Sandra Jovchelovitch
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 658100 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sandra Jovchelovitch |
| NOMBRES | Sandra |
| APELLIDO | Jovchelovitch |
| FIRMA | JOVCHELOVITCH S |
| AFILIACIONES | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0073-2792 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 317 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Resisting epistemic violence in global mental health
Background While there is consensus that local knowledge is important to build better mental health responses, integration of this knowledge into mental health services remains a work in progress. In this paper, we explore local understandings of mental health, mental illness, well-being and emotional distress building dialogical spaces that enable community perspectives to inform academic knowledge and health systems . Methods We identified loca…
The long hard road of reconciliation
The Colombian peace accords of 2016 involved a formal commitment to peace between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia‐People's Army (FARC‐EP in Spanish) and the national government. Despite this advance, societal reconciliation and sustainable peace remain key challenges. Through a longitudinal qualitative design, we investigate the encounter between former guerrilla members and urban university students in a community‐based educational sp…
Grandmothers
A growing body of evidence highlights that maternal and child nutrition programmes need to extend beyond the mother-child dyad by adopting a family systems approach, particularly in the Global South. Guided by a sociocultural and community psychology understanding of health, the paper explores factors identifying grandmothers as central resources for nutrition programmes. The study was conducted in a Colombian urban periphery applying a qualitati…
Elite stigmatization of the unemployed
This paper uses a multi-methods approach to explore the social psychological construction of stigma towards the unemployed. Study 1a uses thematic analysis to explore frames used by political elites in speeches at U.K. national party conferences between 1996 and 2016 (n = 43); in study 1b, we track the usage of these frames in six national newspapers (n = 167,723 articles) over the same period showing an increase in the use of negative frames. St…
Imagination and mobility in the city
We focus on the notion of borders to explore how mobility and immobility in the city affect the relationship between human development and urban culture. We define borders as a relational space made of territoriality, representations and different possibilities of mobility and immobility. Drawing on research in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, we suggest a systematic approach to the analysis of borders and identify the socio-institutional, spatial …
Uma Abordagem Sociogenética do Núcleo Central das Representações Sociais
O artigo visa demonstrar como o tempo histórico e a comunicação se inscrevem na organização interna das representações sociais. Para tal, apresenta uma discussão sobre o papel do núcleo central das representações nos processos de continuidade e mudança em ideias e esferas públicas. Estudos de Jean-Claude Abric sobre a estrutura interna dos campos representacionais contribuem para a proposição de um desenvolvimento da teoria do núcleo central que …
Arabs in Europe
The recent wave of immigration across European countries has precipitated an unprecedented political crisis in many Western countries. This is compounded by the fact that the large majority of these migrants originate from Arab countries. Research has demonstrated that Arabs are devalued relative to other socioethnic groups. The present study sought to investigate representations of Arabs and their integration. Twenty-one interviews conducted in …
Partnerships as knowledge encounters
In this article, we present a psychosocial theory of partnership, illustrated with case studies from Cambodia and Brazil. Partnerships are conceptualised as encounters with the knowledge of self and others, entailing processes of representation and communication between all stakeholders involved, and shaped by institutional and sociocultural contexts. We argue that partnership is an evolving practice that requires critical reflection and the crea…
Constructing public worlds
This paper explores how children in different cultures and socio-economic contexts develop representations about the public sphere. It addresses how contexts of representation shape the form and content of children’s thinking while expressing the two-way transactions between the child and their social world. Drawings by children from two age groups (seven- and 10-year-olds) and two socio-economic milieus (affluent and deprived), in four cultures …
Insights from Societal Psychology
In this paper we demonstrate that societal psychology makes a unique contribution to the study of change through its focus on the 'contextual politics' of change, examining the different interests at stake within any social context. Societal psychology explores the contexts which promote or inhibit social and societal change and can be seen as a bridge between social and political psychology. It focuses on how the context shapes the ways in which…
Narrative, Memory and Social Representations
The Rehabilitation of Common Sense
In Psychoanalysis, its image and its public (PIP) Moscovici introduced the theory of social representations and took further the project of rehabilitating common sense. In this paper I examine this project through a consideration of the problem of cognitive polyphasia, and the continuity and discontinuity between different systems of knowing. Focusing on the relations between science and common sense. I ask why, despite considerable evidence to t…
Knowledge in Context
This book explores the relationship between knowledge and context through a novel analysis of processes of representation. Sandra Jovchelovitch argues that representation, a social psychological construct relating self, other and object-world, is at the basis of all knowledge. Understanding its genesis and actualisation in individual and social life explains what ties knowledge to persons, communities and cultures. It is through representation th…
Knowledge in context
"This book explores the relationship between knowledge and context through a novel analysis of processes of representation. Sandra Jovchelovitch argues that it is through representation that we can appreciate the diversity of knowledge and it is representation that explains what links knowledge to persons, communities and cultures." "Drawing on dialogues between psychology, sociology and anthropology, Jovchelovitch explores the dominant assumptio…
La fonction symbolique et la construction des représentations
Alors que la plupart des recherches sur la psychologie sociale des représentations soulignent les aspects symboliques et communicationnels de ces dernières, une tendance subsiste qui consiste à concevoir les processus représentationnels en termes uniquement cognitifs comme si l’essentiel d’une représentation était articulé à une tentative de re-présenter le monde environnant. L’accent mis sur cette fonction des représentations, qui décalquerait e…
Psicologia social, saber, comunidade e cultura
Este trabalho apresenta uma reflexão sobre as relações entre saber, comunidade e cultura desde uma perspectiva psicossocial. Eu parto do conceito de representação e discuto a relação fundamental entre processo representacional e contexto, entendido como o lugar histórico, social, simbólico e cultural de uma comunidade humana. Entender o processo representacional é importante porque ele ocupa um lugar central no processo de constituição dos sabere…
Participation, Health and the Development of Community Resources in Southern Brazil
This article seeks to contribute to the debate about participation and health by presenting a framework for psychosocial interventions in primary health care. It highlights the social psychological dimensions of participation and the role it plays in improving conditions of living and thus health. The Freirean concepts of dialogue, recognition and conscientization, combined with understanding of local knowledge are suggested as guiding notions fo…
Narrative Interviewing
Health, community and development
Health, community and development
Health, community and development
The concept of 'community participation' plays a central role in policies and interventions seeking to reduce health inequalities. This paper seeks to contribute to debates about the role of participation in health by suggesting how social psychological concepts can add to the theorisation of participation. It criticises traditional concepts of development and introduces some of the challenged that are present for development and community theori…
Social representations of health and illness
This paper reports results from a qualitative study on social representations of health and illness among the Chinese community in England. It is assumed that representations of health and illness are grounded in cultural frameworks and are constructed through communication, social interaction and the practices of daily life. Our findings show that in spite of differences related to age and degrees of acculturation, Chinese people in England shar…
Theory and Method of Social Representations
This paper gives an overview of social representation theory, definitions of the key terms and of the social processes leading to a representation and to social identity. Six empirical studies are presented and details of their methods and findings are given to illustrate this social psychological approach. These studies are about the ontogenesis of gender, the public sphere in Brazil, madness on British television, images of androgyny in Switzer…
Health and identity
Social representations of health and illness are deeply intertwined with issues of cultural identity. People think of health and illness in relation to their social environment and cultural background. In this paper, we report findings of a study on representations of health among the Chinese community in England. Using focus groups and in-depth interviews with experts and lay members of the Chinese community, we found a hybrid representation whi…
Os contextos do saber
Theory and Method of Social Representations
This paper gives an overview of social representation theory, definitions of the key terms and of the social processes leading to a representation and to social identity. Six empirical studies are presented and details of their methods and findings are given to illustrate this social psychological approach. These studies are about the ontogenesis of gender, the public sphere in Brazil, madness on British television, images of androgyny in Switzer…
In Defence of Representations
The Rehabilitation of Common Sense
In Psychoanalysis, its image and its public (PIP) Moscovici introduced the theory of social representations and took further the project of rehabilitating common sense. In this paper I examine this project through a consideration of the problem of cognitive polyphasia, and the continuity and discontinuity between different systems of knowing. Focusing on the relations between science and common sense. I ask why, despite considerable evidence to t…
Narrative, Memory and Social Representations
Partnerships as knowledge encounters
In this article, we present a psychosocial theory of partnership, illustrated with case studies from Cambodia and Brazil. Partnerships are conceptualised as encounters with the knowledge of self and others, entailing processes of representation and communication between all stakeholders involved, and shaped by institutional and sociocultural contexts. We argue that partnership is an evolving practice that requires critical reflection and the crea…
Participation, Health and the Development of Community Resources in Southern Brazil
This article seeks to contribute to the debate about participation and health by presenting a framework for psychosocial interventions in primary health care. It highlights the social psychological dimensions of participation and the role it plays in improving conditions of living and thus health. The Freirean concepts of dialogue, recognition and conscientization, combined with understanding of local knowledge are suggested as guiding notions fo…
Insights from Societal Psychology
In this paper we demonstrate that societal psychology makes a unique contribution to the study of change through its focus on the 'contextual politics' of change, examining the different interests at stake within any social context. Societal psychology explores the contexts which promote or inhibit social and societal change and can be seen as a bridge between social and political psychology. It focuses on how the context shapes the ways in which…
Psicologia social, saber, comunidade e cultura
Este trabalho apresenta uma reflexão sobre as relações entre saber, comunidade e cultura desde uma perspectiva psicossocial. Eu parto do conceito de representação e discuto a relação fundamental entre processo representacional e contexto, entendido como o lugar histórico, social, simbólico e cultural de uma comunidade humana. Entender o processo representacional é importante porque ele ocupa um lugar central no processo de constituição dos sabere…
Social Representations in and of the Public Sphere
Health and identity
Social representations of health and illness are deeply intertwined with issues of cultural identity. People think of health and illness in relation to their social environment and cultural background. In this paper, we report findings of a study on representations of health among the Chinese community in England. Using focus groups and in-depth interviews with experts and lay members of the Chinese community, we found a hybrid representation whi…
Elite stigmatization of the unemployed
This paper uses a multi-methods approach to explore the social psychological construction of stigma towards the unemployed. Study 1a uses thematic analysis to explore frames used by political elites in speeches at U.K. national party conferences between 1996 and 2016 (n = 43); in study 1b, we track the usage of these frames in six national newspapers (n = 167,723 articles) over the same period showing an increase in the use of negative frames. St…
Arabs in Europe
The recent wave of immigration across European countries has precipitated an unprecedented political crisis in many Western countries. This is compounded by the fact that the large majority of these migrants originate from Arab countries. Research has demonstrated that Arabs are devalued relative to other socioethnic groups. The present study sought to investigate representations of Arabs and their integration. Twenty-one interviews conducted in …
The long hard road of reconciliation
The Colombian peace accords of 2016 involved a formal commitment to peace between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia‐People's Army (FARC‐EP in Spanish) and the national government. Despite this advance, societal reconciliation and sustainable peace remain key challenges. Through a longitudinal qualitative design, we investigate the encounter between former guerrilla members and urban university students in a community‐based educational sp…
La fonction symbolique et la construction des représentations
Alors que la plupart des recherches sur la psychologie sociale des représentations soulignent les aspects symboliques et communicationnels de ces dernières, une tendance subsiste qui consiste à concevoir les processus représentationnels en termes uniquement cognitifs comme si l’essentiel d’une représentation était articulé à une tentative de re-présenter le monde environnant. L’accent mis sur cette fonction des représentations, qui décalquerait e…
Social Representations in and of the Public Sphere
In Defence of Representations
Health and identity
Social representations of health and illness are deeply intertwined with issues of cultural identity. People think of health and illness in relation to their social environment and cultural background. In this paper, we report findings of a study on representations of health among the Chinese community in England. Using focus groups and in-depth interviews with experts and lay members of the Chinese community, we found a hybrid representation whi…
Social representations of health and illness
This paper reports results from a qualitative study on social representations of health and illness among the Chinese community in England. It is assumed that representations of health and illness are grounded in cultural frameworks and are constructed through communication, social interaction and the practices of daily life. Our findings show that in spite of differences related to age and degrees of acculturation, Chinese people in England shar…
Theory and Method of Social Representations
This paper gives an overview of social representation theory, definitions of the key terms and of the social processes leading to a representation and to social identity. Six empirical studies are presented and details of their methods and findings are given to illustrate this social psychological approach. These studies are about the ontogenesis of gender, the public sphere in Brazil, madness on British television, images of androgyny in Switzer…
Narrative Interviewing
Health, community and development
Health, community and development
Health, community and development
The concept of 'community participation' plays a central role in policies and interventions seeking to reduce health inequalities. This paper seeks to contribute to debates about the role of participation in health by suggesting how social psychological concepts can add to the theorisation of participation. It criticises traditional concepts of development and introduces some of the challenged that are present for development and community theori…
Psicologia social, saber, comunidade e cultura
Este trabalho apresenta uma reflexão sobre as relações entre saber, comunidade e cultura desde uma perspectiva psicossocial. Eu parto do conceito de representação e discuto a relação fundamental entre processo representacional e contexto, entendido como o lugar histórico, social, simbólico e cultural de uma comunidade humana. Entender o processo representacional é importante porque ele ocupa um lugar central no processo de constituição dos sabere…
Participation, Health and the Development of Community Resources in Southern Brazil
This article seeks to contribute to the debate about participation and health by presenting a framework for psychosocial interventions in primary health care. It highlights the social psychological dimensions of participation and the role it plays in improving conditions of living and thus health. The Freirean concepts of dialogue, recognition and conscientization, combined with understanding of local knowledge are suggested as guiding notions fo…
