493
Transition, Social Justice and Identity: Social Psychological Insights

Monday, 11 July 2016: 09:00-10:30
Location: Hörsaal 4C KS (Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG))
RC42 Social Psychology (host committee)

Language: English

Transition in societies in a globalising world opens up new possibilities with regard to the construction of identities and the entitlements associated with them. Potential contestation on membership, rights, equity and individual freedom emerge between cross-cutting social divisions in societies. The politics of resource distribution and recognition are intertwined in such contestations, with identity becoming a significant marker in communities. Interests and identity can be mutually implicative and closely tied to legacies of either privileging or exclusion in the past, with institutional arrangements reflecting the balance of power.
This session invites papers which consider how social identities are shaped by recent transitions within societies and claims for social justice are made (or contested) with a focus on the particular insights that can be derived from social psychological research.
Session Organizer:
Charles PUTTERGILL, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Posters:
493.1
The Contested Positioning of Black Women in the South African Academy: What Should Come First, Their Race or Their Gender?
Grace KHUNOU, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
493.2
Identity Capital Acquisition Among South African Youth
Alvina KUBEKA, University of Cape Town, South Africa
493.3
Protest Motivation in an Economic Crisis: The Role Relative Deprivation in the Icelandic “Pots and Pans Revolution”
Jon Gunnar BERNBURG, The University of Iceland, Iceland
493.4
Social Identity, Procedural Justice and Political Outcomes: Testing of the Social Activists' Involvement in Anti-Authoritarianism Struggles in Belarus
Olga LAVRINENKO, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
493.5
What Makes Us More ‘Critically Open-Minded' in a Globalized World? an Australian Perspective
Seyed A. HOSSEINI FARADONBEH, The University of Newcastle, Australia; Lawrence SAHA, Australian National University, Australia
493.6
Labour Migration in Contemporary South Africa and Its Negative Effect on the Livelihoods of Families in the North West Province
Kearabetswe MOKOENE, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
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