Call
for papers for thespecial issue of the journal Universitas Psychologica on Critical Social Psychology of Work
In recent
years there have been developed and consolidated a number of conceptual and
methodological alternatives to the hegemonic vision of the world of work which
has historically prevailed in psychology.These perspectives that could be
grouped under the label of "critical social psychology of work"
distance themselvesfrom both the managerial and functionalist approach that has
characterized much of the industrial/organisational psychology and its conceptualisation
of workers as a resource to be managed towards maximising business
productivity.
Critical
social psychology of work is characterised by considering, in many different
ways, the category "work" within inter-and transdisciplinary
conceptual frameworks.As a consequence, studies developed in this area are
distinguished by including in their analysis aspects such as:the different
forms, manifestations and socio-historical transformations which capitalism
stamps on work organisation in different contexts; the regional ways through
which global designs such as neoliberalism are appropriated; the relationship
between modernity and coloniality in terms of the international division of labour;
the peculiar expressions of contemporary processes of flexibilisation,
precarisation, informalisation, de-industrialisation and unemployment, and the
way these phenomena affect the experiences, identities and processes of
subjectivation in, for and through work.
At the
same time, the geopolitics of knowledge in relation to psychology, as well as the
possibilities of alternative knowledge and ways of organising work that deviate
both from the current economic model, and from the discourses and practices
that are prescribed by the North Atlantic countries, have been a constant
concern of the studies conducted in this area.
For this
special issue of the journal Universitas Psychologica on Critical Social
Psychology of Work, it is expected that contributions can give visibility to
the centrality of workplaces as:
- spaces of construction of
subjectivities, experiences, and personal and collective identities;
- spheres of configuration of dynamics
of control and resistance;
- places in which processes that can
either lead to disease or promote the health of workers are produced;
- territories in which alternatives to the
global prescriptions of contemporary capitalism emerge;
- fields in which different
discourses and practices are used as psychological strategies for governing the
workforce;
- environments that produce
everyday interactions which support exclusion and unequal relations of gender,
race, age, amongst others;
- locations where new alternatives
to the economic development model emerge.
Contributions should
be submitted before February 28, 2013 via emailto the international editors
invited for this special issue:
Papers
must follow the form and recommendations set forth in the guidelines for
publication of the APA 6th edition. If a paper is accepted for publication, printing
rights of reproduction in any form or medium are of the usual editor of the
journal. The author may request permission to reasonably reproduce their
contributions.
Web site of the
journal in http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/sitio/psychologica/
