Reclaiming Political Psychology

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract This chapter traces Catarina Kinnvall’s intellectual journey into political psychology, beginning with her research on political learning and democratization in post-Tiananmen China. She shifts from cognitive and foreign policy theories to feminist, postcolonial, and psychoanalytical approaches, especially in her work on nationalism, identity, and ontological security. Kinnvall constructs a gendered Lacanian framework to examine how anxiety, trauma, and emotion shape political behavior, focusing on populism, migration, climate denial, and the COVID-19 pandemic. By weaving together psychoanalysis, poststructuralism, and global narratives, her work challenges rationalist, individualistic, and Western-centric models in political psychology. Finally, the chapter calls for a relational, inclusive, and postpositivist political psychology that embraces diverse methodologies and centers on structural, emotional, and unconscious dynamics in political life.
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Authors Catarina Kinnvall
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Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
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10.1093/oso/9780197771051.003.0018
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