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This handbook offers a unique critical, and cross-disciplinary approach to the study of community psychology, showing how it can address the systemic challenges arising from multiple crises facing people across the world.
List of contents
Introduction: Facing Global Crises
Part 1: Community Psychology Through a Critical Lens 1.
Epistemicide and Epistemic Freedom: Reflections for a Decolonising Community Psychology 2. Contributions of Marxism to Community Psychology: Emancipation in Debate 3. Community Psychology and Political Economy 4. Grounding Community Psychology in Practices of Ecopsychosocial Accompaniment 5. Commmunity Psychology and War: Structural Violence and Institutional Silence
Part 2: Community Psychology Through a Praxis Lens 6.
Interrogating Chilean Community Psychology in Times of Crisis 7. Psychologists Taking Action for LGBT+ Rights and Well-being in the Philippines 8. Psychosocial Accompaniment from a Community Approach to Victims of Internal Forced Displacement in Colombia 9. Community Trust and Community Psychology Interventions 10. The Others: Discovering and Connecting Community Life 11. A Call for a Digital Community Psychology 12. The Interface of Community and Well-Being in Childhood: A Critical Perspective 13. Disaster and Community Psychology: Focusing on the Power of Youth and Children and their Peer Effects in Disaster Prevention and Community Empowerment 14. Community Arts for Critical Community Psychology Praxis: Towards Decolonisation and Aboriginal Self-determination
Part 3: Community Psychology Through an Ecological Lens 15.
Climate justice: In Pursuit of a Practical Utopia: Transitioning Towards Climate Justice 16. Participation for a Better Future: Communities of Action for the Environment in Aotearoa New Zealand 17. Exploring the Ecotone of Critical Food Studies in Community Psychology: A Framework for Addressing Well-Being Through Food System Transformation 18. Community Social Psychology and Nature Conservation
Part 4: Community Psychology Through a Reflective Lens 19. Community Psychology and the Liberation Process of First Nations in Guatemala 20. Scholar Activism: Mothering; Disability and Academic Activism 21. Building Partnerships for Community-Based Service Learning in Poverty-stricken and Systemically Disadvantaged Communities 22. Mobilising Critical Consciousness in Educational Contexts: A Community Psychology Approach 23. Working with Life Stories for Transformational Learning: Tracking Our Positionality in an Educational Dialogical Space During COVID-19
Part 5: Community Psychology Through the Lens of Hope 24.
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About the author
Carolyn Kagan is Professor Emerita of Community Social Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She is retired and is now a scholar-activist, involved with projects that connect localism, environmental and social justice, and community resilience.
Jacqui Akhurst is a Professor Emerita of Rhodes University, South Africa. Her community-based research utilizes Action Research or Activity Theory. Her recent focus has been on community-based service learning in higher education.
Jaime Alfaro is Professor and researcher at the Center of Studies of Well-Being and Social Coexistence, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile. He has a PhD in social science, University of Girona, Spain.
Rebecca Lawthom is Professor of Community Psychology and Head of the School of Education at the University of Sheffield, UK. She works with others in participatory and collaborative ways to achieve valued change. Her research interests cohere around marginalisation and she writes within the fields of disability, ageing and methods.
Michael Richards is a critical community psychologist who is deputy programme leader of a child and adolescent mental health programme and deputy director of the Arts and Wellbeing Research Centre at Edge Hill University, UK.
Alba Zambrano is an academic of the Department of Psychology Universidad de La Frontera, Chile, in the field of Community Psychology. Research interests include community strengthening processes, prevention of psychosocial problems based on evidence and socio-community inclusion. She is director of the Life Skills Program UFRO JUNAEB agreement.
Summary
This handbook offers a unique critical, and cross-disciplinary approach to the study of community psychology, showing how it can address the systemic challenges arising from multiple crises facing people across the world.
