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Cabra, Martina

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Cabra, Martina
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Post-doctorante
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martina.cabra@unine.ch
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https://libra.unine.ch/handle/123456789/1137
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  • Publication
    Accès libre
    Thematic engagements: Affects and learning in older age
    (2024)
    Zittoun, Tania 
    ;
    Cabra, Martina 
    In this paper, we propose a sociocultural perspective to consider affects in older age. The psychology of learning throughout the whole life course, including in the life of older adults, suggest that affects play an important role. However, developmental psychology has paid little attention to affects in learning and development, and even less to these aspects in older age. We believe that it is important to examine affects in older age because of their centrality in the lifecourse; but how to account for them? We propose the notion of thematic engagement to highlight the role of affects in older persons' learning and development, and to designate transversal and pluri-thematic interests across activities and domains of knowledge, which enable us to show that some topics, domains or interests become more important than others for a given person across time. We base our claims on a longitudinal study of older people engaging in different activities at home, in their neighbourhood, as well as in a daycare centre for older people, and provide three dialogical exemplars. We finally highlight some theoretical and empirical implications of our proposition.
  • Publication
    Accès libre
    Social Psychology of and for World-Making
    (2023)
    Séamus A. Power
    ;
    Zittoun, Tania 
    ;
    Sanne Akkerman
    ;
    Brady Wagoner
    ;
    Cabra, Martina 
    ;
    Flora Cornish
    ;
    Hawlina, Hana 
    ;
    Brett Heasman
    ;
    Kesi Mahendran
    ;
    Charis Psaltis
    ;
    Antti Rajala
    ;
    Angela Veale
    ;
    Alex Gillespie
    Academic Abstract Social psychology’s disconnect from the vital and urgent questions of people’s lived experiences reveals limitations in the current paradigm. We draw on a related perspective in social psychology1—the sociocultural approach—and argue how this perspective can be elaborated to consider not only social psychology as a historical science but also social psychology of and for world-making. This conceptualization can make sense of key theoretical and methodological challenges faced by contemporary social psychology. As such, we describe the ontology, epistemology, ethics, and methods of social psychology of and for world-making. We illustrate our framework with concrete examples from social psychology. We argue that reconceptualizing social psychology in terms of world-making can make it more humble yet also more relevant, reconnecting it with the pressing issues of our time. Public Abstract We propose that social psychology should focus on “world-making” in two senses. First, people are future-oriented and often are guided more by what could be than what is. Second, social psychology can contribute to this future orientation by supporting people’s world-making and also critically reflecting on the role of social psychological research in world-making. We unpack the philosophical assumptions, methodological procedures, and ethical considerations that underpin a social psychology of and for world-making. Social psychological research, whether it is intended or not, contributes to the societies and cultures in which we live, and thus it cannot be a passive bystander of world-making. By embracing social psychology of and for world-making and facing up to the contemporary societal challenges upon which our collective future depends will make social psychology more humble but also more relevant.
  • Publication
    Accès libre
    Conclusion: An invitation to dialogue with The Life of the Mind
    (2022-5-31)
    Zadeh, Sophie
    ;
    Zittoun, Tania 
    ;
    Marková, Ivana
    ;
    Coultas, Claire
    ;
    Cabra, Martina 
    The Life of the Mind is an intriguing unfinished book written by Hannah Arendt, known as a political philosopher, at the very end of her life in 1975. We devote this Special Issue of Culture & Psychology to this work, because we are convinced that it raises interesting and important questions for social and cultural psychology today. In this Introduction to the Special Issue, we first explain why we believe that this book deserves closer attention. Second, we present the context of its publication, and a short biography of Arendt, to show its position in her life. Published posthumously, the book was her last project, yet it is based on some of her lifelong concerns. Third, we summarise Arendt’s ideas about the psyche, and the main three faculties of mind – thinking, willing and judging – with which the book is concerned. We then address three difficulties the book raises for psychologists reading her work. Finally, we explain the context in which we developed this Special Issue, and summarise the topics that will be addressed in the papers assembled here.
  • Publication
    Accès libre
    Réformes politiques face au vieillissement démographique: Diversité des perspectives dans la mise en oeuvre d'une politique socio-sanitaire
    (2022)
    Gfeller, Fabienne 
    ;
    Grossen Peretti, Michèle 
    ;
    Cabra, Martina 
    ;
    Zittoun, Tania 
    Partant du constat du changement démographique et des réformes qui tentent d’y répondre, nous nous penchons sur le programme politique d’un canton suisse, la planification médico-sociale du canton de Neuchâtel, et en particulier sur la promotion d’appartements dits « avec encadrements », qui constitue une mesure centrale de cette planification. Considérant que la mise en oeuvre de cette réforme, et ces appartements en particulier, demandent la collaboration entre un grand nombre de personnes et d’institutions (architectes, services administratifs cantonaux, politicien-nes, personnes âgées entre autres), nous examinons le sens que différent-es acteurs/trices donnent à la situation dans laquelle ils/elles sont impliqué-e-s sous l’angle de ce qui leur importe, ou « what matters » (Edwards, 2012), en analysant des données récoltées dans le cadre d’une étude de cas régionale, incluant entretiens, observations et recherche documentaire. Nous examinons également des situations de rencontre entre différentes perspectives sur « ce qui importe », et mettons en évidence la manière dont ces rencontres peuvent engendrer des changements dans la perspective de chacun-e concernant « ce qui importe », et donc dans les pratiques.
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    Dialogical exemplars as communicative tools: Resituating knowledge from dialogical single case studies
    (2019-11-21)
    Zadeh, Sophie
    ;
    Cabra, Martina 
    In this article, we develop the concept of ‘dialogical exemplars’ as communicative tools for scholars who wish to ‘resituate knowledge’ from dialogical single case studies. Exemplars are typological representatives that try to convey typicality in non-taxonomic terms, yet in the existing literature, they are defined in terms of their relationship to a population, class or sample. We suggest instead that ‘dialogical exemplars’, as specific instances that have the self-other at their core, can be used to convey the ‘wholeness’ of cases to various audiences. To support this proposition, we draw upon two single case studies, built 30 years apart, that are concerned with children’s daily lives and experiences. Specifically, we develop a dialogue with and between examples from each case of children's play, not only to make the case for ‘dialogical exemplars’, but also to evidence the process through which we arrived at this concept. We highlight that this process is one that researchers often go through, but, rather curiously, rarely document. In conclusion, we suggest that ‘resituating knowledge’ might be best thought of as several, non-linear, stages in the process of dialogical research that involve, and invite further dialogue.