European / International Joint Ph.D. in
Social Representation and Communication

Social Representations and Politics - intergroup relations, social movements and active minorities

  • VII.1. Social Representations and Politics: from the crisis of ideologies to the personalization of politics; culture of protest and politicization of everyday life; the construction of local democracy in cross-national comparison; the social representation of political corruption, responsibility and trust in different cultural contexts; political trust and political participation amongst young people from ethnic minorities; knowledge production and transfer: the case of Soviet influence on Chinese psychology: Aix-Marseille University – France; University of Basque Country - Spain; University “A.I. Cuza” Iasi – Romania; University of Lausanne – Switzerland; Masaryk University, Brno - Czech Republic; Sapienza University of Rome – Italy; CUNY, New York - USA; Nankai University, China;
  • VII.2. Social representations:  normative and dynamic intergroup approach; social representations, human rights and citizenship; legitimacy of social policy, social security, solidarity; social representations of justice and moral values; deviance within majority minority groups; migration and identity; ethnic minority-majority asymmetry and attitudes towards immigrants across nations; inter-group conflict, prejudice and policies aimed at reducing social inequality; social status, dominance and representational dynamics: anti-racist norms and persistence of flagrant racism towards Romani and Blacks; study of minorities as victims; social exclusion and minority groups: the case of Romani peoples; stigma toward the rural-to-urban migrants in China: University of Valencia – Spain; “Alexandru Ioan Cuza“ Iasi – Romania; Masaryk University. Brno - Czech Republic; University of Geneva and University of Lausanne – Switzerland; Sapienza University of Rome – Italy; University of Nankai – China; University of Ottawa – Canada; CUNY, New York – USA; Nankai University, China; Matej Bel University – Slovakia
  • VII.3: Social movements (like the Anti-Wall Street movement, TAV-noTAV, Arab spring revolution, etc.), active minorities and polemical representations about controversial issues with global or local impact in the debates among central, local authorities and communities: Sapienza University of Rome – Italy; CUNY, New York - USA; University of San Sebastian and Valencia – Spain; “Alexandru Ioan Cuza“ Iasi – Romania; Masaryk University, Brno - Czech Republic; Matej Bel University – Slovakia