Decoloniality and Epistemic Justice in Contemporary Community Psychology

Garth Stevens is a Professor and Clinical Psychologist at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. His research interests include foci on race, racism and related social asymmetries; critical violence studies; and historical/collective trauma and memory. He has published widely in these areas, both nationally and internationally, including co-editorships of A ‘race’ against time: Psychology and challenges to deracialisation in South Africa (UNISA Press, 2006) and Race, memory and the apartheid archive: Towards a transformative psychosocial praxis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). He is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), presently serves as the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of the Witwatersrand, and is the current President of the Psychological Society of South Africa (PsySSA). Christopher C. Sonn, PhD, is Professor at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. He is a fellow of the Institute of Health and Sport and teaches into the Applied Psychology Program in the College of Health and Biomedicine. His research is concerned with understanding and changing dynamics of oppression and resistance, examining structural violence such as racism, and its effects on social identities, intergroup relations and belonging. He holds a Visiting Professorship at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He is co-editor of Creating Inclusive Knowledges and co-author of Social Psychology and Everyday Life, and Associate Editor of the American Journal of Community Psychology and Community Psychology in Global Perspective.

• Foreword.- Recovering and re-centring decolonial thought in community psychology.- Defining the key co-ordinates of a decolonial praxis.- Community conscientisation, political activism and social change in Brazil.- Decoloniality and participatory action research in Puerto Rico.- Community psychology, depth psychology and decoloniality.- Liberation psychology and psychosocial accompaniment.- Widening our methodological imaginations for social change and justice.- Maintaining the criticality of the decolonial project within settler colonial nation states.- The legacy of Ignacio Martín-Baró and its application to world psychologies.- Rethinking belonging in diasporic/migrant communities in Australia from a community psychological perspective.- Towards a decolonized Maori psychology.- The anthropocene, environmental degradation, climate change and environmental justice.- Towards a decolonised, Afro-centric South African psychology.- Epistemic reconstruction and justice through decolonisingpsychological curricula in higher education in South Africa.- Archives, memory and peace in Chile.- Fanon’s decolonial psychology in the contemporary world.- Psychology, resilience and social change in the colonial context of the Arab world.- Liberation theology, decoloniality and Islamophobia.- Social peace and decoloniality in the Philippines.- Innovative approaches to peace pedagogy and praxis in contexts of violence.