Community psychology and its (dis)contents, archival legacies and decolonisation

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 421-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Seedat ◽  
Shahnaaz Suffla
Keyword(s):  
Community Psychology ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Global South ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Sixth International Conference ◽  
Sixth International

This article serves as the introduction to the Special Issue on Liberatory and Critical Voices in Decolonising Community Psychologies. The Special Issue was inspired by the Sixth International Conference on Community Psychology, held in South Africa in May 2016, and resonates with the call for the conscious decolonisation of knowledge creation. We argue that the decolonial turn in psychology has re-centred critical projects within the discipline, particularly in the Global South, and offered possibilities for their (re)articulation, expansion, and insertion into dominant and mimetic knowledge production. In the case of Africa, we suggest that the work of decolonising community psychologies will benefit from engagement with the continent’s multiple knowledge archives. Recognising community psychologies’ (dis)contents and the possibilities for its reconstruction, and appealing to a liberatory knowledge archive, the Issue includes a distinctive collection of articles that are diverse in conceptualisation, content, and style, yet evenly and singularly focused on the construction of insurgent knowledges and praxes. As representations of both production and resistance, the contributions in this issue provide the intellectual and political platforms for social, gender, and epistemic justice. We conclude that there are unexplored and exciting prospects for scholarly work on the psychologies embedded in the overlooked knowledge archives of the Global South. Such work would push the disciplinary boundaries of community psychologies; help produce historicised and situated conceptions of community, knowledge, and liberation; and offer distinctive contributions to the global bodies of knowledge concerned with the well-being of all of humanity.

scholarly journals Critical Qualitative Inquiry in China Studies: Introduction to the Special Issue

2021 ◽  
pp. 107780042110146
Author(s):  
Ping-Chun Hsiung
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
China Studies

This Special Issue aims to advance critical qualitative inquiry in China studies and contribute to a vibrant, inclusive global community. It builds upon debates and efforts in the behavioral and social sciences among area specialists in two eras: researchers in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the diaspora in the 1980s who sought to sinologize behavioral and social sciences, and sociologists in China in the 2000s who are seeking to indigenize these fields. The Issue takes a two-pronged approach toward advancing critical reflection in knowledge production: (a) it aspires to diminish the current influence of Western and positivistic paradigms on behavioral and social sciences research; (b) it seeks to challenge discursive hegemonic influences to create and sustain space for critical qualitative inquiry. The Issue traverses disciplinary boundaries between history and behavioral and social sciences within China Studies. It opens dialogue with the non-area specialists who are the primary audience of the Qualitative Inquiry.

scholarly journals Maritime Archaeology and Capacity Development in the Global South

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Blue ◽  
Colin Breen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Maritime Archaeology ◽  
Capacity Development ◽  
Global South ◽  
International Congress ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Training ◽  
Sixth International

Abstract The Honor Frost Foundation sponsored a session, ‘Maritime Archaeology, Capacity Building and Training in the Developing World’ at the Sixth International Congress on Underwater Archaeology (IKUWA VI) held in Freemantle, Australia, in November 2016, dedicated to capacity development in the context of maritime archaeology. The papers presented in this special issue of this journal represent an attempt to understand different approaches to capacity building and development within the sphere of maritime cultural heritage. This paper, by way of an introduction to the subject, and this special issue, aims to explore the nature of capacity building and development in relation to maritime cultural heritage.

Realigning Theory, Practice, and Justice in Global South Youth Studies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Cooper ◽  
Sharlene Swartz ◽  
Clarence M. Batan ◽  
Laura Kropff Causa
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Global South ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Youth Studies ◽  
Relevant Theory ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Business As Usual

This essay outlines an agenda for youth studies from the vantage point of the Global South and describes the structure of the Oxford handbook of Global South Youth Studies. Youth in the Global South emerge in the postcolonial world in relation to material and social precarity, with their everyday practices constituting embodied forms of knowing, responses to their social, material, economic, and political circumstances. Research with Southern youth therefore involves working alongside, documenting, and acknowledging these practices, an exercise that constitutes a form of ‘epistepraxis’: a knowledge creation endeavor underpinned by contextually relevant theory, aligned with people’s innovative practices, in search of social justice. This approach is reflected in the structure of the handbook. An introductory section distils the conditions that precipitated the Global South and the characteristics of youthful populations that inhabit it. The second part grapples with features of life for youth in the Global South, unpacking eleven relevant concepts, using Southern theory. The final section continues to explore the intersections of theory, practice, and politics, shifting focus to look specifically at examples of methodological, practical, and policy-related interventions, in an attempt to disrupt business-as-usual knowledge production.

Special Issue on the Sixth International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (AFSS' 2004)

2006 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 443-443
Author(s):  
Nguyen Hoang Phuong ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Fuzzy Logic ◽  
Hybrid Systems ◽  
Fuzzy Systems ◽  
Constraint Satisfaction Problems ◽  
Approximate Reasoning ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
International Conference ◽  
Sixth International Conference ◽  
Sixth International

This special issue features five papers devoted to fuzzy systems and their applications. Papers were selected from those accepted and presented at the Sixth International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (AFSS' 2004) held in Hanoi, Vietnam on December 15-17, 2004. AFSS' 2004 and Tutorials held in Hue city on December 18-19, 2004, included a wide spectrum of research topics on "fuzzy set theory", "intelligent technology", "fuzzy logic and approximate reasoning", "neural networks", "genetic algorithms", "hybrid systems" and "soft computing". Over 40 papers were accepted and presented by researchers from countries including Brazil, Canada, Taiwan, India, Korea, Malaysia, Japan and Vietnam. Five papers receiving outstanding recommendations in reviews have been selected for this issue. The topics they address include fuzzy logic for robots, data mining, neural networks in medicine, Fuzzy Constraint Satisfaction Problems, and hybrid systems. As editors of this special issue, we are sincerely grateful to the authors. Special thanks also go to the referees for their excellent work, to Mr. Kazuki Ohmori for his aid in coordinating the issue's publication, and to the JACIII Editorial Board, especially Professor Kaoru Hirota for his invaluable support and encouragement. Finally, we thank Professors Masao Mukaidono and Witold Pedrycz for their contributions to AFSS' 2004. Without their support, AFSS' 2004 and this issue would not have been possible.

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