Overview
- Advocates for a move to a more global psychological framework
- Details the contributions of Professor Kuo-shu Yang, a leader in the field
- Presents next steps for indigenous psychology as an area of study
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Indigenous Psychology (PASIP)
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This volume celebrates the visions of a more equitable global psychology as inspired by the late Professor K. S. Yang, one of the founders of the indigenous psychology movement. This unprecedented international debate among leaders in the field is essential for anyone who wishes to understand the movement from within—the thinking and the vision of those who are the driving forces behind the movement. This book should appeal to scholars and students of psychology, sociology, anthropology, ethnology, philosophy of science, and postcolonial studies.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Introduction to Prof. Yang
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International Critique of Prof. Yang’s Model of Global Psychology
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Critique of International Readings of Prof. Yang
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Conclusion
Reviews
“The shift from a Western vision of psychology to the appreciation of multiple, indigenous psychologies is momentous in its potential. How then are we now to bring about a coherent, global psychology? As a tribute to the path-finding works of Kuo-Shu Yang, the present volume launches an international forum to explore this significant question. A stellar cast of culturally concerned psychologists offer keen insights, sparkling debate and a deep appreciation of the importance of bringing cherished differences into a just and inclusive whole. Such groundbreaking deliberation provides a window into the profound challenge of how the world’s peoples can achieve a form of unity that will enable us to survive.”
—Kenneth J. Gergen, author of Relational Being: Beyond Self and Community (2011)
“This volume is an incredible tribute to Professor Kuo-Shu Yang’s lifetime contribution to indigenous psychology. It features reflections from renowned scholars, showing how they thought Prof. Yang’s work has provided a vision for global psychology and a culturally inclusive psychology. Any students of indigenous psychology cannot miss reading this volume.”
—Ying-yi Hong, Professor of Marketing, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
“Prof. Yang left the most valuable legacy in Asian indigenous psychology. This volume shows the way for researchers in Asia and beyond to pursue. The debates among international scholars are extremely inspiring.”—Susumu Yamaguchi, Emeritus Professor of Social Psychology, University of Tokyo, Japan
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Louise Sundararajan is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), and recipient of the Abraham Maslow Award for 2014, from Division 32 (International Society of Humanistic Psychology) of APA. She received her Ph.D. in History of Religions from Harvard University, and her Ed.D. in Counseling Psychology from Boston University.
Kwang-Kuo Hwang is Professor Emeritus of Personality and Social Psychology at National Taiwan University, Taiwan. He is founder of Research Center for Cultural China and recently published Culture-inclusive Theories: An Epistemological Strategy (2019).
Kuang-Hui Yeh is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, and a Joint-Appointment Professor of Department of Psychology at National Taiwan University, Taiwan. He is also the current President of Taiwanese Psychological Association.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Psychology from Indigenous Perspectives
Book Subtitle: Visions Inspired by K. S. Yang
Editors: Louise Sundararajan, Kwang-Kuo Hwang, Kuang-Hui Yeh
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Indigenous Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35125-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-35124-3Published: 27 May 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-35127-4Published: 28 May 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-35125-0Published: 26 May 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-4692
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4706
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 295
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cross Cultural Psychology, Comparative Psychology, Anthropology, Regional and Cultural Studies