Self and Others

ROM HARRÉ has been a longtime University Lecturer on the Philosophy of Science at Oxford University. He is also a Emeritus Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford, and has been visiting professor at universities around the world. He has authored or co-authored nearly 60 books.FATHALI MOGHADDAM is Professor of Psychology at Georgetown University. He has also taught at McGill University and the National University of Iran, and has been a National Officer for a United Nations Development Program.

• Introduction by Rom Harré and Fathali M. MoghaddamThe Self and Other IndividualsMotivational Styles and Positioning Theory by Michael J. ApterPositioning and the Emotions by W. Gerrod Parrott"There You Are Man": Men's Use of Emotion Discourses and Their Negotiation of Emotional Subject Positions by Chris Walton, Adrian Coyle, and Evanthia LyonsThe Unthinkable, the Unspeakable Self: Reflections on the Importance of Negative Emotional Boundaries for the Formation, Maintenance and Transformation of Identities by Ciarán BensonMalignant Positioning and the Predicament of People with Alzheimer's Disease by Steven R. SabatParanoia, Ambivalence, and Discursive Practices: Concepts of Position and Positioning in Psychoanalysis and Discursive Psychology by Margaret WetherellThe Self and GroupsPositioning and Neighborhood Groups by Rom Harré and Nikki SlocumSustaining Intergroup Harmony: An Analysis of the Kissinger Papers through Positioning Theory by Fathali M. Moghaddam, Elizabeth Hanley, and Rom HarréCategories as Actions: Positioning, Oppression, and Heteronormativity by Sue Wilkinson and Celia KitzengerGender Positioning: A 16th/17th Century Example Jennifer Lynn Adams and Rom HarréPositioning and Postcolonial Apologizing in Australia by Lucinda AberdeenApplying Positioning Principles to a Theory of Collective Identity by Donald M. Taylor, Evelyne Bougie, and Julie CaouetteThe Self and ContextIntegration Speaking: Introducing Positioning Theory in Regional Integration Studies by Nikki Slocum and Luk Van LangenhoveCulture-Clash and Patents: Positioning and Intellectual Property Rights by Fathali M. Moghaddam and Shayna GinsburgAssessment of Quality Systems with Positioning Theory by Lionel BoxerPositioning the Subject in Body/Landscape Relations by Bronwyn DaviesConcluding Chapter by Tim May