Tateo (2021): Atmos-Fear and Semiotic Devices: How to Turn the Right to Healthcare into a War

Luca Tateo authored a chapter titled 'Atmos-Fear and Semiotic Devices: How to Turn the Right to Healthcare into a War' in 'Global Pandemics and Epistemic Crises in Psychology', published by Routledge. Tateo also participated in the book launch event.

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Luca Tateo

Book Description 

Using COVID-19 as a base, this groundbreaking book brings together several renowned scholars to explore the concept of crisis, and how this global event has shaped the discipline of psychology. It engages directly with the challenges that psychology continues to face when theorizing societal issues of gender, race, class, history, and culture, while not disregarding "lived" experiences.

This edited volume offers a set of pathways to rethink psychology beyond its current scope and history to become more apt to the conditions, needs, and demands of the 21st century. The book explores topics like resilience, interpersonal relationships, mistrust in the government, and access to healthcare. Dividing the book into three distinct sections, the contributors first examine the current crisis within psychology, then go on to explore how psychology theorizes the subject and the other in a social world of perpetual political, economic, cultural, and social crises, and lastly consider the role of crises in the creation of new theorizing.

This is essential reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of theoretical and philosophical psychology, social psychology, community psychology, and developmental psychology.

About Tateos chapter

In the chapter 'Atmos-Fear and Semiotic Devices: How to Turn the Right to Healthcare into a War', Tateo developed the iconography of pandemics over the centuries to investigate how human beings make sense of these events. He also analyses the metaphor of the "war on virus" to show the process of cultivation of 'atmos-fear': a powerful mechanism of social control of future-oriented emotions such as fear and hope.

Book launch webinar

The book launch webinar had the contributions by Athanasios Marvakis, Brent Slife, Zachary Beckstead, Clint Burnham, Ignacio Brescó De Luna, Floor Van Alphen, Ines Langemeyer, Jeffrey Reber, Luca Tateo, and Michael Bamberg. During the event, authors presented the highlights of the chapters and developed an inspiring debate about the challenges of psychology for the future. 

Watch the webinar here.

Publisert 11. aug. 2021 11:44 - Sist endret 4. juli 2022 13:33