scholarly journals Decolonizing Liberation: Toward a Transnational Feminist Psychology

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 388-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuğçe Kurtiş ◽  
Glenn Adams
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Psychology ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Universal Theory ◽  
Feminist Psychology ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Majority World ◽  
Epistemological Position ◽  
Ways Of Being

This paper engages the theme of “decolonizing psychological science” in the context of a perspective on psychological theory and research—namely, feminist psychology—that shares an emphasis on broad liberation. Although conceived as a universal theory and practice of liberation, scholars across diverse sites have suggested that feminism—perhaps especially as it manifests in psychological science—is not always compatible with and at times is even contradictory to global struggles for decolonization. The liberatory impulse of feminist psychology falls short of its potential not only because of its grounding in neocolonial legacies of hegemonic feminisms, but also because of its complicity with neocolonial tendencies of hegemonic psychological science. In response to these concerns, we draw upon on perspectives of transnational feminisms and cultural psychology as tools to decolonize (feminist) psychology. We then propose the possibility of a (transnational) feminist psychology that takes the epistemological position of people in various marginalized majority-world settings as a resource to rethink conventional scientific wisdom and liberate “liberation”. Rather than freeing some women to better participate in global domination, a transnational feminist psychology illuminates sustainable ways of being that are consistent with broader liberation of humanity in general.

scholarly journals PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND GENDER APPROACH

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Irene Zubkova
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
Feminist Psychology ◽  
The Past ◽  
Psychology Of Women ◽  
And Gender

Over the past 30 years, psychological theory and practice abroad has undergone the most severe criticism and reappraisal than ever before. As an academic discipline, psychology contained distorted facts and pseudoscientific theories about women, supported stereotypical ideas about the abilities and psychological characteristics of women and men. Under the powerful influence of the female movement, feminism, independent areas were identified, which included the psychology of women and men (psychology of women, women's study, men's study, gender studies, feminist psychology) in different volumes and contents.

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 235-258
Author(s):  
Gavin Miller
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
The Body ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Feminist Psychology ◽  
Psychological Literature ◽  
The Future ◽  
Critical Feminist ◽  
Stanley Milgram

The conclusion firstly draws out some broader theses from the preceding chapters. It then provisionally analyses the deployment of science fiction tropes within the body of official psychological literature, whether at a popular or more scholarly level. Although science fiction may be exploited in a very simple way within psychological theory and practice as a popularizing and didactic tool, there are other, more complex and often self-conscious ways that the genre is used. Psychologists as varied as Sandra and Daryl Bem, Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer, and Steven Pinker, invoke different speculative narratives of the future as a way to legitimate their particular psychological claims. Perhaps surprisingly, psychology can also make use of science fiction motifs to offer cognitive estrangement of the present, be this consciously, in critical feminist psychology, or unwittingly, as in the famed obedience experiments of Stanley Milgram.

scholarly journals An empirical study of personal resources in people involved in sports

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (118) ◽  
pp. 126-134
Author(s):  
Elena S. Shuchkovskaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Time Perspective ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Personal Resources ◽  
Personal Resource ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
Emotional Component ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Internal Balance

The theoretical part of the article is aimed at the study of personal resources. In psychological science, the problem of personal resources is widely discussed in various fields of psychological science, both domestic and foreign. Personal resources are considered as the most important factor of resilience, allowing the individual to face the challenges of the time, they expand the capabilities of a person and make him more productive and successful. Each of the fields of psychological science focuses on the significance of the effect of personal resource mobilization. The empirical part of the article presents a study of personal resources in people involved in sports. Psychological theory and practice contain contradictions that indicate a lack of knowledge of personal resources as a complex psychological phenomenon that remains problematic and in demand in personal and socio-cultural spaces. The relevance of the study lies in the lack of development of the problem of personal resources in the field of sports. The hypothesis of the study was the assumption about the existing features in the specifics of personal resources in people involved in sports, development of the problem of personal resources in the field of sports. The hypothesis of the study was the assumption about the existing features in the specifics of personal resources in people involved in sports. The study involved 86 people, including 64 girls and 22 men, using the following methods: F. D. Zimbardo's Time Perspective Questionnaire, S. Maddy's Resilience Test, and the «Motivation for Success» method.»T. Ehlers, «Motivation to avoiding failures» T. Ehlers, the Level of claims personality by V. K. Gerbachevsky. The results of the study showed that people who are engaged in sports tend to think for the future, can enjoy work; they have developed the ability to reduce and withstand existential anxiety, are able to maintain internal balance, are open to new experiences, can set themselves more difficult tasks. People who do not play sports are more likely todepend on the opinions of others, turn to past experience, and an emotional component is needed to implement their plans.

