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Informationen zum Autor Shelly Grabe is an associate professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Crus. She works in partnership with grassroots women's organizations in Nicaragua and Tanzania to champion the activism and voices of marginalized women in the pursuit of women's human rights. She uses a multimethod approach from within psychology to provide the currently missing - but necessary - links between transnational feminism, the discourse on women's human rights and globalization, as well as the international attention given to women's "empowerment" to help support strategies and interventions undertaken by local women aimed at social change. Klappentext Narrating a Psychology of Resistance analyzes first-hand testimony from the Movimiento Aut¿nomo de Mujeres in Nicaragua - a coordinated mobilization of women that has weathered unremitting power differentials characterized by patriarchy and capitalism - to examine the psychology of resistance in order to revolutionize societies who have suffered under brutal regimes. Zusammenfassung The Movimiento Autónomo de Mujeres (Women's Autonomous Movement) in Nicaragua - birthed in part from the Sandinista Revolution of the 1980s - represents one of the largest, most diverse, and most autonomous women's movements in all of Latin America.While it's true that scholars across a wide range of disciplines have written invariably about this social movement (and have been instrumental in arguing that these women are not mere victims, but individuals who have worked hard to resist oppression and fight injustice for decades) what remains missing from this body of work is scholarship aimed at understanding, specifically, the psychology of resistance; in other words, what are the psychological mechanisms and methodologies that emerge from the margins that determine the kind of social action that revolutionizes societies?Investigating the psychosocial processes behind resistance is critical to understanding a commitment to justice and the development of subjectivity necessary for enacting the political activity required for social transformation. Psychology, in particular, as author Shelly Grabe argues, is positioned to engage in a systematic exploration of the links between social and political conditions that determine how, why, and under what circumstances resistance emerges. Narrating a Psychology of Resistance documents the first-hand accounts of the Nicaraguan women's Movimiento: a coordinated mobilization of women that has weathered unremitting power differentials characterized by patriarchy and capitalism. In this collection of testimonios, Grabe gives voice to these extraordinary women and closely examines how psychological processes that emerge in response to sociopolitical oppression can lead to gendered justice and the revolutionizing of societies at large. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword: Bridging Activism and Academic Research: My Position Introduction: Transnational Feminist Liberation Psychology and Feminists' Stories of Social Justice in the Movimiento Autónomo de Mujeres of Nicaragua Section One - Citizen Democracy and Knowledge: Leveling the Playing Field by Creating Participatory Spaces 1: Problematizing the Struggle for Freedom Through Contraction: "Freedom should be wide enough so that every person can decide what to participate in and what to build towards or construct." Testimonio from Juanita Jiménez 2: Resisting Exclusion with Oppositional Participation: "I was excluded from hearing what the males in the house were talking about; particularly if they were talking about politics because that was not, you know, ladies' business." Testimonio from Sofía Montenegro 3: The Role of Education and Knowledge in the Building of Citizen Subjectivity "As long as you keep people in the dark, not knowing anything, of course you will be able to do what you wish with them and manipulat...
