Overview
- Critical community psychology perspective
- Explores various modes of anti-capitalist resistance
- Highlights political economy factors
Part of the book series: Community Psychology (COMPSY)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Anti-capitalist political struggle is a site of struggling psychologies. Conscious political action is never far from unconscious desire, and the fight for material justice is always also the fight for dignity and psychological well-being. Yet, how might community psychologists conceive of their discipline in a way that opposes the very capitalist political economy that, historically, most of the psy-disciplines have bolstered in return for disciplinary legitimacy? In its consideration of an anti-capitalist psychology of community, this book does not ignore or try to resolve the contradictory position of such a psychology. Instead, it draws on these contradictions to enliven psychology to the shifting demands - both creative and destructive - of a community-centred anti-capitalism. Using practical examples, the book deals with the psychological components of building community-centred social movements that challenge neoliberal capitalism as a political system, an ideology, anda mode of governing rationality. The book also offers several theoretical contributions that grapple with how an anti-capitalist psychology of community can remain attentive to the psychological elements of anti-capitalist struggle; what the psychological can tell us about anti-capitalist politics; and how these politics can shape the psychological.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Nick Malherbe is a community psychologist interested in violence, visual methods, and discourse. He works with social movements, cultural workers, and young people. He is based in South Africa.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: For an Anti-capitalist Psychology of Community
Authors: Nick Malherbe
Series Title: Community Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99696-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99695-6Published: 23 April 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99698-7Published: 23 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-99696-3Published: 22 April 2022
Series ISSN: 2523-7241
Series E-ISSN: 2523-725X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 117
Topics: Psychology, general, Community and Environmental Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology