The book “Psychopolitics of the Pandemic,” prepared under the editorship of Prof. Dr. Deniz Ülke Arıboğan, Dean of Üsküdar Üniversitesi Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hadiye Yılmaz Odabaşı, Vice Dean, has met its readers.
The impact of the pandemic on social psychology is being examined
The book examines the impact of the pandemic process, which we have been experiencing for the last year due to COVID-19, on human and social psychology in a historical context. It consists of 12 articles written by scientists and guest lecturers who continue their academic work in the field of humanities and social sciences at Üsküdar Üniversitesi Political Psychology Application and Research Center.
“Human and social behaviors are examined through examples of epidemic processes”
The book, published by İnkılap Kitabevi, examines human and social behaviors through examples of epidemic processes in Turkish and world history, revealing the connections between current political attitudes and the psychopolitics of society. This academic work, which makes a significant contribution to the discipline of political psychology, opens up discussion on the historical depiction of epidemics, philosophers' views on epidemics, the relationship between nation-state/national identity and epidemics, the existence of global capitalism in the context of epidemics, the effects of the epidemic theme on audiences in visual arts, especially cinema, and the concepts of subjectivity, prohibition, isolation, loneliness, old age, and normalcy in relation to superstructure institutions during the epidemic process.