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The Niels Bohr Professorship Centre for Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University is the first international research hub dedicated to investigating in the field of Cultural Psychology and cognate disciplines. The staff at Centre for Cultural Psychology promotes an intense activity of peer-reviewed book series and international journals publishing. In this page you can find information about our editorial initiatives.
Cultural Psychology is the science of human beings studying the higher mental functions in their historically and socially situated developmental trajectories. Research at the Centre for Cultural Psychology focuses on the qualitative study of individual and collective phenomena expressed through the products of human meaning-making activity, such as creating, imagining, remembering, dwelling, learning, crossing, travelling, making art, and caring. The centre’s staff aims at going beyond academic compartments (education, development, social, clinical, etc.) to focus on the processes that by definition are not cuttable into disciplinary “slices”.
Our work at the centre is thus highly interdisciplinary and counter-hegemonic intellectual programme of Cultural Psychology which is cultivated through a restless search for innovative ideas and a high scientific productivity. The centre’s staff edits a number of international peer-reviewed publications (12 book series and 4 leading journals) to provide innovative, visionary, reckless, rigorous, and competent researchers with the possibility of participating in a scientific endeavour of developing future ideas.
Each of the centre’s publication channels is characterised by its specific aims and goals, but they are all understood to innovate. We warmly invite authors, especially early-stage researchers, to develop their ideas with us, to visit the centre in Aalborg in Denmark and to submit their work. We are particularly, but not exclusively, interested in inter-disciplinary work between psychology and humanistic or developmental sciences. For each publication channel, you can find below, the contact person and the website.
Book series
Innovation in qualitative research
Editor-in-chief: Luca Tateo
Publisher: Information Age Publishing
The peer-reviewed volumes promote innovative forms of doing and theorizing qualitative research (in psychology, sociology, anthropology, developmental sciences, educational studies, philosophy, etc.) that fruitfully interact with humanities and different forms of art. Read more.
Cultural Psychology of Education
Editor-in-chief: Pina Marsico
Publisher: Springer
This book series focuses on the development of new qualitative methodologies for educational psychology and interdisciplinary enrichment in ideas and practices. It publishes key ideas of methodology, different approaches to schooling, family, relationships and social negotiations of issues of educational processes. It presents new perspectives, such as dynamic systems theory, dialogical perspectives on the development of the self within educational contexts, and the role of various symbolic resources in educational processes. The series publishes research rooted in the cultural psychology framework, thus combining the fields of psychology, anthropology, sociology, education and history. Read more.
SpringerBriefs in Psychology and Cultural Developmental Science
Editors-in-chief: Pina Marsico & Jaan Valsiner
Publisher: Springer
SpringerBriefs in Psychology and Cultural Developmental Science will be an extension and topical completion of IPBS: Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science Journal (Springer, chief editor: Jaan Vasiner) expanding some relevant topics in the form of single (or multiple) authored book. The Series will have a clearly defined international and interdisciplinary focus hosting works on the interconnection between Cultural Psychology and other Developmental Sciences (biology, sociology, anthropology, etc). The Series aims at integrating knowledge from many fields in a synthesis of general science of Cultural Psychology as a new science of the human being. Read more.
Annals of Cultural Psychology
Editors-in-chief: Carlos Cornejo, Pina Marsico & Jaan Valsiner
The Annals of Cultural Psychology is a serial edited volume to be published yearly. It is developed as a complement to its brother series, Advances in Cultural Psychology: Constructing Human Development. Both series stem from the family of cultural psychology—a discipline that examines how human experience as a whole as well as experiential components—thought, behavior, feelings, etc.—are culturally organized—through semiotic mediation, symbolic action, and/or accumulation and transmission of inter-subjectively shared representations of the life-space. More information.
Advances in Cultural Psychology: Constructing Human Development
Editor-in-chief: Jaan Valsiner
Publisher: Information Age Publishing
In the beginning of the 21st century, a new direction has been emerging at the intersection of developmental and social psychologies, anthropology, education, and sociology - which has become labeled cultural psychology. This fits the vast global social processes of most countries becoming multi-cultural in their social orders, and the World becoming one "global village" - with the corresponding need to know how different parts of that "village" function. More information.
