This Handbook provides the requisite theoretical and methodological guidelines for undertaking social research addressing relevant contemporary social issues.

Preface; Part I. Foundations: 1. Social representations: a revolutionary paradigm? Gordon Sammut, Eleni Andreouli, George Gaskell and Jaan Valsiner; 2. Representation in action Wolfgang Wagner; 3. Social representations and societal psychology Claudia Abreu Lopes and George Gaskell; 4. On (social) representations and the iconoclastic impetus Martin W. Bauer; 5. Researching social representations Uwe Flick, Juliet Foster and Sabine Caillaud; Part II. Conceptual Developments: 6. Central core theory Pascal Moliner and Jean-Claude Abric; 7. Attitudes, social representations and points of view Gordon Sammut; 8. Communication and the microgenetic construction of knowledge Charis Psaltis; 9. Image, social imaginary and social representations Angela Arruda; 10. Collective remembering as a process of social representation Brady Wagoner; 11. Cognitive polyphasia, knowledge encounters and public spheres Sandra Jovchelovitch and Jacqueline Priego-Hernández; 12. Making community: diversity, movement and interdependence Caroline Howarth, Flora Cornish and Alex Gillespie; Part III. New Directions: 13. Social representations and social construction: the evolutionary perspective of installation theory Saadi Lahlou; 14. From representations to representing: on social representations and discursive-rhetorical psychology Stephen Gibson; 15. Positioning theory and social representations Rom Harré and Fathali Moghaddam; 16. Social semiotics and social representations Giuseppe Veltri; 17. Identity process theory Glynis Breakwell; Part IV. Applications: 18. Representations of world history James H. Liu and Chris G. Sibley; 19. Social order and political legitimacy Christian Staerklé; 20. Social representations of sustainability: researching time, institution, conflict and communication Paula Castro; 21. Social representations of national identity in culturally diverse societies Eleni Andreouli and Xenia Chryssochoou; 22. The essentialised refugee: representations of racialized 'Others' Martha Augoustinos, Scott Hanson-Easey and Clemence Due; 23. Exploring stability and change through social representations: towards an understanding of religious communities Mohammad Sartawi; 24. Of worlds and objects: scientific knowledge and its publics Nicole Kronberger; 25. The self-control ethos Helene Joffe; 26. Social representations of infectious diseases Véronique Eicher and Adrian Bangerter; 27. Social change, social marketing and social representations Mary Anne Lauri.