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Allegories of Pathology

Roy, Sneharika. 2018. A Poetics of Neurosis. Postcolonial scholar Sneharika Roy claims that in narratives of traumatized American expatriates, physical wounds serve as metaphors for psychological turmoil. She provides…

The parasocial contact hypothesis

Schiappa, Edward, Peter B. Gregg, and Dean E. Hewes. 2005. “The parasocial contact hypothesis.” Communication monographs 72, no. 1: 92-115. This paper introduces the concept of parasocial contact, where communication…

An embodied everyday peace in the midst of violence

Helen Berents (2015) Peacebuilding, 3:2, 1-14 This text examines the stories of marginalised young people in Colombia who are oftentimes excluded from the very discussions of violence and reconciliation that most…

The nature of prejudice

Allport, Gordon Willard, Kenneth Clark, and Thomas Pettigrew. 1954. This text, Gordon Allport’s “The Nature of Prejudice”, forms the bedrock of intergroup contact theory. The book introduces the concepts of prejudice…