Cultural Psychology of Intervention in the Globalized World

Sanna Schliewe, Centre for Cultural Psychology Aalborg University, DenmarkNandita Chaudhary, University of Delhi, Lady Irwin CollegeGiuseppina Marsico, University of Salerno, Italy; Centre for Cultural Psychology, Aalborg University Denmark

• Series Editor's Preface: Sincere Desires for Improvements in the Globalizing World; Jaan Valsiner.Editors' Introduction: Weaving Culture Plot: Intervention at the Intersection of Borders and Community in a Changing World; Sanna Schliewe, Giuseppina Marsico, and Nandita Chaudhary.Part I. Principles of Intervention.Chapter 1. Therapy as Anthropology; Jacob Mosgaard.Chapter 2. The Fuel and the Engine: A General Semio-Cultural Psychological Framework for Social Intervention; Viviana Fini and Sergio Salvatore.Part II. Community Interventions—In Europe and Latin America.Chapter 3. Homes as Intervention Forms; Amrei C. Joerchel and Stephan Dietrich.Chapter 4. Psychosocial Interventions in the Context of Forced Migration: Empowerment and Social Action; Lenssa Mohammed.Chapter 5. A Culture of Peace: Social Action Learning and Peace-Building in Mexico Through the Educational System; Elena de Casas and Peter Berliner.Chapter 6. Amerindian Support Network; Melina Bertholdo and Danilo Guimarães.Chapter 7. The Reconstruction of a New System of Needs After a Post-War Emergency; Emiliana Mangone.Part III. Global Mobile Agents as Receivers of Intervention.Chapter 8. Global Health Intervention from Global North to South: (Academic) Preparation of Students; Rashmi Singla and Louise Mubanda Rasmussen.Chapter 9. Industrial Citizenship and International Mobility: Employer's Interventions into the State of Welfare of Danish and Finnish ‘Expats’ in India; Nicol Foulkes Savinetti.Chapter 10. Relocation Services for Families in Geographical Itinerancy: Beyond the Cultural Problem; Déborah Levitan, Tania Zittoun, and Flavia Cangiani.Part IV. The Everyday Life of Global Mobile Agents.Chapter 11. The Mobile Life-World Map: A Dialogical Tool for Understanding Expatriates; Sanna Schliewe.Chapter 12. Strangers in Foreign Lands: Entering the Missionary Field; Zachary Beckstead.Chapter 13. Identity Negotiation Across Cultures: A Case Study of International Women Aid Workers; Alice Gritti.Chapter 14. Who is an ‘Expatriate’? Euro-American Identities, Race, and Integration in Postcolonial India; Shalini Grover.Chapter 15. Here to Stay: How Relationships, Results, and Grit Characterize Exemplary International Aid Workers; R. Scott Breslin.Biographies.