Handbook of Decolonial Community Psychology

Series Foreword
The Community Psychology Book Series: A Dialogical Decolonizing Space
Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Decolonisation in and Beyond Community Psychologies: A Transnational Plurilogue
	Why Community?
	Roots and Routes Toward a Decolonial Community Psychology
	Introducing the Handbook of Decolonial Community Psychology
		Thematic Organisation of the Handbook
		Section One Stories of Decolonising Community Psychology: Re-Rooting and Re-Routing Knowledge and Practice
		Section Two Processes of Embodied Community Psychology: Confronting Coloniality and Strengthening Knowledges and Technologies for Re-Existence
	Conclusion
	References
Part I: Stories of Decolonising Community Psychology: Re-Rooting and Re-Routing Knowledge and Practice
	Revisiting Maritza Montero’s Work from a Decolonial Perspective
		Introduction
		Decolonial Perspective in Latin America
		Maritza Montero: Academic Trajectory as a Form of Resistance in Latin America
		Maritza Montero’s Contributions and Influences in Decolonial Thought
			Criticism and Liberation in the Critical Aspects of Psychology in Latin America: Contributions to Its Conceptualization
			Epistemological and Ontological Contributions for a Decolonial Community Psychology
				A Psychology from Latin America Situated in Its Own Unique Problems
				The Relational Conception of Existence and the Place of the “Subject”. Contribution to the Decolonial in the Consideration of the Other
			Processes and Methods for Social Transformation
			Notions of Community Psychology for Decolonial Thinking
				From Empowerment to Community Strengthening
				Active and Inclusive Participation and Role of the Community
				Power and Social Influence as a Form of Resistance
		Rereading Maritza Montero’s Ideas: Scope and Limits for Decolonizing Community Psychology
			Absences in Maritza Montero’s Production: Sex-Gender, Ethnic-Racial, Rural and Non-human Nature: The Contributions of Intersectionality to a Decolonial Community Psychology
			Relational Boundaries. From Duality of Agents to Multiplicity of Positions
			The Political Dimension in Maritza Montero’s Proposal. The Need for an Understanding of the Diverse Cosmovisions from a Decolonial Perspective
		By Way of Conclusion
		References
	The Psychological: A Critique from Decolonial Community Psychology
		The Psychological: A Critique from Decolonial Community Psychology
			The Mind
				Reason, a Way of Thinking
				Knowledge and Reality
				The Super-Ego, a Structure for Monitoring Good Behavior
				The Fallacy of Intelligence and Race
			Alternative Thinking in Mesoamerican Indigenous Peoples
				Intersubjectivity
		The Rejection of Planning in the Vagabonds, a Trait of Alternative Thinking
		From Diversity to Coexistence, the Multi-Reality
		Conclusion
		References
	Emotion and Affect in Social and Political Life: Community Psychology’s Contributions and Erasures
		How We Talk About Communities Matters: Minding Our Language
		The Psycho-Social Entanglements of Rage, Melancholy, Anxiety and Despair: Afterlives of Oppression in Marginalized Communities
		Community Fragmentation
			The Spatial Figuration of Affective Relationships
		(Re)generating Community Feeling: Working with Hope and Love
		Affective Community-Building
		The Emotional Labor of Care
		References
	Reproducing Coloniality: Language, Gender, and Neoliberal Discourses of Selfhood
		Introduction
		Outsourcing as a Psychological Site and Practice of the Gendered Neoliberal Self
			Role Play and Learning American Cultural Codes
			Mother Tongue as Deficient Speech
		Two Tales of the New Woman in Bollywood’s Neoliberal Imaginary
		Conclusion: Coloniality of Language, Neoliberal Subjecthood and Community Psychology
		References
	Teaching Community Psychology from an Entanglement Framework
		Roots: An Entanglement Framework
		The Soil: Our Context
			Campus Context
			Class Context
			COVID-19 Context
		Routes: Revamping a Large Community Psychology Course
			Parasympathetic Nervous System Exercise: Getting Ready for Embodied Learning
			Lectures: Promoting Socio-Historical Intersectional Consciousness
			Photovoice: Promoting Epistemic Justice and Emergence
		Conclusion
		References
	Decolonizing Community-Based Research and Practice in the Indonesian Context: Refuting Superiority, Foregrounding Solidarity
		Introduction
			Decoloniality as Resistance Against an Imposed Hierarchy of Superiority and Inferiority
			Indonesian Universities and Their (Ongoing) Colonial History
		Our Praxis
			It Is Not About Helping, But About Paseduluran
			Meaningful Researcher-Research Participant Relationship Through Jagongan
			Working with Community Rather than on Community
		Closing Reflection
		References
	Sacred Cenote Spaces Nurturing Heart-Centered Collective Transformation
		An Offering
		From the Depths to the Surface: Grounding Reflections on the Cultural Moment
		Articulating Geographies and Genealogies
		Cenotes: Sacred Wells and Space-Making
		What Are Cenotes?
		Sacred Cenote Space-Making
		Cenote Space 1: The Village
		Cenote Space 2: Vunja!
		Cenote Space 3: The X/Chicana/o/x Instituto
		Sacred Cenote Spaces & Collective Transformation
		Concluding Comments
		References
	Community Psychology and Life on the Streets: Problematizations of the Concept of Community
		The Concept of Community for Community Psychology
		Discussion About Living on the Streets
		Community from Life on the Streets
		Challenges and Potentialities of Community Psychology in the Context of Homeless People
		Concluding Remarks
		References
	Decolonial Attitude and Community Psychology in Social Policy
		Introduction
		Context
		Methodology
		Findings
			Social, Cultural and Structural Context of Praxical Violence
			Institutional Framework Exercising Praxical Violence
				Towards Intervention Agents
				Towards Participants
			Intervention Agents Exercising Praxical Violence
				Towards Participants
			Participants Exercising Praxical Violence
				Towards Intervention Agents
				Towards Themselves and Other Participants
		Discussion
		References
	Reflections on Decoloniality, Liberation and Community Psychology
		The Implications of a Decolonial and Liberating Perspective for Community Psychology
		Decolonizing Social Inscriptions of Harm: The Importance of Dimensioning the Question of Power and the Scenarios of Collective Affectation in Community Psychology
		Conclusions
		References
	Towards a Decolonizing Psychology: Reflexivity with Mothers and Adolescents from the Maya Region of Yucatán
		Introduction
		Theoretical, Ontological, and Epistemological Positioning
		Maya Identity and Language Preservation
		Study Setting
		Maaya tuukul: tuukulo’ob tio’olal wíinik
			Maya Thought: Conceptions About the Person
		Ba’ax ku p’atik le mayanidado’ ti’ le táankelem páalaloobo’
			The Effects of Maya Identity on Childhood and Adolescence as a Construct
		Ba’ax ku p’atik te kaajo’ le túumben ba’alob ku chíikpajal tée k’íinoba’
			The Effects of Modernity on the Community
		Final Considerations
		References
	Aula en la Montaña: Deconstructing Coloniality in Childhood Through Community Action
		Colonization, Colonialism, Coloniality and Decoloniality
		Decoloniality
		Sociohistorical Context of the Puerto Rican Colonial Archipelago
		Coloniality and Childhood
		Aula en la Montaña
			The Program
			Outcomes
		Obstacles and Barriers
		Analysis of Aula en la Montaña as a Decolonial Project
		Conclusion
		References
	Challenging Borders and Border Violence: A Decolonial Community Psychology Perspective
		Our “Lugar de Fala”
		Coloniality, Borders, and Establishment Psychology’s Role in Perpetuating Border Violence
		Community Psychologies, Coloniality/Decoloniality, and the Problem of Borders
		Experiences of Psychosocial Accompaniment and Solidarities Against Borders
		Countering Border Violence Through Sustained Creative Freedom: The Unchained Collective
		Resituating Knowledge, Resignifying Care and Becoming an Ally of People on the Move
		Concluding Notes: As We Walk Towards a Borderless World
		References
	Everyday Solidarities and Epistemic Justice: Nourishing Ecologies of Wellbeing
		Assembling Resources for Epistemic Justice: Theorising with Communities / Theorising as Praxis
		Solidarity Praxis with Next In Colour: Centering Dialogue and Relationality
		Future Reset: Creating Multiple Knowledges, Amplifying Voices
		Decolonial Praxis: Epistemic (In)justice and Critical Psychosocial Accompaniment
		Conclusion
		References
Part II: Processes of Embodied Community Psychology: Confronting Coloniality and Strengthening Knowledges and Technologies for Re-Existence
	Refusing Necropolitics in St. John and in Palestine: Unearthing Stories of Land Dispossession, Desire and the Will to Live
		Excavation: Unmasking, Refusal and Return
		The Project of Excavation: Refusal, Struggle and Return
