Critical Psychology PRAXIS: Psychosocial Non-Alignment to Modernity/Coloniality Contributor(s): Beshara, Robert (Editor) |
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ISBN: 036763564X ISBN-13: 9780367635640 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2021 |
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BISAC Categories: - Psychology | History - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Social Science | Sociology - General |
Dewey: 150.198 |
LCCN: 2020041542 |
Physical Information: 162 pages |
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Publisher Description: 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 the foundations for bridging the Global North-South divide in critical psychology through solidarity and dialogue. The book's central argument is to emphasize praxis and transdisciplinarity over disciplinary fundamentalism. Psychology is only a starting point and not the end goal of critique in this book; incidentally, some of the authors are not even psychologists. Instead, the book draws on decolonial theoretical resources, such as Chican@ Studies, Black Male Studies, and Critical Pedagogy, to complement traditional theoretical resources like psychoanalysis, Marxism, poststructuralism, and feminism. This groundbreaking text is suitable for scholars and upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students studying critical discourse, the psychology and philosophy of post-coloniality, conceptual and historical issues in psychology, as well as anthropology and sociology courses engaging with action research. |