scholarly journals Activism in changing times: Reinvigorating community psychology: Introduction to the Special Thematic Section

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 526-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Flora Cornish ◽  
Catherine Campbell ◽  
Cristián Montenegro
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Community Psychology ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Community Agency ◽  
Thematic Section ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Changing Times

The field of community psychology has for decades concerned itself with the theory and practice of bottom-up emancipatory efforts to tackle health inequalities and other social injustices, often assuming a consensus around values of equality, tolerance and human rights. However, recent global socio-political shifts, particularly the individualisation of neoliberalism and the rise of intolerant, exclusionary politics, have shaken those assumptions, creating what many perceive to be exceptionally hostile conditions for emancipatory activism. This special thematic section brings together a diverse series of articles which address how health and social justice activists are responding to contemporary conditions, in the interest of re-invigorating community psychology’s contribution to emancipatory efforts. The current article introduces our collective conceptualisation of these ‘changing times’, the challenges they pose, and four openings offered by the collection of articles. Firstly, against the backdrop of neoliberal hegemony, these articles argue for a return to community psychology’s core principle of relationality. Secondly, articles identify novel sources of disruptive community agency, in the resistant identities of nonconformist groups, and new, technologically-mediated communicative relations. Thirdly, articles prompt a critical reflection on the potentials and tensions of scholar-activist-community relationships. Fourthly, and collectively, the articles inspire a politics of hope rather than of despair. Building on the creativity of the activists and authors represented in this special section, we conclude that the environment of neoliberal individualism and intolerance, rather than rendering community psychology outdated, serves to re-invigorate its core commitment to relationality, and to a bold and combative scholar-activism.

scholarly journals Developing political compassion through narrative imagination in human rights education

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 24-44
Author(s):  
Iida Pyy
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Practical Reasoning ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Human Rights Education ◽  
Narrative Imagination ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
Political Emotions

This paper argues that political compassion is a necessary disposition for engaging with human rights principles and combatting social injustices such as racial discrimination. Drawing from Martha Nussbaum’s theory of political emotions, the paper concentrates on the need to understand compassion as connected to cognition and practical reasoning. Moreover, the paper offers suggestions of how to educate towards political compassion in human rights education (HRE) through Nussbaum’s notion of narrative imagination. To capture the multiperspectival and partial dimensions of HRE, the paper further employs the work of critical HRE scholars and emphasises the importance of counter-narratives and reflective interpretation of narratives. Refined by critical considerations, Nussbaum’s work on compassion and narrative imagination provides a new and important perspective for understanding the relation between human rights, emotions and social justice in the context of contemporary HRE theory and practice.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Margaret A. McLaren
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Economic Justice ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Universal Human Rights ◽  
Feminist Work

This chapter provides an overview of the book, explains the context of the project, and introduces a feminist social justice framework based on anti-oppression and anti-exploitation. The chapter also outlines a feminist social justice approach drawn from a wide range of feminist work. One feature of this approach is the connection between theory and practice. The chapter discusses the participant action research that the book uses; interviews and observation of grassroots women’s organizations in India engaged in political and social activism and grounded in economic justice projects informed the feminist social justice framework. This framework offers an alternative to the liberal paradigm of universal human rights, neoliberal economic projects, and cosmopolitanism for analyzing and pursuing global gender justice. The feminist social justice approach recognizes the importance of relationality, intersectionality, and power relations for analyzing the complex relations of oppression women face globally.

Critical Reflection of Section Two

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abigail J. Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Sexual Identities

Liberation is often understood as a project of self-liberation or at least individual liberation, especially by the nearly-always-individualistic field of psychology. This is not the liberatory goal at stake in Bullock’s or Moane’s work in Section Two. They are aiming at the liberation of groups—poor people, women without access to abortion, those with socially marginalized sexual identities, and others—through a process of liberation that both is individual and includes engagement with the social processes of subordination and oppression. The authors have found and outlined resources in psychology that help with both levels of that project—the personal and the structural. In doing so, both Bullock and Moane show that the language and theory of human rights can be useful. The psychology both of these chapters outlines is one that brings psychologists and communities into meaningful partnerships to create social justice by drawing on a human rights framework.

APA efforts in promoting human rights and social justice.

