Overview
- Disrupts current hegemonic discourse on feminism in community psychology to re-situate it in the context of the global South
- Foregrounds intersectional African, black, postcolonial, and indigenous feminist community psychology perspectives in theory and practice
- Offers concrete examples for modes of engagement, research, dialogue, and reflexive practice for practitioners
- Sets a future-forward agenda for theory, research and practice in the field of community in postcolonial context across the globe
Part of the book series: Community Psychology (COMPSY)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Critique of hegemonic community psychology
- Centering feminist perspectives
- De-politicization of African feminist psychology
- Community social psychologies for decolonization
- Using indigenous knowledge in African context
- Knowledge production & methodology in community psychology
- Narrative approaches as decolonial feminist method
- Using photovoice to challenge oppression
- Dialogue and reflexive practice
- Transnational feminist perspectives to health rights
- Filmmaking as emancipatory research method
- Sexuality and decoloniality
- Decolonial feminist praxis
- Intersectionality in student experiences on university campuses
- Community value and social justice
- Life history research on men and masculinities
- Re(producing) racism in interview contexts
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Floretta Boonzaier is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town. Her research interests include feminist, critical, and postcolonial psychologies, subjectivity in relation to race, gender, and sexuality, and narrative, discursive, and participatory methods in qualitative psychology.
Taryn van Niekerk is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town. Her primary areas of interest include feminist post-structuralist theories of gender and intersectionality, social psychological and post-colonial theories of identity and subjectivity, men’s accounts of their own violence, and the social construction of violence against women in the South African media. Her postdoctoral research forms part of a larger participatory action project on the gendered and sexual lives of South African youth and explores how young people represent gender violence and relationships, through the method of Photovoice.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Decolonial Feminist Community Psychology
Editors: Floretta Boonzaier, Taryn van Niekerk
Series Title: Community Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20001-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20000-8Published: 24 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20003-9Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-20001-5Published: 13 July 2019
Series ISSN: 2523-7241
Series E-ISSN: 2523-725X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 160
Number of Illustrations: 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Community and Environmental Psychology, Psychological Methods/Evaluation, Development and Post-Colonialism, Feminism