The Psychology of Global Crises and Crisis Politics: Intervention, Resistance, Decolonization

✍ Scribed by Irene Strasser, Martin Dege

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 365
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This edited volume brings together some of the most prominent scholars in the fields of theoretical, critical, and political psychology to examine crisis phenomena. The book investigates the role of psychology as a science in times of crisis, discusses how socio-political change affects the discipline and profession, and renders psychological interventions as forms of political action.

The authors examine how notions of crisis and the interpretation of crisis scenarios are heavily intertwined with governmental and state interests. Seeking to disentangle individual subjectivity, subjectification, and science as forms of politics, the volume works toward an explicit goal to decolonize psychology. The chapters elaborate on the importance of the psychological sciences in times of crisis and the role of psychologists as practitioners. Ultimately, the diverse contributions underline the connection of scientific theory, practice, and politics.

Interdisciplinary in scope and wide-ranging in its perspectives, this timely work will appeal to students and scholars of theoretical and political psychology, critical psychology, and cultural studies.

 

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Notes on Contributors
1 Crises, Politics, Psychology—An Introduction
References
Part I Decolonization
2 Assembling the Psycurity Accord in Response to the Early COVID-19 Outbreak in Aotearoa New Zealand
Introduction
Contextualizing the Psycurity Accord
Pandemics, Kaci Hickox, and COVID-19 in the Courts
The Psycurity Accord Is Mediated
Balancing Surveillance and Privacy Within the Accord
Returning to an Inequitable System
Further Reflections on the Psycurity Accord
References
3 Amerindian Paths Through Recurrent Sociocultural Crises
The Work of Amerindian Support Network: An Illustration
Conflicts from the Past
Self and Dialogical Multiplication
Pemomba eme
Limits of Understanding Without Participation
Final Considerations
References
4 The Pandemic is a Mirror: Decolonizing Psychology and Racism in Times of COVID-19 Crisis
Self, Positionality, and Theory
The Crisis of the Pandemic and People: Understanding Coloniality in Decolonial Frameworks
Race, Coloniality, and Psychology
Colorblind Ideology in Pandemic Times
Structural Racism, Racial Coloniality, and Black Communities
Concluding Thoughts
References
5 The Sense of a Pandemic: Test, Trials, and Turbulence in the Indian Subcontinent
Background
News: Good and Bad
Crises and Consequences
Fear and Uncertainty
Self-Other Dynamics
The Situation in India
Method, Measures, and the Media
Turbulence
Physical Distancing and Social Solidarity
Cultural Patterns and the Exposure During a Crisis
Cultural Processes and Their Study
‘Asia Is Not Well Understood’
Dharavi: From a Pandemic Hotspot to Plasma Donations
Looking Ahead: Uncomfortable Questions in Post-Coronial Times
Crisis Talk
Lessons Learned?
Summing-Up: Lessons for ‘Post-Coronial’ Psychology
References
6 Necropolitics, Epistemic Injustice, and the Recurring Crises of Psychology
Necropolitics
Hermeneutical Injustice
References
7 Psychologies Otherwise & Earthwise: Pluriversal Approaches to the Crises of Climate, Equity, and Health
The Climate Crisis
Coercive Social Hierarchies
Biodiversity
Impact: Racial/Health Inequities
Transitions, Alternatives, Interventions: Psychologies Otherwise, a Pluriversal Approach
Psychologies Otherwise
Conclusion
References
Part II Interventions
8 Eco-Anxiety and Psycho-Terratic Paradigms of Practice: A View From Australia
Australian Bushfires and Climate Change
A National Crisis
Clinical Psychology Ill-Equipped
Terra-Psychology as an Alternative Paradigm
Practice Hypotheses: Three Provocations
Aboriginal Social and Emotional Well-Being
Albrecht’s Eco-Existentialism
Nichterlein, Deleuze, and Psychology
Adventures in Method
Humboldt, Romantic Science and Ecocide: A Walk in the Woods (Degen et al., 2019)
Climate Activists: Mapping Place-Based Biographies
Kelly, Albrecht, Rhodes
Conclusion: Hope
Nature
References
9 Lockdown Vistas: Time, Space, Solidarity, Action
Pre-View
Introduction
‘Lockdown’
Beyond Occupation/Petrification
“We Are All Enemies Now”
The Lost Middle
Space, Time, and the Logic of Subjective Construction
Becoming “Actional,” “Scaling Up,” and Solidarity
Anticipating Lockdown Nostalgia
Beyond Waiting
References
10 Pandemic, Fatalism, and Psychology’s Paralysis: How to Promote the Strengthening of People and Groups in Brazil
Fatalism—A Challenge for Latin American Psychology
Strengthen, Face, and Overcome—The Proposals for Psychology
Final Considerations
References
11 Preparing for the Wrong Emergency: Visions of Generation Changing Events
References
Part III Science and Politics
12 Pseudo-Science and ‘Fake’ News: ‘Inventing’ Epidemics and the Police State
Pseudo-Science and Its Shadows
Lockdown
Contagion
Inventing ‘Pseudo-Science’: On Science and Its Discontents
Necropolitics in an Injectable
Postphenomenology and Conspiracy, or: Vaccination and National Security
How to Write a Narrative for a Pandemic
References
13 Crisis Within Crisis Within Crisis: Global Pandemic; Mass Unemployment; Anti-Capitalist Critique?
Introductory Remarks
A Critical Frame of Reference
Coronavirus Pandemic: Pre- and Post-Pandemic Unemployment
The Relationship Between Unemployment and Psychological Misery, Morbidity, and Mortality According to the Psy-Complex
Critique of the Psy-Complexification of Neoliberal Capitalist Violence in Relation to Unemployment
References
14 The Covid-19 Pandemic and the Crisis of Signification in Israel/Palestine: Biopolitics, Reinvented Communism, and Conspiracy Theories
The Pandemic in Israel/Palestine: A Nakbah to end all Nakbahs?
Biopolitics and New Forms of Solidarity in Israel/Palestine: The Necropolitical Turn
The End of Conspiracy Theories: Liberation for all
References
15 Viral Resistance
Viral Crisis
Far-Right State-Oriented Response
Far-Right Libertarian Response
Neoliberal Response
Liberal Response
Ecosocialist Response
Distance and Time
Four Elements of Viral Resistance
References
16 Essay on Fascist Subjectivity
Fascist Subjectivity and Political Fascism
Fascist Subjectivity as a Socio-Relational Phenomenon
Political Economy: Capitalism
Racism
Subhumanism
Resisting Fascist Subjectivity
References
17 Decolonize Psychology
Index