Culture as Process, 1st ed. 2021
A Tribute to Jaan Valsiner

Jaan Valsiner has made numerous contributions to the development of psychology over the last 40 years. He is internationally recognized as a leader and innovator within both developmental psychology and cultural psychology, and has received numerous prizes for his work: the Alexander von Humboldt prize, the Hans Killian prize, and the Outstanding International Psychologist Award from the American Psychological Association. Having taught at Universities in Europe, Asia and north and south America, he is currently Niels Bohr professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. This book is the first to discuss in detail the different sides of Valsiner?s thought, including developmental science, semiotic mediation, cultural transmission, aesthetics, globalization of science, epistemology, methodology and the history of ideas. The book provides an overview, evaluation and extension of Valsiner?s key ideas for the construction of a dynamic cultural psychology, written by his former students and colleagues from around the world.

1. Introduction.- Part I. Rethinking the History of Psychology.- 2. Valsiner and van der Veer: A case of intellectual interdependency.- 3. Jaan Valsiner: A Ganzheitspsychologist?.- 4.The Self inside Us: Biologism, internalization, quantification and science—Martin Dege.- 5. Rising up to humanity: Towards a cultural psychology of Bildung.- Part II. Developmental Science in the Making.- 6. The dynamics of agency and context in human development: Holism revisited.- 7. Forever feeding forward.- 8. The construction of generalized knowledge: First essay on abbreviation.- 9. The concept of Irreversible Time.- 10. The trajectory of Jaan Valsiner’s Thought.- 11. The bounded indeterminancy of tradition.- Part III. The Semiotic Mind.- 14. A stroll through the birthplace of signs.- 15. Expansive and restrictive semiosis.- 16. Hypergeneralized affective-semiotic fields: The generative power of a construct.- 17. Unfolding semiosis: The field of mediated activity.- Part IV. Cultural Transmission and Transformation.- 12. Culture as a creative process.- 13. The Carnivalesque pedagogy: Jaan as a pedagogist?!.- 14. Overcoming the binary logic of biculturalism.- 15. Sense of belonging in the context of migration.- 16. Political plasticity and culture.- V. Aesthetics in Culture and Mind.- 23. Aesthetic Notes on Ornamented Lives.-24. Pleromatization: Bringinthali M. Moghaddamg psychology closer to human experience.- 25. The Vorbild of Donor Portraits and Cultural Psychology.- 26. Poetic Genesis: Intimacy as a special form of boundary dynamics.- 27. The fabric of (faked) behaviors shows in theater rehearsals.- VI. Psychology as a Global Science.- 27. Local ideas for a global science.- 28. From cross-cultural psychology towards a collective culture of general psychology.- 29. The relationalism of Jaan Valsiner.- 30. Jaan Valsiner, creator of opportunities for cultural ecology.- VII. Epistemological Foundations of Psychology.- 33. The science of psyche: Jaan Valsiner’s way at the frontiers.- 34. Ideas and challenges for cultural psychology.- 35. Action-theoretical cultural psychology and the decentred subject.- 36. Valsiner on Facts: making cultural practices explicit.- 37. Bridging: Some personal reflections.- VIII. Innovating Methodology.- 38. Method as Process.- 39. Catalysis in cultural psychology: Its past and future.- 40. Jaan Valsiner.

BRADY WAGONER is Professor of Psychology and the Co-Director of the MA program in Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University (Denmark).  He completed his Ph.D. in psychology at University of Cambridge on a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. His publications span a wide range of topics, including the cultural psychology, remembering, imagination, social change and the history of psychology. He is associate editor of Culture & Psychology, co-founding editor of Psychology & Society and on the editorial boards of several other journals. His recent books include The Constructive Mind: Bartlett’s psychology in reconstruction (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Handbook of Culture and Memory (Oxford University Press). The Psychology of Radical Social Change with Fathali Moghaddam and Jaan Valsiner (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and Remembering as a Cultural Process with Ignacio Bresco and Sarah H. Awad (Springer, 2019). He has received several major awards, including the Early Career Award from the American Psychological Association (division 26) in 2017, the Sigmund Koch Award from the American Psychological Association in 2018, and the Lucienne Domergue Award from the Casa de Velazquez in 2019.  He has held senior research fellowships and honorary professorships in Brazil, France, the Netherlands and Spain.

BO ALLESØE Christensen is Associate professor in the Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University (Denmark), and part of the board of directors of the Centre for Cultural Psychology. . His research interests and publications lies in the intersection of topics like computing, recognition, cultural psychology and philosophy. He has served as reviewer for and contributor to numerous journals, including Culture and Psycho