Decolonial Psychoanalysis - Towards Critical Islamophobia Studies

This book uses a critical decolonial psychology approach to conceptualize everyday Islamophobia. The author draws on theoretical resources situated within the discursive turn, such as decoloniality/transmodernity and carries out an archeology of (counter)terrorism, a genealogy of the conceptual Muslim, and a Žižekian ideology critique.

List of contents

LIST OF FIGURES
PREFACE
SERIES EDITOR FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
1. THEORIZING AND RESEARCHING ISLAMOPHOBIA/ISLAMOPHILIA IN THE AGE OF TRUMP
2. THE MASTER’S DISCOURSE: AN ARCHEOLOGY OF (COUNTER)TERRORISM AND A GENEALOGY OF THE CONCEPTUAL MUSLIM
3. THE UNIVERSITY DISCOURSE: THE PSYCHOLOGIZATION OF ISLAMOPHOBIA
4. THE HYSTERIC’S DISCOURSE: EPISTEMIC RESISTANCE, OR US MUSLIMS AS ETHICAL SUBJECTS
5. THE ANALYST’S DISCOURSE: ONTIC RESISTANCE, OR US MUSLIMS AS POLITICAL SUBJECTS
6. TOWARDS A RADICAL MASTER: FROM DECOLONIAL PSYCHOANALYSIS TO LIBERATION PRAXIS
REFERENCES

About the author

Robert K. Beshara is a critical psychologist, interested in theorizing subjectivity vis-à-vis ideology through radical qualitative research (e.g., discourse analysis). In addition to being a scholar-activist, he is a fine artist with a background in film, theater, and music. He holds two terminal degrees: a Ph.D. in Psychology: Consciousness and Society from the University of West Georgia and an M.F.A. in Independent Film and Digital Imaging from Governors State University, Illinois. He currently works as an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Northern New Mexico College. For more information visit: www.robertbeshara.com

Summary

This book uses a critical decolonial psychology approach to conceptualize everyday Islamophobia. The author draws on theoretical resources situated within the discursive turn, such as decoloniality/transmodernity and carries out an archeology of (counter)terrorism, a genealogy of the conceptual Muslim, and a Žižekian ideology critique.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Beshara, Robert K. Beshara
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9780367173494
• ISBN: 978-0-367-17349-4
• No. of pages: 162
• Series: Concepts for Critical Psychology; Concepts for Critical Psychology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Social, group or collective psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Religious intolerance, persecution and conflict, Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)