Unweaving the Threads: Territoriality, National Ownership of Land and Asylum Policy

Kostakopoulou, Dora; Thomas, Robert

doi:10.1163/1571816041518778

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“…Legal scholars have shown that notions of territorialism and exclusive ownership of land have been interwoven in nationalist narratives in favour of immigration restrictions (Kostakopoulou & Thomas, 2004 ). Furthermore, Brylka et al ( 2015 ) have found that collective psychological ownership of Finns is related to more negative attitudes towards Russian-speaking immigrants.…”

Section: Intergroup Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Collective psychological ownership as a new angle for understanding group dynamics

Martinović

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2023

European Review of Social Psychology

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Even without legal ownership, groups can experience objects, places, and ideas as belonging to them (‘ours’). This state of mind–collective psychological ownership–is understudied in social psychology, yet it is central to many intergroup conflicts and stewardship behaviour. We discuss our research on the psychological processes and social-psychological implications of collective psychological ownership. We studied territorial ownership, in different parts of the world and at different geographical levels, offering not only a cross-national but also conceptual replication of the processes. Our findings show that collective psychological ownership is inferred based on primo-occupancy, investment, and formation. Further, we demonstrate that collective psychological ownership can have positive intragroup and negative intergroup outcomes, which are guided by perceived group responsibility and exclusive determination right. We then discuss ownership threat (losing what is ‘ours’), and we consider the role of group identification in ownership-related processes. We conclude by providing directions for future research.

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Section: Intergroup Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Collective psychological ownership as a new angle for understanding group dynamics

Martinović

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2023

European Review of Social Psychology

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“…Such a citizenship model requires a reconceptualization of territorial space as a 'dwelling space' for residents and, thus, a move away from the nationalist narratives which cultivate 'the belief that territory is a form of property to be owned by a particular national group, either because the latter has established a ''first occupancy'' claim or because it regards this territory as a formative part of its identity'. 73 In a world in which wars and systematic violations of human rights push millions to seek asylum across borders every year, this rethinking is imperative. 74 In the second place, and by way of example, from this viewpoint it is reasonable 'to prefer global redistributive justice to open borders.…”

Section: J Agnewmentioning

confidence: 99%