The Routledge International Handbook of Community Psychology Facing Global Crises with Hope

List of Figures and Tables

Introduction: Facing Global Crises

Carolyn Kagan, Jacqueline Akhurst, Jaime Alfaro, Rebecca Lawthom, Michael Richards and Alba Zambrano

Part 1: Community Psychology Through a Critical Lens

1. Epistemicide and Epistemic Freedom: Reflections for a Decolonising Community Psychology

Nick Malherbe, Shahnaaz Suffla and Mohamed Seedat

2. Contributions of Marxism to Community Psychology: Emancipation in Debate

Isabel Fernandes de Oliveira and Fernando Lacerda Júnior

3. Community Psychology and Political Economy

Sally Zlotowitz and Mark H. Burton

4. Grounding Community Psychology in Practices of Ecopsychosocial Accompaniment

Garret Barnwell, Gay Bradshaw and Mary Watkins

5. Community Psychology and War: Structural Violence and Institutional Silence

Paul Duckett

Part 2: Community Psychology Through a Praxis Lens

6. Interrogating Chilean Community Psychology in Times of Crisis

Alba Zambrano, Sergio Chacón-Armijo, Herling Sanhueza Yáñez and María Antonieta Campos Melo

7. Psychologists Taking Action for LGBT+ Rights and Well-being in the Philippines

Eric Julian Manalastas, Moniq M. Muyargas, Pierce S. Docena and Beatriz A. Torre

8. Psychosocial Accompaniment from a Community Approach to Victims of Internal Forced Displacement in Colombia

Claudia Tovar Guerra, Stella Sacipa Rodríguez and Laura Muñoz Restrepo

9. Community Trust and Community Psychology Interventions

Caterina Arcidiacono, Immacolata Di Napoli, Ciro Esposito and Fortuna Procentese

10. The Others: Discovering and Connecting Community Life

Moisés Carmona Monferrer and Rubén David Fernández Carrasco

11. A Call for a Digital Community Psychology

Jenna Condie and Michael Richards

12. The Interface of Community and Well-Being in Childhood: A Critical Perspective

Jaime Alfaro and M. Isidora Bilbao-Nieva

13. Disaster and Community Psychology: Focusing on the Power of Youth and Children and their Peer Effects in Disaster Prevention and Community Empowerment

Mari Yoshinaga and Takehito Hagiwara

14. Community Arts for Critical Community Psychology Praxis: Towards Decolonisation and Aboriginal Self-determination

Christopher C. Sonn, Amy F. Quayle and Paola Balla

Part 3: Community Psychology Through an Ecological Lens

15. Climate justice: In Pursuit of a Practical Utopia: Transitioning Towards Climate Justice

Carlie D. Trott, Kai Reimer-Watts and Manuel Riemer

16. Participation for a Better Future: Communities of Action for the Environment in Aotearoa New Zealand

Niki Harré, Sally Birdsall, Daniel Hikuroa, Daniel Kelly, Karen Nairn and Te Kerekere Roycroft

17. Exploring the Ecotone of Critical Food Studies in Community Psychology: A Framework for Addressing Well-Being Through Food System Transformation

Mirella L. Stroink, Charles Z. Levkoe and B. Mackenzie Barnett

18. Community Social Psychology and Nature Conservation

Alejandra Olivera-Méndez and Marcelo Calegare

Part 4: Community Psychology Through a Reflective Lens

19. Community Psychology and the Liberation Process of First Nations in Guatemala

Jorge Mario Flores Osorio and Mariola Elizabeth Vicente Xiloj

20. Scholar Activism: Mothering; Disability and Academic Activism

Katherine Runswick-Cole, Andrea Ellwood, Kerry Fox and Sara Ryan

21. Building Partnerships for Community-Based Service Learning in Poverty-stricken and Systemically Disadvantaged Communities

Jacqueline Akhurst and Nqobile Msomi

22. Mobilising Critical Consciousness in Educational Contexts: A Community Psychology Approach

Bruna Zani, Cinzia Albanesi, Elvira Cicognani, Antonella Guarino and Iana Tzankova

23. Working with Life Stories for Transformational Learning: Tracking Our Positionality in an Educational Dialogical Space During COVID-19　

Yvonne Sliep, Nosipho Makhakhe, Sipho Ngcongo and Bernice Calmes

Part 5: Community Psychology Through the Lens of Hope

24. Hope

Biography

Carolyn Kagan is Professor Emerita of Community Social Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She is retired and is now a scholar-activist, involved with projects that connect localism, environmental and social justice, and community resilience.

Jacqui Akhurst is a Professor Emerita of Rhodes University, South Africa. Her community-based research utilizes Action Research or Activity Theory. Her recent focus has been on community-based service learning in higher education.

Jaime Alfaro is Professor and researcher at the Center of Studies of Well-Being and Social Coexistence, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile. He has a PhD in social science, University of Girona, Spain.

Rebecca Lawthom is Professor of Community Psychology and Head of the School of Education at the University of Sheffield, UK. She works with others in participatory and collaborative ways to achieve valued change. Her research interests cohere around marginalisation and she writes within the fields of disability, ageing and methods.

Michael Richards is a critical community psychologist who is deputy programme leader of a child and adolescent mental health programme and deputy director of the Arts and Wellbeing Research Centre at Edge Hill University, UK.

Alba Zambrano is an academic of the Department of Psychology Universidad de La Frontera, Chile, in the field of Community Psychology. Research interests include community strengthening processes, prevention of psychosocial problems based on evidence and socio-community inclusion. She is director of the Life Skills Program UFRO JUNAEB agreement.

"As someone who lives in one of the very few political colonies left in the world, Puerto Rico, I believe this to be an indispensable volume for all concerned with the ravages of coloniality, social injustice and climate change. It also provides challenges to ongoing crises and the possibilities of a praxis for change which undergirds hope."

Irma Serrano García, University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico