Decolonial Enactments in Community Psychology: Decoloniality in the Global South

Foreword
The Community Psychology Book Series: A Dialogical Decolonising Space
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Contributors
Part I: Conceptions of Engagement for Community Psychology
	Towards A Decolonial Community Psychology: Derivatives, Disruptions and Disobediences
		A Fundamental Quest for Social Justice
		A Critical Focus on the Marginalised and Oppressed
		Epistemic Disobedience and Transdisciplinarity
		Embracing A Decolonial Aesthetic
		A Critical Assembly of Theoretical, Methodological and Praxical Resources
			Conceptions of Engagement for Community Psychology
			Modes of Enactment and Praxes for Community Psychology
		References
	Liberatory Africa(n)-Centred Community Psychology of Psychosocial Change
		Introduction
		A Note on A Method of Thinking and Writing Together
		How to Situate Africa Within Community Psychology to Re-write the Discipline?
		In What Ways Might Neville Alexander Be Useful in Unearthing Socially Just Africa(n)-Centred Critical Community Psychologies?
		How Can Africa(n)-Centring Psychologists Within Communities Locate the Psychological Within Social Change?
		Concluding Thoughts
		References
	Decolonising Participatory Action Research in Community Psychology
		Introduction
		Decolonial Thinking and the Decolonial Turn
		The Roots of PAR
			The Western Approach
			Perspectives from the Global South
		Decolonising Participation, Action and Research in PAR
			Participation Not Tokenism
			Action-Oriented Transformation
			Research Justice for Decoloniality
		Ten Axioms for a Decolonial PAR Praxis
			Participatory Relational Engagement
			Socio-historical Inquiry
			Interrupting Power
			Critical Reflexivity
			Sovereignty
			Tensegrity as Balance
			Co-constructing Knowledge
			Community Determined Applied Action
			Emancipatory Transformational Praxes
			Decolonial Love
		Conclusion
		References
	Decentering “Community” in Community Psychology: Towards Radical Relationality and Resistance
		The Metanarrative of “Community” in Community Psychology
			Community as Other: The Academy: Community Binary
			Sense of Community: Troubling Colonial Legacies in Theory and Applications
		Decolonial Possibilities for Community Psychology: Towards Resistance, Desire and Radical Relationality
			An Orientation Towards Desire
			Epistemic (Re)positionings, Centering Relational Ethics: Reconfiguring the Role of Community Psychologists
			Toward a Decolonial Education and Curriculum: Reading Against the “Canons”
		Concluding Remarks
		References
Part II: Modes of Enactments and Praxes for Community Psychology
	Reflections on Radical Love and Rebellion: Towards Decolonial Solidarity in Community Psychology Praxis
		Introduction
		Emphasising Decolonial Praxis: De-centering Psychology Definitions and Standards when Seeking to Create Revolutionary Relationships and Understandings
		Being ‘Engulfed by Love’ as We Remember and Resist: Decolonial Solidarity as Crafting of Revolutionary Relationships in the Face of Perpetual Pain, Separation, and Devastation
		Where Do We Stand? and With Whom? Decolonial Solidarity as Standing In-Between, and with Love, Against Colonial Ideologies and Multiple Degrees of Incarceration
		Decolonial Solidarity as ‘Communal Flourishing’: Restorative Enactments of Interdependence, Abundance, and Transformation
		Ending Reflections and Questions
		References
	Accompanying Aboriginal Communities Through Arts and Cultural Practice: Decolonial Enactments of Place-Based Community Research
		Critical Community Psychology and Community Arts and Cultural Development: Theoretical, Conceptual and Methodological Resources
			Decolonial and Liberation Psychology
			Culture, Narrative and Stories
			Community Arts and Cultural Development for Counter Storytelling and Healing
		Enacting a Decolonial Agenda: Building Relationships, Making Art, and Reigniting Community
			Context: Aboriginal Communities of the Wheatbelt
			Laying Foundations Through Consultation and Community Workshops
		Voices of the Wheatbelt: Making Place Through Photography
		Responding to Social Suffering: Naming Pain and Imagining Hope
		Remembering and Counter Storytelling: Memory, Portraits and Legacy
			Using Storytelling to Record and Create a Community Archive
		Summary and Conclusion
		References
	Dialogue and Dialogue Theatre: Processes Toward Decolonial Praxis
		Introduction
		Origins of Dialogue Theatre
		South Sudan Voice
		Dialogue as Conflict Transformation Process
		Using Dialogue as Data Collection
		Reflecting on South Sudanese Voice as Decolonial Enactment: A Dialogue
		Discussion
		Conclusion
		References
	Constructing Race and Place in South Africa: A Photovoice Study with ‘Coloured’ Men in Bishop Lavis
		Place Identity, and Lived Experience
		Bishop Lavis: Brief Overview
		Why Young ‘Coloured’ Masculinities?
