I am a social and political psychologist whose research seeks to support dialogue between citizens and their governments on vexed political questions such as migration, sovereignty, European and Global citizenship.
I moved from the Scottish Government to the Open University in 2007. As a psychologist I am particularly interested in the conditions when people move from public opinion to public dialogue.
My starting point is that public decision-making on migration, citizenship and the boundaries of belonging often inter-relate with an individual's own degree of migration-mobility. I measure this using a 10-point Migration-Mobility Continuum. I have set out the relationship between the MMC and integration, citizenship, populism, sense of home and one-world narrative (OWN) in a series of open-access publications.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 1483 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3931-3026 |
| X/Twitter | https://twitter.com/DrKesiMOpen |
| ResearchGate | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kesi_Mahendran |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
Migration governance
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Governance actors
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Migration policy and law
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Migration research and theory
Disciplines
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Disciplines
Roles
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British Psychological Society - Political Psychology Section
Non-governmental Organisation, United Kingdom
Chair-Elect -
The Open University
University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology
Research
Populism versus the people: How citizen's social representations of home destabilize national populism's territorial vision
| Authors | Kesi Mahendran, Anthony English, Sue Nieland |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
From Polarized We/They Public Opinion on European Integration Towards Social Representations of Public Dialogue
| Authors | Kesi Mahendran |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Political Psychology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Public narratives on human mobility: Countering technocratic and humanitarian refugee narratives with a “one‐world” solidarity narrative
| Authors | Kesi Mahendran |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Discursive Governance in Politics, Policy, and the Public Sphere
| Year | 2015 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Introduction: Discursive Governance: Operationalization and Applications
| Authors | Umut Korkut, Kesi Mahendran, Gregg Bucken-Knapp, ... |
| Year | 2015 |
| Book Title | Discursive Governance in Politics, Policy, and the Public Sphere |
Public Narratives of European Citizenship—the Dialogical Citizen in the European Public Sphere
| Authors | Kesi Mahendran, Ima Jackson, Anubhuti Kapoor |
| Year | 2015 |
| Book Title | Discursive Governance in Politics, Policy, and the Public Sphere |
Suggested Research
Multilateralism under Fire: How Public Narratives of Multilateralism and Ideals of a Border-Free World Repudiate the Populist Re-Bordering Narrative
| Authors | Kesi Mahendran, Anthony English, Sue Nieland |
| Year | 2023 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
I’ll never forget: Remembering of past events within the Silent Generation as a challenge to the political mobilisation of nostalgia
| Authors | Sue Nieland, Kesi Mahendran, Sarah Crafter |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Culture & Psychology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Reification and the Refugee: Using a Counterposing Dialogical Analysis to Unlock a Frozen Category
| Authors | Kesi Mahendran, Nicola Magnusson, Caroline Howarth, ... |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Social and Political Psychology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |