New Journal: Social Practice / Psychological Theorizing
Social Practice/Psychological Theorizing - This new interdisciplinary and international online journal and forum, in English but based in Turkey, should interest critical psychologists. Its “editorial aspirations” make sense to me:
Social Practice / Psychological Theorizing is launched as a modest attempt to bring together, mediate and transform many diverse discourses across disciplines, most of which are rather isolated and dichotomized at present: the psychological and the social, theory and practice, micro and macro, mind and body, reason and emotion, the individual and the society, culture and nature, private and public, male and female, the I and the other, center and periphery, qualitative and quantitative, subjective and objective; plus many further dualities. SPPT aims at transcending these unproductive polarities by redefining not only the human, the psychological, the theoretical and the practical; but also the social, the political, the economical, the historical, the cultural, the philosophical, the critical and the methodological in modern accounts. Scholars from psychology and other disciplines, and also from wider (but non-academic, and non-western) intellectual culture, are invited to take part in the dialogues made possible by this forum, and to participate in developing and revising understandings of ontology, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics and praxis. It is with great pleasure that I invite you to participate in the process of defining Social Practice / Psychological Theorizing and developing a new and exciting space for debate and transformation. It remains to be seen if the effects of our joint effort will be in line with these aspirations.
