Identity at the Borders and Between the Borders

Katrin Kullasepp is Associate Professor at Tallinn University, School of Natural Sciences and Health. Dr. Kullasepp’s scientific interests concern cultural psychology and her research focuses on development of identity, including students’ professional identity construction and national identity formation. She also takes interest in border studies and in policy design. She is a co-author of several textbooks and workbooks for basic and upper secondary schools in Estonia.Giuseppina Marsico is Associate Professor of Development and Educational Psychology at the University of Salerno (Italy), Affiliated Researcher at Centre for Cultural Psychology, Aalborg University (Denmark), Visiting Professor at Ph.D Programme in Psychology, Federal University of Bahia, (Brazil) and Honorary Associate Professor in School of Psychology University of Sidney (Australia). Her academic tracks and list of publications include two complementary lines of investigations: 1) an educational-focused research activity where prof. Marsico is widely recognized as the leading figure in the new filed of Cultural Psychology of Education; 2) a cultural oriented interdisciplinary perspective based on both theoretical and empirical investigation, focusing on the borders as a new ontogenetic perspective in psychology and other social sciences

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Making Borders Is Making Identities, Making Identities Is Making Borders.- Chapter 2. Cities of Senses: Visible and Invisible Borders in Public Spaces.- Chapter 3. Multiple Place Attachment as Mental Border Building.- Chapter 4. the Dynamic Functionality of Borders: A Study From a Cultural Perspective.- Chapter 5. Border Selves: Experiences, Positions, and Inner-Others From the Spanish-Moroccan Border.- Chapter 6. The Role of Estonian National Museum in the Process of Redefining the Boundaries of National Identity.- Chapter 7. An Intra-Psychological Perspective on Borders: On the Example of Becoming Estonian.- Chapter 8. Conclusion: The Bordering Process in Mind and Society.