Decolonial Enactments in Community Psychology: Decoloniality in the Global South

✍ Scribed by Shose Kessi (editor), Shahnaaz Suffla (editor), Mohamed Seedat (editor)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 283
• Series: Community Psychology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This edited volume in the Community Psychology Book Series emphasizes applications of community psychology for disrupting dominant and hegemonic power relations. The book explores domains of work that are located within critical community psychology, as well as work that is conventionally not self-defined as community psychology but which draws on and contributes to the foundations and enactments of critical and liberatory community psychology. Specifically, the book advances conceptions and praxes for community psychology grounded within a decolonial framework. The volume heeds the call for a generation of approaches to community psychology that link local struggles to broader questions of power, identity, and knowledge production, bringing together examples of praxes from different contexts as a political project of highlighting indigenous struggles toward self-determination. Collectively, the chapters in this book embody a decolonial agenda for community psychology that foregrounds social justice;  the lives and knowledges of the marginalized and oppressed; epistemic disobedience and transdisciplinarity; and decolonial aesthetics. The book is divided into two parts - Part I: Conceptions of Engagement for Community Psychology delves into the conceptual framework for a decolonial community psychology, and Part II: Modes of Enactments and Praxes for Community Psychology builds on these theoretical advancements through examples of praxis in different contexts. The audience for the book includes scholars, researchers, practitioners, activists, and students located within community psychology specifically, as well as disciplines within the health and social sciences, and arts and humanities more broadly.

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword
The Community Psychology Book Series: A Dialogical Decolonising Space
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Contributors
Part I: Conceptions of Engagement for Community Psychology
Towards A Decolonial Community Psychology: Derivatives, Disruptions and Disobediences
A Fundamental Quest for Social Justice
A Critical Focus on the Marginalised and Oppressed
Epistemic Disobedience and Transdisciplinarity
Embracing A Decolonial Aesthetic
A Critical Assembly of Theoretical, Methodological and Praxical Resources
Conceptions of Engagement for Community Psychology
Modes of Enactment and Praxes for Community Psychology
References
Liberatory Africa(n)-Centred Community Psychology of Psychosocial Change
Introduction
A Note on A Method of Thinking and Writing Together
How to Situate Africa Within Community Psychology to Re-write the Discipline?
In What Ways Might Neville Alexander Be Useful in Unearthing Socially Just Africa(n)-Centred Critical Community Psychologies?
How Can Africa(n)-Centring Psychologists Within Communities Locate the Psychological Within Social Change?
Concluding Thoughts
References
Decolonising Participatory Action Research in Community Psychology
Introduction
Decolonial Thinking and the Decolonial Turn
The Roots of PAR
The Western Approach
Perspectives from the Global South
Decolonising Participation, Action and Research in PAR
Participation Not Tokenism
Action-Oriented Transformation
Research Justice for Decoloniality
Ten Axioms for a Decolonial PAR Praxis
Participatory Relational Engagement
Socio-historical Inquiry
Interrupting Power
Critical Reflexivity
Sovereignty
Tensegrity as Balance
Co-constructing Knowledge
Community Determined Applied Action
Emancipatory Transformational Praxes
Decolonial Love
Conclusion
References
Decentering “Community” in Community Psychology: Towards Radical Relationality and Resistance
The Metanarrative of “Community” in Community Psychology
Community as Other: The Academy: Community Binary
Sense of Community: Troubling Colonial Legacies in Theory and Applications
Decolonial Possibilities for Community Psychology: Towards Resistance, Desire and Radical Relationality
An Orientation Towards Desire
Epistemic (Re)positionings, Centering Relational Ethics: Reconfiguring the Role of Community Psychologists
Toward a Decolonial Education and Curriculum: Reading Against the “Canons”
Concluding Remarks
References
Part II: Modes of Enactments and Praxes for Community Psychology
Reflections on Radical Love and Rebellion: Towards Decolonial Solidarity in Community Psychology Praxis
Introduction
Emphasising Decolonial Praxis: De-centering Psychology Definitions and Standards when Seeking to Create Revolutionary Relationships and Understandings