		Engaging Youth Using Photovoice
		Constructing Race and Place in Bishop Lavis
			Constructions of Community and the “Lekker” Bishop Lavis
			The Construction of the “Unsafe” Bishop Lavis
			Bishop Lavis: A Classed, Raced and Gendered Community
		Concluding Thoughts
		References
	Towards Alternative Spatial Imaginaries: The Case of ‘Reclaim the City’
		Interpretive Framework: Situating Space in Decolonial Community Psychology
			Participatory Action Research
			Conceptualising Spatial Imaginaries and Place Identity
			The Colonial Spatial Imaginary
		The Colonial Spatial Imaginary in Cape Town’s History
			The Colonial Era: The Cape Colony
			The Apartheid Era: Spatial Apartheid in Cape Town
			Post-Apartheid Cape Town
		A Participatory Action Research Project
		Findings: Challenging the Colonial Spatial Imaginary
			The Work of Reclaim the City: Building Alternative Spatial Imaginaries
		Conclusion: Building Alternative Spatial Imaginaries
		References
	A Decolonising Approach to Health Promotion
		Introduction
		Biomedicine: A Gift that Keeps on Giving
		Social Determinants of Health, Discourse and Disciplinary Decadence
		Internalized Discourses as Barrier
		Shifting the Discourse: Building a Decolonial Epistemology on Health
		Decoloniality as Praxis for Health
		Conclusion
		References
	Decolonising Australian Psychology: The Influences of Aboriginal Psychologists
		Introduction
			Context of Invasion and Colonisation in Australia
			Decolonisation
			Ongoing Processes of Colonising and Decolonising in Psychology
		A Collective Momentum of Aboriginal Psychologists
			The Growth in Numbers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Psychologists
			Aboriginal Psychologists and Significant Gatherings
			The Australian Indigenous Psychologists Association
		Examples from Two Aboriginal Psychologists
			Example 1: Yvonne Clark
			Example 2: Tanja Hirvonen
			Shared Commitments
		Summary and Conclusion
		References
	Towards an Expansive Conceptual/Methodological Approach to Everyday Violence
		Introduction
		Immediate Context
		2015: Visible Disruption of Denial in South Africa
			The Disrupting Denial Approach
			Structure of Invisible/Visible Violence Conceptual Framework
			Cultural Violence
			Structural Violence
			Psychological Violence
			Physical Violence
			Denial
		Boundary-Crossing Scholarship as a Bridge to Transdisciplinarity
			Psychology
			Economics
			Criminology
			Political Science
		Drawing Together Key Lessons Learnt from Below
		References
	The Past, Present, and Future Entangled: Memory-Work as Decolonial Praxis
		The Past as Decolonial Battleground
		Memory-Imagination Interplay
		Researching Memory-Work: Convergences Between Critical Ethnography and Critical Community Psychology
			Living Attentionally with Others
			Reflexivity
			In the Zone of Nonbeing
		The Birth of a Liberation Struggle
		Re-Existence: The MILF’s Will to Remember
			Transmitting and Framing the Past
			Unevenness of Memory-Work
		Decolonial Futures
		References
Index