33.1051, FYI: From Language to Psychology and from Ideology to Destruction

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Subject: 33.1051, FYI: From Language to Psychology and from Ideology to Destruction

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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2022 08:12:03
From: Chris Shei [c-c.shei at swansea.ac.uk]
Subject: From Language to Psychology and from Ideology to Destruction

 
>From Language to Psychology and from Ideology to Destruction: Exploring the
Fossilization and the Liberation of the Mind
Call for chapter proposals
Dr Chris Shei

The world has been shaken by an unexpected war beginning 24 February 2022 and
populations of the world have reacted to this event based on how their minds
are imprinted upon with what.  From various forms of support lent to the war
initiators and the oblivion shown to the victims especially from reactions
seen in authoritarian regimes, it may seem that political ideology can block
the mind’s pathway to empathy and sympathy among other things. This edited
book is conceived to explore the following rubrics of research questions under
the hypotheses that the human mind can be intentionally engineered (by
authority) or inadvertently conditioned (by environment) to reflect a certain
ideology or certain ideologies:

- What are the psychological and biological bases of mind engineering and mind
conditioning? Why are there some minds that escape engineering or
conditioning? How does a conditioned mind break away from the implanted
ideology?
- What specific role does language play in political mind engineering? What
factors work with language to engineer the mind towards a certain ideology?
What are the differences and similarities between political ideology and other
forms of ideology (e.g. gender, ethnicity, religion)?
- Why is a political mind so difficult to change, that is, to convert a person
who believes in democracy and freedom of speech to someone who subscribes to
authoritarian rule, or vice versa? What factors derived from investigation of
the first two groups of research questions can contribute to the ‘liberation’
of a politically engineered mind?
If you have an idea for a piece of research that could respond to any of the
above research questions, then please get in touch with me. There is no
deadline for the call and I will periodically renew the call by updating with
the proposed chapter titles received by then. I will propose the book to a
suitable major publisher when I have collected approximately ten proposed
chapters.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Neurolinguistics
                     Psycholinguistics





 



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