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In each connection with new cultural contexts a new hybrid state of cultural adaptation is constructed enabling people to adjust to new conditions by creating innovative solutions for the self. This book aims to provide a brief presentation of innovative cultural psychological theory of proculturation reflecting and oriented on the understanding of semiotic and developmental dynamics of higher mental phenomena while engaging alien signs through intercultural communication. The exploration and theoretical understanding of developmental dynamics (such as self and identity construction) of people who live in immigration or multicultural, or even multi-ethnic societies, the research builds its new focus in contrasts with the acculturation theories currently present in social psychology. The theory of proculturation has been built in opposition to cross-cultural psychological theories as well as mainstream theories of acculturation research dominated by bidimensional theoretical models. Instead, this theory is constructed based on theoretical explorations which are rooted in cultural semiotics and developmental psychological paradigm on human psychology.

Series Editor Introduction Jaan Valsiner -- Introduction -- Part I. Chapter 1. Considering semiotic dynamics of social representation -- Chapter 2. Overcoming fragmentation - Semiotic dynamics of the self's construction -- Chapter 3. Theory of Proculturation -- Chapter 4. Proculturation as a systemic phenomenological process -- Chapter 5. Considering methodological preconditions for proculturation studies -- Part II. Chapter 6. Historical roots of Georgianness -- Ethnic positioning through reintegrative proculturation -- Chapter 7. Constructing social representations as sign-complexes - from historical foundations towards contemporary Georgianness -- Chapter 8. The case of emigrant's proculturation - semiotic jump in the human development -- Chapter 9. Conclusions: Proculturation of the Self in context.

Pt. 1. The best of times, the worst of times : 1985-1995. Georgia : a divided nation -- Prelude to revolution -- Populism in Georgia : the Gamsakhurdia phenomenon -- The interregnum -- pt. 2. State and society : 1995-2011. Democracy from below? -- The state -- The economy -- The myth of Georgian nationalism -- National security and foreign policy

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Purging in the Khrushchev era: 'Red cardinals' and nationalism in the Soviet Republics -- 2. The formation and development of the Soviet Latvian Nomenklatura: Path dependency, cleavages, and imposed unanimity -- 3. Patterns of succession: Top party elite recruitment in Soviet Moldavia and centre-periphery relations, 1940-1991 -- 4. The transformist: The evolution and adaptability of Sharaf Rashidov's regime in Soviet Uzbekistan -- 5. The Belarusian Soviet nomenklatura: A political history, 1947-1994 -- 6. The Soviet nomenklatura and cultural opposition during the Brezhnev period in Lithuania -- 7. Ukraine: Falling in and out of Moscow's grace -- 8. Between centre and periphery: The Gamsakhurdia and Kostava affair -- 9. Pragmatic political practice: The Estonian Communist Party, the intelligentsia, and Moscow -- Index.

Introduction : the tensions and transformations of moving in communities / Susanne Normann and Floor van Alphen -- Constituting childbirth activism in Argentina : a study of place, identity, and emotions / María Fernanda González -- The performative momentum of the hashtag : an examination of the #MeToo movement / Andreas A. Andersen and Nikolai S.K. Lybaek -- Meaning making processes in a professional community of social workers / Line Søberg Bjerre -- Making meaning of disability in residents' meetings for municipal welfare policy / Masakuni Tagaki -- Maneuvering around conflicts between international development NGOs and local communities toward poverty alleviation in Ghana / Seth Amofah -- Restoration of purpose : a goal-focused approach to cultural transformation and well-being promotion among marginalized communities / David Krzesni and Simon Coulombe -- Experiencing change : interrelations between individual and social transformations / Sarah H. Awad -- Recognition as a catalyst for agency : experiences from an intercultural art project for young people / Hildegunn Marie T. Seip -- The migration project : studying the narrative construction of migrant mobility in a nonlinear way / Eva Céspedes and Floor van Alphen -- Exploring the tensions and possible transformations in talent bobility to Estonian University / Muhammed Abdulai -- Self-expansion through proculturation : semiotic movement toward curvilinear development / Vladimer Lado Gamsakhurdia -- "Apart from being taught, you teach yourself" : appropriation and religious trajectories among children and youth in a Toba/Qom neighborhood of Buenos Aires / Mariana García Palacios -- Cultural psychology, communities and the construction of excluding spaces : the production of foreigners / Danilo Silva Guimarães.