Dr. Séamus Power on Field Social Psychology

The George & Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights, and Conflict Prevention is honored to host Dr. Séamus Power, Associate Professor of cultural psychology at the University of Copenhagen, for his guest lecture presentation “Field Social Psychology: Processes of World-Making.”

I introduce field social psychology as a conceptual and methodological approach aimed at re-expanding the dominant social psychological paradigm, and consequently, as a way to think of psychology as ‘world-making.’ I illustrate the utility of this approach through two examples from one line of my research concerned with social movements. The first example is based on prolonged field work in Ireland where I examined dynamics of (non)protest during an economic recession and subsequent recovery. The second example, with colleagues from Oslo, used field social psychology to understand the motivations of protesting youth in Norway who were concerned with political inaction to mitigate climate change. I end by discussing the implications of field social psychology and the possibilities of conceptualizing social psychology as, and for, world-making.

This event is free and open to all. Please use the form below to reserve a space; for additional information contact schaeffercenteraup.edu