Self, Community and PsychologyNorman Duncan A reader for students at the University of South Africa studying community psychology. It addresses ideologies of race, gender and sexuality that together create particular South African post-colonial realities which legitimise oppression and cultural dispossession. |
Contents
Liberation psychology | 1-1 |
Critical reflections on community and psychology | 2-1 |
Social psychology and research methods | 3-1 |
An African perspective | 4-1 |
Frantz Fanon and racial identity in postcolonial contexts | 6-1 |
Feminist critical psychology in South Africa | 7-1 |
Heterosexuality | 8-1 |
Activity Theory as a framework for psychological | 9-1 |
Participatory Action Research and local knowledge | 10-1 |
Street life and the construction of social problems 111 | 11-3 |
The role of collective action in the prevention | 12-1 |
Understanding and preventing violence 131 | 13-1 |
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action Activity Theory agenda apartheid approach argued Bakhtin behaviour Bulhan challenge chapter colonial community psychology concept condoms consciousness constructed context critical community critical psychology cultural defined dependency theory dialogical discourse analysis discuss dominant economic emphasise empowerment engage example experience factors Fanon feminism feminist focus forms framework gender heterosexual historical HIV/Aids human ideas ideological important indigenous individual influence internalisation interventions involves knowledge language liberation psychology living male marginalised means needs notion oppression organisations participation participatory peer education person personhood perspective political position post-colonial practice problems programme race racial racism refers relations relationships role Seedat sense sex workers sexual health Shefer social capital social change social constructionism social identity social psychology society South Africa stakeholders strategies street children structures theoretical thinking tion traditional African transformation Ubuntu understanding utterance values violence voices Vygotsky Western women worldviews