1st Edition

Critical Psychology Praxis Psychosocial Non-Alignment to Modernity/Coloniality

Edited By Robert Beshara Copyright 2021
178 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

178 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

178 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This collection of chapters advances critical psychology by incorporating praxis (theory and practice) and decolonial streams of thought. They are united around a theme of psychosocial non-alignment to modernity/coloniality. Bringing together a transdisciplinary range of authors from around the world, this edited volume weaves together a spectrum of complex arguments and perspectives to lay... Read more
  1. Ten Concepts for Critical Psychology Praxis (Robert K. Beshara)
  2. Understanding and Challenging Literary Gentrification in New Mexico: A Concept in Parts (Patricia Marina Trujillo)
  3. Subversions of Subjectification (Hans Skott-Myhre and Kathleen S.G. Skott-Myhre)
  4. The End of Knowing as Critical Praxis (Practical-Critical Activity) (Lois Holzman)
  5. Looking (Out) for New Masters: Assessing the Bar between Lacanianism and Critical Psychology (Michael J. Miller)
  6. Psychology as Business and Domination: Challenging the Colonial and the "Import-Export" Model (Serdar M. Değirmencioğlu)
  7. Blessings from the Tewa Sunrisers of the Santa Clara Pueblo (Rachel Begay)
  8. The Creation of the Viable Unheard of as a Revolutionary Activity (Fernanda Liberali, Valdite Pereira Fuga, and José Carlos Barbosa Lopes)
  9. Student Resistance as a Praxis Against Neoliberalism: A Critical Analysis of Chilean Public Education from 1980 to 2020 (Silvana S. Hernández-Ortiz and María-Constanza Garrido Sierralta)
  10. Critical Deconstruction of "East meets West": The Lesson from Hong Kong (Fu Wai)
  11. Decolonizing the Intersection: Black Male Studies as a Critique of Intersectionality’s Indebtedness to Subculture of Violence Theory (Tommy J. Curry)
  12. Between Critical (World) Psychology and Transdisciplinary Praxis (Robert K. Beshara)

Biography

Robert K. Beshara is Assistant Professor of Psychology and Humanities at Northern New Mexico College, USA and Director of the Critical Psychology certificate program at The Global Center for Advanced Studies, Ireland/USA. He is the founder of criticalpsychology.org, a free resource for scholars, activists, and practitioners. He is also the author of Decolonial Psychoanalysis: Towards Critical Islamophobia Studies (Routledge, 2019).