Decolonial Enactments in Community Psychology

This edited volume in the Community Psychology Book Series emphasizes applications of community psychology for disrupting dominant and hegemonic power relations. It 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. The book advances conceptions and praxes for community psychology grounded within a decolonial framework, bringing together examples of praxes from different contexts as a political project of highlighting indigenous struggles toward self-determination.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 280 pages
Publication date: 03 December 2022
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

This edited volume in the Community Psychology Book Series emphasizes the applications of community psychology for challenging dominant and hegemonic power relations. The book explores domains of work that are situated 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 practices for community psychology grounded within a decolonial framework. The volume responds to 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 prioritizes social justice; the lives and knowledge 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.

Weight: 450g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030752033
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022