Description
| Product ID: | 9780230537699 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Critical Theory and Practice in Psychology and the Human Sciences |
| Title: | Toward Psychologies of Liberation |
| Authors: | Author: H. Shulman, M. Watkins |
| Page Count: | 380 |
| Subjects: | Social groups, communities and identities, Social groups, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Sociology, Social welfare and social services, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Indigenous people: governance and politics, Human rights, civil rights, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Sociology, Social welfare & social services, The self, ego, identity, personality, Regional government, Human rights |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The creation of public homeplaces, and the work of liberation arts, critical participatory action research, public dialogue, and reconciliation are highlighted as embodying the values and hopes of liberation psychology. Psychologies of liberation are emerging on every continent in response to the collective traumas inflicted by colonialism and globalization. The authors present the theoretical foundation and participatory methodologies that unite these radical interdisciplinary approaches to creating individual and community well-being. They move from a description of the psychological and community wounds that are common to unjust and violent contexts to engaging examples of innovative community projects from around the world that seek to heal these wounds. The creation of public homeplaces, and the work of liberation arts, critical participatory action research, public dialogue, and reconciliation are highlighted as embodying the values and hopes of liberation psychology. Drawing on psychoanalysis, trauma studies, liberation arts, participatory research, and contemporary cultural work, this book nourishes our understanding of and imagination about the kinds of healing that are necessary to the creation of more just and peaceful communities. In dialogue with cultural workers, writers, and visionaries from Latin America, Africa, Asia, Europe, the United States, and the Pacific Islands, Toward Psychologies of Liberation quickens a dialogical convergence of liberatory psychological theories and practices that will seed individual and community transformation. |
| Imprint Name: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Publisher Name: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2008-07-15 |