La fonction symbolique et la construction des représentations
Alors que la plupart des recherches sur la psychologie sociale des représentations soulignent les aspects symboliques et communicationnels de ces dernières, une tendance subsiste qui consiste à concevoir les processus représentationnels en termes uniquement cognitifs comme si l’essentiel d’une représentation était articulé à une tentative de re-présenter le monde environnant. L’accent mis sur cette fonction des représentations, qui décalquerait e…
Knowledge in Context
This book explores the relationship between knowledge and context through a novel analysis of processes of representation. Sandra Jovchelovitch argues that representation, a social psychological construct relating self, other and object-world, is at the basis of all knowledge. Understanding its genesis and actualisation in individual and social life explains what ties knowledge to persons, communities and cultures. It is through representation th…
Knowledge in context
"This book explores the relationship between knowledge and context through a novel analysis of processes of representation. Sandra Jovchelovitch argues that it is through representation that we can appreciate the diversity of knowledge and it is representation that explains what links knowledge to persons, communities and cultures." "Drawing on dialogues between psychology, sociology and anthropology, Jovchelovitch explores the dominant assumptio…
The Rehabilitation of Common Sense
In Psychoanalysis, its image and its public (PIP) Moscovici introduced the theory of social representations and took further the project of rehabilitating common sense. In this paper I examine this project through a consideration of the problem of cognitive polyphasia, and the continuity and discontinuity between different systems of knowing. Focusing on the relations between science and common sense. I ask why, despite considerable evidence to t…
Narrative, Memory and Social Representations
Constructing public worlds
This paper explores how children in different cultures and socio-economic contexts develop representations about the public sphere. It addresses how contexts of representation shape the form and content of children’s thinking while expressing the two-way transactions between the child and their social world. Drawings by children from two age groups (seven- and 10-year-olds) and two socio-economic milieus (affluent and deprived), in four cultures …
Insights from Societal Psychology
In this paper we demonstrate that societal psychology makes a unique contribution to the study of change through its focus on the 'contextual politics' of change, examining the different interests at stake within any social context. Societal psychology explores the contexts which promote or inhibit social and societal change and can be seen as a bridge between social and political psychology. It focuses on how the context shapes the ways in which…
Partnerships as knowledge encounters
In this article, we present a psychosocial theory of partnership, illustrated with case studies from Cambodia and Brazil. Partnerships are conceptualised as encounters with the knowledge of self and others, entailing processes of representation and communication between all stakeholders involved, and shaped by institutional and sociocultural contexts. We argue that partnership is an evolving practice that requires critical reflection and the crea…
Arabs in Europe
The recent wave of immigration across European countries has precipitated an unprecedented political crisis in many Western countries. This is compounded by the fact that the large majority of these migrants originate from Arab countries. Research has demonstrated that Arabs are devalued relative to other socioethnic groups. The present study sought to investigate representations of Arabs and their integration. Twenty-one interviews conducted in …
Imagination and mobility in the city
We focus on the notion of borders to explore how mobility and immobility in the city affect the relationship between human development and urban culture. We define borders as a relational space made of territoriality, representations and different possibilities of mobility and immobility. Drawing on research in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, we suggest a systematic approach to the analysis of borders and identify the socio-institutional, spatial …
Uma Abordagem Sociogenética do Núcleo Central das Representações Sociais
O artigo visa demonstrar como o tempo histórico e a comunicação se inscrevem na organização interna das representações sociais. Para tal, apresenta uma discussão sobre o papel do núcleo central das representações nos processos de continuidade e mudança em ideias e esferas públicas. Estudos de Jean-Claude Abric sobre a estrutura interna dos campos representacionais contribuem para a proposição de um desenvolvimento da teoria do núcleo central que …
Grandmothers
A growing body of evidence highlights that maternal and child nutrition programmes need to extend beyond the mother-child dyad by adopting a family systems approach, particularly in the Global South. Guided by a sociocultural and community psychology understanding of health, the paper explores factors identifying grandmothers as central resources for nutrition programmes. The study was conducted in a Colombian urban periphery applying a qualitati…
Elite stigmatization of the unemployed
This paper uses a multi-methods approach to explore the social psychological construction of stigma towards the unemployed. Study 1a uses thematic analysis to explore frames used by political elites in speeches at U.K. national party conferences between 1996 and 2016 (n = 43); in study 1b, we track the usage of these frames in six national newspapers (n = 167,723 articles) over the same period showing an increase in the use of negative frames. St…
Os contextos do saber
Sociology (18 obras) · Social Representations and Identity (17 obras) · Political science (15 obras) · Psychology (15 obras) · Community Health and Development (11 obras) · Politics (8 obras) · Social Psychology (7 obras) · Social science (7 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras) · Cultural Differences and Values (5 obras)