Being ‘Engulfed by Love’ as We Remember and Resist: Decolonial Solidarity as Crafting of Revolutionary Relationships in the Face of Perpetual Pain, Separation, and Devastation
Where Do We Stand? and With Whom? Decolonial Solidarity as Standing In-Between, and with Love, Against Colonial Ideologies and Multiple Degrees of Incarceration
Decolonial Solidarity as ‘Communal Flourishing’: Restorative Enactments of Interdependence, Abundance, and Transformation
Ending Reflections and Questions
References
Accompanying Aboriginal Communities Through Arts and Cultural Practice: Decolonial Enactments of Place-Based Community Research
Critical Community Psychology and Community Arts and Cultural Development: Theoretical, Conceptual and Methodological Resources
Decolonial and Liberation Psychology
Culture, Narrative and Stories
Community Arts and Cultural Development for Counter Storytelling and Healing
Enacting a Decolonial Agenda: Building Relationships, Making Art, and Reigniting Community
Context: Aboriginal Communities of the Wheatbelt
Laying Foundations Through Consultation and Community Workshops
Voices of the Wheatbelt: Making Place Through Photography
Responding to Social Suffering: Naming Pain and Imagining Hope
Remembering and Counter Storytelling: Memory, Portraits and Legacy
Using Storytelling to Record and Create a Community Archive
Summary and Conclusion
References
Dialogue and Dialogue Theatre: Processes Toward Decolonial Praxis
Introduction
Origins of Dialogue Theatre
South Sudan Voice
Dialogue as Conflict Transformation Process
Using Dialogue as Data Collection
Reflecting on South Sudanese Voice as Decolonial Enactment: A Dialogue
Discussion
Conclusion
References
Constructing Race and Place in South Africa: A Photovoice Study with ‘Coloured’ Men in Bishop Lavis
Place Identity, and Lived Experience
Bishop Lavis: Brief Overview
Why Young ‘Coloured’ Masculinities?
Engaging Youth Using Photovoice
Constructing Race and Place in Bishop Lavis
Constructions of Community and the “Lekker” Bishop Lavis
The Construction of the “Unsafe” Bishop Lavis
Bishop Lavis: A Classed, Raced and Gendered Community
Concluding Thoughts
References
Towards Alternative Spatial Imaginaries: The Case of ‘Reclaim the City’
Interpretive Framework: Situating Space in Decolonial Community Psychology
Participatory Action Research
Conceptualising Spatial Imaginaries and Place Identity
The Colonial Spatial Imaginary
The Colonial Spatial Imaginary in Cape Town’s History
The Colonial Era: The Cape Colony
The Apartheid Era: Spatial Apartheid in Cape Town
Post-Apartheid Cape Town
A Participatory Action Research Project
Findings: Challenging the Colonial Spatial Imaginary
The Work of Reclaim the City: Building Alternative Spatial Imaginaries
Conclusion: Building Alternative Spatial Imaginaries
References
A Decolonising Approach to Health Promotion
Introduction
Biomedicine: A Gift that Keeps on Giving
Social Determinants of Health, Discourse and Disciplinary Decadence
Internalized Discourses as Barrier
Shifting the Discourse: Building a Decolonial Epistemology on Health
Decoloniality as Praxis for Health
Conclusion
References
Decolonising Australian Psychology: The Influences of Aboriginal Psychologists
Introduction
Context of Invasion and Colonisation in Australia
Decolonisation
Ongoing Processes of Colonising and Decolonising in Psychology
A Collective Momentum of Aboriginal Psychologists
The Growth in Numbers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Psychologists
Aboriginal Psychologists and Significant Gatherings
The Australian Indigenous Psychologists Association
Examples from Two Aboriginal Psychologists
Example 1: Yvonne Clark
Example 2: Tanja Hirvonen
Shared Commitments
Summary and Conclusion
References
Towards an Expansive Conceptual/Methodological Approach to Everyday Violence
Introduction
Immediate Context
2015: Visible Disruption of Denial in South Africa
The Disrupting Denial Approach
Structure of Invisible/Visible Violence Conceptual Framework
Cultural Violence
Structural Violence
Psychological Violence
Physical Violence
Denial
Boundary-Crossing Scholarship as a Bridge to Transdisciplinarity
Psychology
Economics
Criminology
Political Science
Drawing Together Key Lessons Learnt from Below
References
The Past, Present, and Future Entangled: Memory-Work as Decolonial Praxis
The Past as Decolonial Battleground
Memory-Imagination Interplay
Researching Memory-Work: Convergences Between Critical Ethnography and Critical Community Psychology
Living Attentionally with Others
Reflexivity
In the Zone of Nonbeing
The Birth of a Liberation Struggle
Re-Existence: The MILF’s Will to Remember
Transmitting and Framing the Past
Unevenness of Memory-Work
Decolonial Futures
References
Index