Jovchelovitch, Sandra


Professor Sandra Jovchelovitch  

Department

Position held

Institute of Social Psychology

Professor of Social Psychology and Director of the MSc in Social and Cultural Psychology

Experience keywords:

social representations; public sphere; Brazilian public sphere; inter-cultural dialogue; community development; knowledge processes; Brazil; participation; health; dialogue and communication; belief systems

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My research interests are in the social and cultural psychology of community and public spheres, knowledge and belief systems in contemporary societies, the social psychology of participation and community development. My current projects are a study of social regeneration, cultural dialogue and the use of art in Rio's favelas and an international investigation on how children represent the public world. My interests in Brazil cover the social psychology of the Brazilian public sphere, participation in the public sphere and community development.

Sectors and industries to which research relates:

ConsultancyCreative Industries and CultureHealthcarePolicy and Regulatory Bodies

Languages:

Spanish [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]; Italian [Spoken: Basic, Written: Basic]; Portuguese [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]; French [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Intermediate]

Media experience:

Radio

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 6863

Publications

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Jovchelovitch, Sandra (2013) Child and kite: flying aspirations in Rio.

Jovchelovitch, Sandra (2013) Dressing up: play and carnival in the favela.

2012

Jovchelovitch, Sandra (2012) Narrative, memory and social representations: a conversation between history and social psychology. Integrative psychological and behavioral science, 46 (4). pp. 440-456. ISSN 1932-4502

Jovchelovitch, Sandra and Priego-Hernandez, Jacqueline (2012) Underground sociabilities: identity, culture and resistance in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas. London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

2010

Jovchelovitch, Sandra (2010) From social cognition to the cognition of the social: remembering Gerard Duveen. Papers on social representations, 19 pp. 1-3. ISSN 1021-5573

2008

Jovchelovitch, Sandra (2008) Rehabilitation of common sense: social representations, science and cognitive polyphasia. Journal for the theory of social behaviour, 38 (4). pp. 431-449. ISSN 0021-8308

2007

Jovchelovitch, Sandra (2007) Trust and social representations: understanding the relations between self and other in the Brazilian public sphere. In: Marková, Ivana and Gillespie, Alex, (eds.) Trust and distrust: sociocultural perspectives. Information Age Publishing, Charlotte, NC, USA, pp. 105-120. ISBN 9781593118426

Jovchelovitch, Sandra (2007) Reflections on the diversity of knowledge: power and dialogue in representational fields. In: Sugiman, T and Gergern, K. J. and Wagner, W and Yamada, Y, (eds.) Meaning in action: constructions, narratives, and representations. Springer, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 23-37. ISBN 9784431746799

Renedo, Alicia and Jovchelovitch, Sandra (2007) Expert knowledge, cognitive polyphasia and health: a study on social representations of homelessness among professionals working in the voluntary sector in London. Journal of health psychology, 12 (5). pp. 779-790. ISSN 1461-7277

Jovchelovitch, Sandra (2007) Knowledge in context : representations, community and culture (author summary). Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415287357

2006

Jovchelovitch, Sandra (2006) Knowledge in context : representations, community, and culture. Routledge, New York. ISBN 0415287340

Jovchelovitch, Sandra (2006) Repenser la diversité de la connaissance: polyphasie cognitive, croyances et representations. In: Hass, V., (ed.) Les savois du quotidian. Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes, France.

2005

Jovchelovitch, Sandra (2005) La fonction symbolique et la construction des representations: la dynamique communcationnelle ego/alter/object. Hermés, 41 (1). pp. 51-57. ISSN 0018-0777

Jovchelovitch, Sandra and Guareschi, P.A., (eds.) (2005) Textos em representações sociais [Texts on social representations]. Vozes, Petrópolis, Brazil.

2004

Jovchelovitch, Sandra (2004) Contextualiser les focus groups : comprendre groupes et cultures dans la recherche sur le représentations. Bulletin de psychologie, 57 (3). pp. 245-252. ISSN 6062-4052

Jovchelovitch, Sandra (2004) Psicologia social : saber, comunidade e cultura. Psicologia e sociedade, 16 (2). pp. 20-31. ISSN 0102-7182

Guareschi, Pedrinho and Jovchelovitch, Sandra (2004) Participation, health and the development of community resources in southern Brazil. Journal of health psychology, 9 (2). pp. 311-322. ISSN 1359-1053

2002

Jovchelovitch, Sandra (2002) Social representations and narratives : stories of public life in Brazil. In: Lazlo, J. and Rogers, W., (eds.) Narrative and social psychology. Budapest University Press, Budapest, Hungary.

2001

Jovchelovitch, Sandra (2001) Social representations, public life and social construction. In: Deaux, Kay and Philogene, Gina, (eds.) Representations of the social : bridging theoretical traditions. Blackwell Publishing, London, UK. ISBN 0631215344

2000

Jovchelovitch, Sandra (2000) Corruption flows in our blood : mixture and impurity in representations of public life in Brazil. In: Chaib, M. and Orfali, B., (eds.) Social representations and communicative processes. Jönköping University Press, Jönköping, Sweden, pp. 139-155.

Jovchelovitch, Sandra (2000) Representações sociais e espaço público : a construção simbólica dos espaços públicos no Brasil [Social representations and public life : the symbolic construction of public spaces in Brazil]. Vozes, Petrópolis, Brazil. ISBN 8532623468

Jovchelovitch, Sandra and Bauer, Martin W. (2000) Narrative interviewing. In: Bauer, Martin W. and Gaskell, G., (eds.) Qualitative researching with text, image and sound : a practical handbook. SAGE, London, UK, pp. 57-74. ISBN 0761964819

Campbell, Catherine and Jovchelovitch, Sandra (2000) Health, community and development : towards a social psychology of participation. Journal of community and applied social psychology, 10 (4). pp. 255-270. ISSN 1052-9284

1999

Wagner, Wolfgang and Farr, Robert and Jovchelovitch, Sandra and Lorenzi-Cioldi, Fabio and Marková, Ivana and Duveen, Gerard and Rose, Diana (1999) Theory and method of social representations. Asian journal of social psychology, 2 (1). pp. 95-125. ISSN 1367-2223

Jovchelovitch, Sandra and Gervais, Marie-Claude (1999) Social representations of health and illness: the case of the Chinese community in England. Journal of community & applied social psychology, 9 (4). pp. 247-260. ISSN 1052-9284

1998

Gervais, Marie-Claude and Jovchelovitch, Sandra (1998) The health beliefs of the Chinese community in England: a qualitative research study. Health Education Authority, London, England

Jovchelovitch, Sandra (1998) Re(des)cobrindo o outro : para um entendimento da alteridade na teoria das representações sociais. In: Arruda, A., (ed.) Representando a Alteridade. Vozes, Petropolis, Brazil, pp. 69-82.

Jovchelovitch, Sandra (1998) Intervening in the public sphere : emancipation and domination in representational fields. In: Riga, A., (ed.) Social representations and contemporary social problems. Ellinika Grammata, Athens, Greece.

Gervais, Marie-Claude and Jovchelovitch, Sandra (1998) Health and identity: the case of the Chinese community in England. Social science information, 37 (4). pp. 709-729. ISSN 0539-0184

Jovchelovitch, Sandra (1998) Emancipation and domination in social representations of public life. Interamerican journal of psychology, 32 (2). pp. 169-189. ISSN 0034-9690

Jovchelovitch, Sandra (1998) Representações sociais : para uma fenomenologia dos saberes sociais. Psicologia e sociedade, 10 (1). pp. 54-68. ISSN 0102-7182

1997

Jovchelovitch, Sandra (1997) Peripheral groups and the transformation of social representations : queries on power and recognition. Social psychology review, 1 (1). pp. 16-26. ISSN 1369-7862

1996

Jovchelovitch, Sandra (1996) In defence of representations. Journal for the theory of social behaviour, 26 (2). pp. 121-135. ISSN 0021-8308

Jovchelovitch, Sandra (1996) Espaços the mediação e gênese das representações sociais. Psico, 27 (1). pp. 193-205. ISSN 1980-8623

Humphreys, P. and Berkeley, D. and Jovchelovitch, Sandra (1996) Organisation psychology and psychologists in organisations : focus on organisational transformation. Journal of the Interamerican Society of Psychology, 30 (1). pp. 27-42. ISSN 0034-9690

1995

Jovchelovitch, Sandra (1995) Social representations in and of the public sphere : towards a theoretical articulation. Journal for the theory of social behaviour, 25 (1). pp. 81-102. ISSN 0021-8308

Rose, Diana and Efraim, Danielle and Gervais, Marie-Claude and Joffe, Helene and Jovchelovitch, Sandra and Morant, Nicola (1995) Questioning consensus in social representations theory. Papers on social representations, 4 (2). pp. 150-176. ISSN 1021-5573

1994

Jovchelovitch, Sandra (1994) Comment on Banchs' 'Desconstruyendo una desconstrucción : lectura de Ian Parker (1989) a la luz de los criterios de Parker y Shotter'. Papers on social representations, 3 (2). pp. 225-228. ISSN 1021-5573

Jovchelovitch, Sandra (1994) Vivendo a vida com os outros : espaço público, intersubjetividade e representações sociais. In: Guareschi, P.A. and Jovchelovitch, Sandra, (eds.) Textos em representações sociais. Vozes, Petropolis, Brazil, pp. 63-85.

1993

Jovchelovitch, Sandra and Allansdottir, A. and Stathopoulou, A. (1993) Social representations : the versatility of a concept. Papers on social representations, 2 (1). pp. 3-10. ISSN 1021-5573

Allansdottir, Agnes and Jovchelovitch, Sandra and Stathopoulou, Angela (1993) Some further points: replies to Augoustinos and Páez & González.. Papers on social representations, 2 pp. 31-32. ISSN 1021-5573

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