For An Anti-Capitalist Psychology Of Community (Community Psychology)
Springer
ISBN13:
9783030996956
$128.71
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, and a 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.
- | Author: Nick Malherbe
- | Publisher: Springer
- | Publication Date: May 24, 2022
- | Number of Pages: 129 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover/Psychology
- | ISBN-10: 3030996956
- | ISBN-13: 9783030996956
- Author:
- Nick Malherbe
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Publication Date:
- May 24, 2022
- Number of pages:
- 129 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover/Psychology
- ISBN-10:
- 3030996956
- ISBN-13:
- 9783030996956