 60 books.

FATHALI MOGHADDAM is Professor of Psychology at Georgetown University. He has also taught at McGill University and the National University of Iran, and has been a National Officer for a United Nations Development Program.
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