Reddy Geetha, Gleibs Ilka H
The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa.
Br J Soc Psychol. 2025 Apr;64(2):e12848. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12848.
This paper sheds light on how spaces become contested sites for identity construction and negotiation to take place. Applying the Social Representations Approach, a qualitative study of 10 focus group discussions (n = 39), was conducted in Singapore, Malaysia and the UK to explore how, and why racialised identity construction changed in each socio-political context. The study challenged two underlying assumptions in social psychology: (1) that the meaning of the racialised category holds constant across time and space, and (2) there exists a pan-racial identification among Asian identities, for example, which at times allows for racialised categories to be manipulated as variables. We argue that the distinction between the country that the racialised identity originates from, country of birth (or citizenship) for the individual and country that the individual manages the identity in, is important in understanding the changes in the psychology of racialised identities. By taking into consideration the interplay of temporality, space, social relations and social systems, this paper presents a contribution in the form of the concept "politicized psycho-geographies".
本文揭示了空间如何成为身份建构与协商的争议场所。运用社会表征方法，在新加坡、马来西亚和英国对10个焦点小组讨论（n = 39）进行了定性研究，以探讨在每个社会政治背景下，种族化身份建构如何以及为何发生变化。该研究挑战了社会心理学中的两个基本假设：（1）种族化类别在时间和空间上的意义保持不变；（2）例如，在亚洲身份之间存在泛种族认同，这有时使得种族化类别可以作为变量被操纵。我们认为，种族化身份起源的国家、个人的出生国（或国籍）以及个人管理该身份的国家之间的区别，对于理解种族化身份心理的变化很重要。通过考虑时间性、空间、社会关系和社会系统的相互作用，本文以“政治化心理地理学”这一概念的形式做出了贡献。
