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Offering a unique set of case studies that invites readers to
question and reimagine the concept of community engagement, this
collected work provides an overview and analysis of numerous,
creative participatory research methods designed to improve
well-being at both the individual and societal level. In a world
where there are enormous differences in the wealth and health of
people, it is increasingly recognized that sustainable peace
requires both a broad---based public commitment to nonviolence
combined with noticeable increments in the wellbeing of people who
occupy the lowest socioeconomic strata of societies. This volume
focuses on the latter-how to use qualitative research methods to
improve well-being of research participants, and thus, the wider
society. The participatory research examples described in these
chapters are meant to encourage researchers, scholars, and
practitioners to question assumed knowledge about community
engagement research and practice, and to inspire social
justice-oriented scholarship. The cases studies and methods
portrayed are as varied as the situations and cultures in which
they take place. In most of the case studies, the personal is
linked to the political with a social justice imperative as
participants from marginalized communities express an understanding
of their own position within power hierarchies, deconstruct power
relations, and experience a sense of agency. In other instances,
the methods are no less participatory but the aim is more focused
on inner and outer harmony, psychological wellbeing, conflict
resolution and intergroup reconciliation. In all the cases studies,
there is a strong emphasis on methods in which community members
are at the center of efforts to promote social change. The methods
described include group storytelling, community arts, asset
mapping, dialogues, creative writing, embroidery, filmmaking,
Photovoice, "writing back" to power, and other means of engaging in
emancipatory praxis and promoting personal wellbeing. Taken
together, the chapters illustrate creative ways in which community
members, embedded in disadvantaged contexts, can engage in a
dynamic process that stimulates individual and collective agency.
Ultimately, this volume will provide readers with a deeper
understanding of a wide range of creative, qualitative research
methods, and will encourage establishment of an effective social
justice agenda essential to human wellbeing and sustainable peace.
With the major goal of building an inclusive international
community that promotes peace-related research and action, this
volume reflects on local, national and global peace engagement and
works towards transdisciplinary understandings of the role of
psychology in peace, conflict, and violence. Drawn primarily from
14th Biennial International Symposium on the Contributions of
Psychology, the chapters focus on peacemaking--or the pursuit of
harmony in human relations-- and peacebuilding--or equity in human
relations-- with a special emphasis on voices from typically
underrepresented areas in psychology, such as the Global South. In
order to move beyond a Western-centered idea of peace psychology,
the volume is divided into two major parts. The first half of the
volume puts an emphasis on peace psychology research and praxis in
a number of geohistorical contexts, including Malaysia, Northern
Ireland, Thailand, and Kashmir, that bear on conflict, harmony and
equity in human relations. Chapters in the second half of the
volume fulfill the mandate of Biennial Symposia; namely, to create
more equity in the production of peace theory and praxis by
bringing forward the voices of scholars and change agents that are
often unheard in peace discourses, including a number of scholars
and chapters from South Africa. Additionally, throughout the
chapters, the authors and editors of the volume emphasize
emancipatory agendas as an important alternative to militarism and
state-sponsored violence. With the aim of bringing forward voices
from cultures and situations that are typically not included or
highly visible in peace discourses, Enlarging the Scope of Peace
Psychology in Invited and Invented Spaces: African and
World-Regional Contributions is a thought-provoking, timely, and
informative work. Psychologists, anthropologists, sociologists,
political scientists, activists, public-policy makers, and all
those interested in promoting peace and justice, are sure to find
this an invaluable and illuminating resource.
This edited volume in the Community Psychology Book Series
emphasizes applications of community psychology for disrupting
dominant and hegemonic power relations. The book 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.
Specifically, the book advances conceptions and praxes for
community psychology grounded within a decolonial framework. The
volume heeds 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 foregrounds social justice; the lives
and knowledges 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.
With the major goal of building an inclusive international
community that promotes peace-related research and action, this
volume reflects on local, national and global peace engagement and
works towards transdisciplinary understandings of the role of
psychology in peace, conflict, and violence. Drawn primarily from
14th Biennial International Symposium on the Contributions of
Psychology, the chapters focus on peacemaking--or the pursuit of
harmony in human relations-- and peacebuilding--or equity in human
relations-- with a special emphasis on voices from typically
underrepresented areas in psychology, such as the Global South. In
order to move beyond a Western-centered idea of peace psychology,
the volume is divided into two major parts. The first half of the
volume puts an emphasis on peace psychology research and praxis in
a number of geohistorical contexts, including Malaysia, Northern
Ireland, Thailand, and Kashmir, that bear on conflict, harmony and
equity in human relations. Chapters in the second half of the
volume fulfill the mandate of Biennial Symposia; namely, to create
more equity in the production of peace theory and praxis by
bringing forward the voices of scholars and change agents that are
often unheard in peace discourses, including a number of scholars
and chapters from South Africa. Additionally, throughout the
chapters, the authors and editors of the volume emphasize
emancipatory agendas as an important alternative to militarism and
state-sponsored violence. With the aim of bringing forward voices
from cultures and situations that are typically not included or
highly visible in peace discourses, Enlarging the Scope of Peace
Psychology in Invited and Invented Spaces: African and
World-Regional Contributions is a thought-provoking, timely, and
informative work. Psychologists, anthropologists, sociologists,
political scientists, activists, public-policy makers, and all
those interested in promoting peace and justice, are sure to find
this an invaluable and illuminating resource.
This edited volume in the Community Psychology Book Series
emphasizes applications of community psychology for disrupting
dominant and hegemonic power relations. The book 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.
Specifically, the book advances conceptions and praxes for
community psychology grounded within a decolonial framework. The
volume heeds 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 foregrounds social justice; the lives
and knowledges 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.
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