2017 ◽  
Vol 72 (8) ◽  
pp. 778-790 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick T. L. Leong ◽  
Wade E. Pickren ◽  
Melba J. T. Vasquez
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice

Career Paths in Community Psychology and Social Justice Related Fields

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret I. Davis ◽  
Josefina Alvarez ◽  
Carmen Curtis ◽  
Lucia D'Arlach ◽  
Joseph Ferrari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Community Psychology ◽  
Career Paths

Towards an Archival Critique: Opening Possibilities for Addressing Neoliberalism in the Archival Field

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marika Cifor ◽  
Jamie A. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Archival Studies ◽  
Ethical Practice ◽  
Political Practice ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Library And Information Studies ◽  
Information Studies ◽  
Contemporary Life

Neoliberalism, as economic doctrine, as political practice, and even as a "governing rationality" of contemporary life and work, has been encroaching on the library and information studies (LIS) field for decades. The shift towards a conscious grappling with social justice and human rights debates and concerns in archival studies scholarship and practice since the 1990s opens the possibility for addressing neoliberalism and its elusive presence. Despite its far-reaching influence, neoliberalism has yet to be substantively addressed in archival discourse. In this article, we propose a set of questions for archival practitioners and scholars to reflect on and consider through their own hands-on practices, research, and productions with records, records creators, and distinct archival communities in order to develop an ongoing archival critique. The goal of this critique is to move towards "an ethical practice of community, as an important mode of participation." This article marks a starting point for critically engaging the archival studies discipline along with the LIS field more broadly by interrogating the discursive and material evidences and implications of neoliberalism.

Rule of Law in India

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harish Narasappa
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Dispute Resolution ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Application Of Law ◽  
Primary Element ◽  
The Status ◽  
Dispute Resolution Mechanism

Rule of law is the foundation of modern democracies. It envisages, inter alia, participatory lawmaking, just and certain laws, a bouquet of human rights, certainty and equality in the application of law, accountability to law, an impartial and non-arbitrary government, and an accessible and fair dispute resolution mechanism. This work’s primary goal is to understand and explain the obvious dichotomy that exists between theory and practice in India’s rule of law structure. The book discusses the contours of the rule of law in India, the values and aspirations in its evolution, and its meaning as understood by the various institutions, identifying reason as the primary element in the rule of law mechanism. It later examines the institutional, political, and social challenges to the concepts of equality and certainty, through which it evaluates the status of the rule of law in India.

scholarly journals Diversity and citizenship in the curriculum

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugh Starkey
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
National Unity ◽  
Shared Humanity ◽  
Definition Of

This article comments on keynote speeches given by Keith Ajegbo and Audrey Osler. The programme of study for citizenship derived from the Crick report and did not emphasise race equality and national unity for security. Osler argues that the Ajegbo review addressed teaching of ethnic, religious and cultural diversity but did not confront the inadequacies of British democracy or reassert social justice, a sense of shared humanity and a commitment to human rights. Proposing, let alone imposing, a definition of Britishness is futile, but it is possible to promote cosmopolitan patriotism supported by explicit principles, concepts and values.

Brokering reflective spaces: Experiential learning in a summer opera program

2021 ◽  
pp. 147402222110074
Author(s):  
Kelly Bylica ◽  
Sophie Louise Roland ◽  
Laura Benjamins
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Learning Program ◽  
Musical Skills ◽  
Musical Engagement ◽  
High Level ◽  
Practice Framework ◽  
The Impact

Formal music performance studies within university settings strive to prepare the next generation of performers and pedagogues for musical engagement beyond university. Yet literature suggests that these spaces of study do not always lead to a sense of readiness for potential professional worlds, due in part to a lack of opportunities for guided, in-depth, critical reflection that helps students connect theory and practice. This article articulates findings from a study that sought to consider the impact of deliberate opportunities for reflection in The Accademia Europea dell’Opera (AEDO), a university-affiliated summer opera intensive experiential learning program. Utilizing a communities of musical practice framework, researchers worked collaboratively to help participants engage in guided critical reflection as they developed high-level musical skills through rehearsals and performances. This article specifically considers the ways in which a ‘broker’ helped participants develop practices of reflection and personal agency both within and beyond this context.

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