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Author : Nick Malherbe
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 49,51 MB
Release : 2022-04-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 3030996964

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Anti-capitalist political struggle is a site of struggling psychologies. Conscious political action is never far from unconscious desire, and the fight for material justice is always also the fight for dignity and psychological well-being. Yet, how might community psychologists conceive of their discipline in a way that opposes the very capitalist political economy that, historically, most of the psy-disciplines have bolstered in return for disciplinary legitimacy? In its consideration of an anti-capitalist psychology of community, this book does not ignore or try to resolve the contradictory position of such a psychology. Instead, it draws on these contradictions to enliven psychology to the shifting demands - both creative and destructive - of a community-centred anti-capitalism. Using practical examples, the book deals with the psychological components of building community-centred social movements that challenge neoliberal capitalism as a political system, an ideology, and a mode of governing rationality. The book also offers several theoretical contributions that grapple with how an anti-capitalist psychology of community can remain attentive to the psychological elements of anti-capitalist struggle; what the psychological can tell us about anti-capitalist politics; and how these politics can shape the psychological.

Author : Ron Roberts
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 11,50 MB
Release : 2015-02-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1782796533

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Psychology and Capitalism is a critical and accessible account of the ideological and material role of psychology in supporting capitalist enterprise and holding individuals entirely responsible for their fate through the promotion of individualism.

Author : Carl Walker
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 42,78 MB
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 3030711900

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This handbook highlights a range of ground breaking, radical and liberatory clinical and critical community psychology projects from around the world. The disciplines of critical community psychology and clinical psychology are currently experiencing radical innovations that in this book are characterised as moving from the individualising practice realm toward an altogether more contextualising orientation. Both fields are responding to an array of political, social and economic injustices and a global political context. Community and clinical psychologists have found themselves reorienting their practice to confront, resist and subvert the structures that are so damaging to the lives of the vulnerable people they work with. This text posits that these approaches refute and resist the psychologising that has strengthened oppressive structures. Such practices are starting to engage in the political character of power-knowledge relationships that demand a more ‘action-oriented’ and less ‘clinical’ psychology praxis and there is a growing interest in, and commitment to, social justice in the field of mental wellbeing. Using examples of scholar, activist and practitioner work from around the world, this collection explores and documents those practices where the traditional remits of community and clinical psychology have been subverted, altered, stretched, changed and reworked in order to reframe practice around human rights, creativity, political activism, social change, space and place, systemic violence, community transformation, resource allocation and radical practices of disruption and direct action.

Author : Lillian Comas-Díaz
Publisher : Cultural, Racial, and Ethnic P
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,90 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781433832086

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Liberation Psychology: Theory, Method, Practice, and Social Justice guides readers through the history, theory, methods, and clinical practice of liberation psychology and its relation to social justice activism and movements.

Author : Erik Olin Wright
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 18,76 MB
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1788739558

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What is wrong with capitalism, and how can we change it? Capitalism has transformed the world and increased our productivity, but at the cost of enormous human suffering. Our shared values—equality and fairness, democracy and freedom, community and solidarity—can provide both the basis for a critique of capitalism and help to guide us toward a socialist and democratic society. Erik Olin Wright has distilled decades of work into this concise and tightly argued manifesto: analyzing the varieties of anticapitalism, assessing different strategic approaches, and laying the foundations for a society dedicated to human flourishing. How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century is an urgent and powerful argument for socialism, and an unparalleled guide to help us get there. Another world is possible. Included is an afterword by the author’s close friend and collaborator Michael Burawoy.

Author : Oliver James
Publisher : Random House
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,2 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 0091924162

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In the bestselling 'Affluenza', world-renowned psychologist Oliver James introduced us to a modern-day virus sweeping the English-speaking world. Now 'The Selfish Capitalist' provides more detailed substantiation for the claims he has already made.

Author : Carl Ratner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 21,47 MB
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1461458250

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Globalization pressures have made cooperation on a global scale both necessary and possible. But cooperation is not easy in a world dominated by individual, cultural, and national selfish interests. The opposition to cooperation means that cooperation is not natural, but must be instituted through an intellectual and social struggle against countervailing forces. This book discusses issues that are necessary to describe the nature of cooperation and how it can be promoted as a social and ethical ideal amidst a sea of competing interests. Dr. Ratner uses the framework of cooperativism, that is the system of social institutions, social philosophy, cultural psychology and politics that promotes cooperation, as a starting point. Elements of cooperativism are derived from a rigorous analysis of various sources, including the needs of tendencies of human culture and human psychology.

Author : Carolyn Kagan
Publisher : Wiley Global Education
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 37,36 MB
Release : 2014-09-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1118555244

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Interest in community psychology, and its potential has grown in parallel with changes in welfare and governmental priorities. Critical Community Psychology provide students of different community based professions, working in a range of applied settings, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, with a text which will underpin their community psychological work. Key Features: Clear learning objectives and chapter contents outlined at the start of each chapter Key terms highlighted with definitions, either as marginal notes or in chapter glossaries Case examples of community psychology in action Each chapter ends with a critical assessment section Discussion points and ideas for exercises that can be undertaken by the reader, in order to extend critical understanding Lists of further resources -- e.g. reading, film, electronic Authors are members of the largest community psychology departmental team in Europe

Author : Carolyn Kagan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 14,6 MB
Release : 2011-05-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1405188847

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Interest in community psychology, and its potential has grown in parallel with changes in welfare and governmental priorities. Critical Community Psychology provides students of different community based professions, working in a range of applied settings, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, with a text which will underpin their community psychological work. Key Features: · Clear learning objectives and chapter contents outlined at the start of each chapter. · Key terms highlighted with definitions, either as marginal notes or in chapter glossaries. · Case examples of community psychology in action. · Each chapter ends with a critical assessment section . · Discussion points and ideas for exercises that can be undertaken by the reader, in order to extend critical understanding. · Lists of further resources - e.g. reading, film, electronic. · Authors are members of the largest community psychology departmental team in Europe.

Author : Manuel Riemer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 35,50 MB
Release : 2020-03-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1137464100

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This visionary textbook is the third edition of a trusted and highly respected introduction to community psychology. The editors have focused on three contemporary social issues in order to illustrate key concepts throughout the book: climate change, affordable housing and homelessness, and immigration. Featuring a wide range of critical perspectives from international scholars and practitioners, Community Psychology encourages students to consider theories and methodologies in light of how they might be applied to different cultures and settings. It develops students' ability to think critically about the role of psychology in society, and about how the work of community psychologists can aid in the liberation of oppressed groups, promoting social justice and flourishing both for people and for our planet. This book is essential reading for students taking both undergraduate and graduate courses in community psychology and its related fields. New to this Edition: - New chapters on power and racism - Coverage of the latest research in the field, with numerous new concepts, theories, and references - An approach which takes three critical issues as illustrative examples throughout the book: immigration, affordable housing and homelessness, and climate change. Accompanying online resources for this title can be found at bloomsburyonlineresources.com/community-psychology-3e. These resources are designed to support teaching and learning when using this textbook and are available at no extra cost.