		Kitchen Table Ecology: Reclaiming Hard Labor on St. John
			St. John, Hard Labor, and Me
			Killing Blackness, Creating Paradise
			An Invitation of Refusal and Return
		On Palestinian Alienation and Return
			A Post-hoc Preface
			Dissected Geography, Dissected Identity
			The Marches of Return
			Our Theoretical/Political/Ethical Interventions
		References
	Reimaging a Decolonial and Post-Sectarian Lebanon: A Reflection on the October 17 Uprising
		Modern/Colonial and Sectarian Historical Context
		Modernity/Coloniality: The Role of the International Aid and Development Model (IAD) and Geopolitics in the Neoliberalization of Lebanon
		The Rise of Alternative Discourses and Options
		Final Reflections: Reimaging a Decolonial and Post-Sectarian Lebanon
		References
	Colonial Constructions of Friendship and Land Dispossession: Implications for Contemporary Land and Environmental Defending
		Introduction
		The Annexation of Mpondoland, 1894
		Methodology
		Findings
			For the Good of the Mpondo
			Honest Advice
			Personal and Political Friendship
		Discussion
		Concluding Remarks
		References
	“A March Is Beginning, a March for Freedom”: Miya Poetry as Decolonial Praxis Toward Justice and Liberation
		Introduction
		Onto-epistemic, Political, and Ethical Groundings
		Foregrounding Resistance: Citizenship as Struggle for Being and Belonging
		Miya Poetry as Decolonial Praxis Toward Justice and Liberation
		Miya Poetry as Speaking Up From/Against the Realm of Sub-Human Invisibility
		Miya Poetry as Unmasking the Violence of Citizenship Regimes
		Miya Poetry as A Call for Liberation
		Concluding Reflections: Complicating Our Understandings of Decolonial Resistance
		References
	Scars of Resistance: Battling Through the Pain, Bearing the Bruises
		Story One: Navigating the Tufan\\Storm
		Following Maldonado-Torres to Palestine
		Story Two: Settling into a Settlers’ Town
		Walk Out and Take a Stand: Statement Denouncing the Upholding of Colonial Violence by Psychologists for Social Responsibility
		Story Three: “You are fucking up girl”
		References
	From Collective Reflexivity to Personal Responsibility: Making Sense of Community Critiques About ‘Kurdish Power’ Research
		Introduction
		Kurdish Contextualization for CRT and Anticolonial Thought
			Situating Anticolonial, Critical Race and Liberation Psychology Approaches in the Kurdish Struggle
		Previous Analyses: Understandings of Kurdish Power
		Participatory Research ‘From Below’: Community Critiques of ‘Kurdish Power’
			Hopes, Worries, Found and Unfound
				General Observations
				Hoped and Found: Cultural Embeddedness of Sociopolitical Care and Radical Love
				Hoped but Unfound: Where Did We Leave Anticapitalism and Anticolonialism?
				Worried, Unfortunately Found: ‘Timid’ Reformulations of Kurdish Resistance at the Dawn of Turkey’s New Century
		Conclusion
		References
	Anthropocentric Limits of Community: Relation as a Black and Indigenous Ethic
		Introduction
		The Black and Indigenous Deathworlds
		Refiguring the Natural World
		Anthropocentric Limits of Community
		Relation—Black and Indigenous Coming into View
		Relation in the Cross Currents of Black Studies and Indigenous Studies
		Conclusion
		References
	Illegible Fugitivity and Subversive Resistances: African Diaspora Roots of Decoloniality
		Relationality in Time and Space
		Fugitive Illegibility
		Academic Illegibility: Politics of Reflexivity and Misrecognition
		Recognizing Rechanneling: Regeneration Above and Below the Kalunga Line
		References
	Contributions of Afro-Pindoramic Thought to the Decolonial Turn in Community Psychology
		Introduction
		Decoloniality: Indigenous and Quilombola Struggle Against Colonial Erasure
		Dona Liça Pataxoop, Quilombola Women and Us: The Weaving of a Decolonial Community Psychology?
			Dona Liça Pataxoop’s Tehêy de Pescaria do Conhecimento: Initial Dialogues with Community Psychology
			The Writings of Quilombola Women from COQUIVALE
		Final Considerations: What Do Afro-Pindoramic Women Point to for the Decolonial Turn in Community Psychology?
		References
	Decolonial Community Psychology from Abya Yala
		Autonomous Organization and Decoloniality as a Response to a Socionatural Disaster in Puerto Rico
		Acts of Healing in Comuneras Women of Perú
		“The Tree of Coexistence”: Cultural Expression and Appropriation of Public Spaces
		Collective Reflections
		References
	Weaving Pathways Towards Decoloniality Through Indigenous Community-Based Research and Cosmopraxes
		Indigenous Community-Based Research
		Affective Conviviality, Epistemic Resistance, Epistemic Justice, and Decolonial Solidarity
			Affective Conviviality
			Epistemic Resistance
			Epistemic Justice
			Decolonial Solidarity
			Toward Decolonial Praxes Weaving Pathways Through ICBR
				Tejiendo Rebozos de Muchos Saberes y Haceres: Sentipensar con la Tierra, Convivencia Afectiva, Solidaridad Decolonial y Comunalidad. Weaving Shawls of Many Knowledges and Praxes: Feelingthinking with the Earth, Affective Conviviality, Decolon
				Shela Nazede Che Shexhe Zuan Xhin Shixe/ El Saber del Pueblo Está en el Cultivo del Campo: Propuesta de una Educación Comunitaria. The Village Knowledge is in the Crops of the Fields: Proposal for a Community Education
				Jo’otik Ta Lum Ki’nal (Maya Tzeltal)—To’on Yejer Ru’um (Maya Lacandón) Nosotros y la Tierra (Spanish). We and the Earth
				La Cultura Mazateca: Rostros del Agua en la Sierra Mazateca, Huautla de Jiménez y Loma Chapultepec, Oaxaca. The Mazatec Culture: Water Faces in the Mazatec Highlands, Huautla de Jiménez and Loma Chapultepec, Oaxaca
				Universidad de la Tierra (Unitierra). University of the Earth, Oaxaca (Unitierra)
		Retos/Challenges
		Conclusion: Our Weaved Pathways toward Decoloniality / Nuestros Caminos Tejidos Hacia La Decolonialidad
		References
	Decolonial Practices from a Community Psychology
		Introduction
		Our Work Context
		Decoloniality from our Experience and Introspection
		Is It Possible to Train Students from a Decolonial Perspective without Colonizing?
		A Look at Psychology Research from the Edges of School and Community
		Conclusions: Proposals for a Community Psychology
		References
	Contributions and Contradictions in Decolonizing Community Psychology: Accompanying Mayan and Andean Women Through Feminist PAR
		Contextualizing Continuities and Discontinuities of Violence: Guatemala and Perú
		Thirty-Six Years of Armed Conflict in Guatemala
		Perú’s Internal Armed Conflict
		Transitional Justice
		Continuities of Violence and Resistance
			Situating Ourselves Through FPAR
			Towards Decolonization Through FPAR: Opportunities and Contradictions
		Challenges and Possibilities of Women-Only Spaces
			Material Marginalization as a Hilo Conductor [Integrating Thread]
		Learning Within and Across Racialized Impoverished Conditions
			Embracing Webs of Interconnections
			Conclusions
		References
	The Indigenous Foundations of Decolonial Community Psychology
		Latin American Community Psychology
		Community Psychology’s Relationship with Decoloniality
		The Indigenous Foundations of Decolonial Community Psychology
		Final Considerations
		References
Index