Yearbook of Idiographic Science
Editors-in-chief: Sergio Salvatore & Jaan Valsiner
Publisher: Information Age Publishing
YIS has been thought as an annual series of volumes collecting contributes aimed at developing the integration of idiographic and nomothetic approaches in psychological and more in general social science. Read more.
Perspectives on Human Development
Editors-in-chief: Dieter Ferring, Jaan Valsiner & Conchita D'Ambrosio
Publisher: Information Age Publishing
Annals of Theoretical Psychology
Editors-in-chief: Craig Gruber, Jaan Valsiner, Mathew Clark & Hroar Klempe
Publisher: Springer
The Annals of Theoretical Psychology is devoted to understanding theoretical developments and advances in psychological theory. This series is designed to further the dialogue on theoretical issues in the field of psychology and to unify the discipline through a theoretical synthesis of ideas on key issues of debate. Read more.
SpringerBriefs in Theoretical Advances in Psychology
Editor-in-chief: Jaan Valsiner
Publisher: Springer
SpringerBriefs in Theoretical Advances in Psychology will be an extension from the currently renovated Annals of Theoretical Psychology in the direction of bringing short, single (or multiple) authored theoretical advancements across all areas of psychology to the international audience. The focus is on the development of innovative theoretical approaches and their discussion. Read more.
Theory and History of Psychology
Editor-in-chief: Jaan Valsiner
Publisher: Transaction
This series integrates international, interdisciplinary, and innovative perspectives in contemporary psychology with other social sciences. Its focus is on little-known thinkers of the past whose work helps create new psychological perspectives. The core concept is that psychology’s history can inspire new directions for the field and new ideas for application to social and psychological issues. Read more.
New perspectives on theory and psychology
Niels Bohr Professorship Lectures in Cultural Psychology
Editor-in-chief: Brady Wagoner
Publisher: Information Age Publishing
This book series publishes the outcome of the annual Niels Bohr Lectures, in whcih leading cultural psychologists are invited to present new ideas for the development of the field. Read more.
Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture
Editors-in-chief: Vlad Glaveanu & Brady Wagoner
Publisher: Palgrave
This interdisciplinary series advances our knowledge of both creativity and culture by contributing to theory and research within the emerging field of the cultural psychology of creativity, at the intersection between psychology, anthropology, sociology, education, business, and cultural studies. Read more.
Journals
Human Arenas. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Psychology, Meaning, and Culture
Editor-in-Chief: G. Marsico; L. Tateo
Publisher: Springer
The object of the journal is the interdisciplinary study of higher psychological functions in human goal-oriented “liminal” phenomena in ordinary and extraordinary life conditions. The journal is organized around topics and arenas of human activity. Read more
Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science
Editor-in-chief: Jaan Valsiner
Publisher: Springer
This journal explores the cultural nature of human conduct and its evolutionary history, anthropology, ethology, communication processes between people and within -- as well as between -- societies. It integrates perspectives of the social and biological sciences through theoretical models of epigenesis. Integrative Psychological & Behavioral Science (IPBS) features articles that cover theoretical integration of ideas, epistemology of social and biological sciences, and original empirical research articles of general scientific value. Read more.
Culture & Psychology
Editor-in-chief: Jaan Valsiner
Publisher: Sage
Culture & Psychology is a leading international peer reviewed journal of scholarly contributions, integrating various aspects of the general notion of culture with scientific psychology. Culture & Psychology addresses the centrality of culture necessary for a basic understanding of the psychology of human beings: their identity, social conduct, intra- and intersubjective experiences, emotions and semiotic creativity. Read more.
Europe's Journal of Psychology
Editor-in-chief: Vlad Glaveanu
Publisher: PsychOpen
Quarterly electronic publication of scientific psychology featuring original studies, research, critical contributions, interviews and book reviews written by and intended for psychologists worldwide. Read more.
Psychology & Society
Editors-in-chief: Brady Wagoner, Seamus Powers, Julian Oldmeadow
Psychology & Society is an online peer-reviewed and open access journal that focuses on how the social world shapes psychological functioning and vice-versa. The journal publishes theoretical, methodological and empirical work that contributes to the knowledge of how the social world and the psyche are intertwined, interrelated and interdependent. Read more.