A Materialist Basis for Planning Theory and Practice: Comments on the Papers by Roweis and by Forester

1983 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 469-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
C Jensen-Butler
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Scientific Explanation ◽  
Qualitative Change ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Planning Theory ◽  
Rational Approach ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Planning Practice ◽  
Base Analysis ◽  
Epistemological Position

Analysis of the practice of planning is increasingly being used to develop planning theory, The papers by Roweis and Forester in the second issue of Environment and Planning D: Society and Space base analysis of planning practice on hermeneutic, linguistic, and phenomenological approaches, as an alternative to the technical -rational approach to planning theory, In the present paper, I argue that the approaches adopted by these two authors create more problems than they solve, and a critique of Roweis's and Forester's theoretical ideas is made, It is argued that these approaches rest upon idealist ontological assumptions, rendering explanation of qualitative change (development) impossible. Discussion of Giddens's concept of structuration and of the negative consequences for scientific explanation of Habermas's epistemological position is presented, as both approaches are used by Roweis and Forester. Criticism is also made of the separation of territorial relations from relations of substance. Finally, the serious consequences of their approaches for scientific and social practice are outlined. I conclude that this type of approach cannot provide a satisfactory basis for planning theory, and furthermore, that the approach is inherently conservative. Some ideas arc presented concerning planning theory based on materialist ontological foundations.

Psychocultural Study in Missiology: Middle Eastern Insecurity

1987 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-111
Author(s):  
George J. Jennings
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Culture Area ◽  
Mental Problems

Many mission leaders have been confronted with counseling problems, although until recently there has been reluctance to incorporate psychopathologies and therapies into training and experience on a professional level. However, Hesselgrave, to cite one example, joins other early pioneers among missiologists in treating such a field in both book and journals as he has probed into psychocultural facets that involve personnel with mental problems. This paper is an effort to diagnose mental illness in a major culture area that is dominated by Islam in values and worldview. The intent is to apply an “emic” (Pike) approach to psychocultural pathologies in order to assist Christians as they employ psychological theory and practice cross-culturally.

Two Perspectives: On Self, Relationships, and Morality

1983 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nona Plessner Lyons
Keyword(s):  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Self In Relation ◽  
Coding Schemes ◽  
Moral Decisions ◽  
Adolescents And Adults ◽  
Justice And Care ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Nona Plessner Lyons offers interview data from female and male children, adolescents,and adults in support of the assertions of Carol Gilligan (HER, 1977) that there are two distinct modes of describing the self in relation to others—separate/objective and connected—as well as two kinds of considerations used by individuals in making moral decisions—justice and care. She then describes a methodology, developed from the data, for systematically and reliably identifying these modes of self-definition and moral judgment through the use of two coding schemes. Finally, an empirical study testing Gilligan's hypotheses of the relationship of gender to self-definition and moral judgment is presented with implications of this work for psychological theory and practice.

scholarly journals Decolonizing Psychological Science: Introduction to the Special Thematic Section

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 213-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn Adams ◽  
Ignacio Dobles ◽  
Luis H. Gómez ◽  
Tuğçe Kurtiş ◽  
Ludwin E. Molina
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Psychology ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Liberation Psychology ◽  
Global Order ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Diffusion Of Knowledge ◽  
Thematic Section ◽  
Racialized Violence ◽  
Economic Injustice ◽  
And Diffusion

Despite unprecedented access to information and diffusion of knowledge across the globe, the bulk of work in mainstream psychological science still reflects and promotes the interests of a privileged minority of people in affluent centers of the modern global order. Compared to other social science disciplines, there are few critical voices who reflect on the Euro-American colonial character of psychological science, particularly its relationship to ongoing processes of domination that facilitate growth for a privileged minority but undermine sustainability for the global majority. Moved by mounting concerns about ongoing forms of multiple oppression (including racialized violence, economic injustice, unsustainable over-development, and ecological damage), we proposed a special thematic section and issued a call for papers devoted to the topic of "decolonizing psychological science". In this introduction to the special section, we first discuss two perspectives—liberation psychology and cultural psychology—that have informed our approach to the topic. We then discuss manifestations of coloniality in psychological science and describe three approaches to decolonization—indigenization, accompaniment, and denaturalization—that emerge from contributions to the special section. We conclude with an invitation to readers to submit their own original contributions to an ongoing effort to create an online collection of digitally linked articles on the topic of decolonizing psychological science.

The Eisenstein-Vygotsky-Luria Collaboration

Projections ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Vassilieva
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Cultural Psychology ◽  
Film Theory ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Functional Architecture ◽  
Cultural Mediation ◽  
Sergei Eisenstein ◽  
Lev Vygotsky ◽  
Russian Film ◽  
The Brain

This article analyzes the unique historical collaboration between the revolutionary Russian film director Sergei Eisenstein (1898–1948), the cultural psychologist Lev Vygotsky (1896–1934), and the founder of contemporary neuropsychology, Alexander Luria (1902–1977). Vygotsky’s legacy is associated primarily with the idea that cultural mediation plays a crucial role in the emergence and development of personality and cognition. His collaborator, Luria, laid the foundations of contemporary neuropsychology and demonstrated that cultural mediation also changes the functional architecture of the brain. In my analysis, I demonstrate how the Eisenstein-Vygotsky-Luria collaboration exemplifies a strategy of productive triangulation that harnesses three disciplinary perspectives: those of cultural psychology, neuropsychology, and film theory and practice.

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