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Community Psychology Floretta Boonzaier Taryn van Niekerk Editors Decolonial Feminist Community Psychology Community Psychology Series Editors: Mohamed Seedat Institute for Social & Health Sciences, University of South Africa, Ormonde, South Africa Shahnaaz Suffla Violence Injury and Peace Research, University South Africa-MRC, Capetown, South Africa The Community Psychology book series is envisaged as a space to review the established assumptions and knowledge economy underlying community psychology, and encourage writings that recognize the plurality of people and the many geographical, psychological and sociological locations that they occupy. The book series will enable contributors to stimulate thought that questions that which is constructed as critical knowledges, community psychology, and the meanings of liberation and community. Contributions to the book series draw attention to the applications of community psychology in the Global South and the Global North as they relate to such issues as violence, socio-economic inequality, racism, gender, migration, dispossession, climate change, and disease outbreaks. In do so, it centers community psychology as focused on the well-being of collectives, and dealing with such focal issues as deploying psychology to support social justice, the relevance and appropriateness of its internal logic, and methods that deal with the range of psychological, social, cultural, economic, political, environmental, epistemic, and local and global influences that bear on the quality of life of individuals, communities and society. The book series concentrates thus on the following three key areas of focus: 1) decoloniality, power and epistemic justice, 2) knowledge production, contestation and community psychology, and 3) community psychology in context. The series is of vital and immediate relevance to researchers, practitioners, faculty and students from the intervention sciences, including anthropology, sociology, public health, development studies, social work and urban studies More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/15965 Floretta Boonzaier • Taryn van Niekerk Editors Decolonial Feminist Community Psychology Editors Floretta Boonzaier Taryn van Niekerk Hub for Decolonial Feminist Psychologies Hub for Decolonial Feminist Psychologies in Africa in Africa Department of Psychology Department of Psychology University of Cape Town University of Cape Town Rondebosch, South Africa Rondebosch, South Africa ISSN 2523-7241 ISSN 2523-725X (electronic) Community Psychology ISBN 978-3-030-20000-8 ISBN 978-3-030-20001-5 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20001-5 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 This work is subject to copyright. 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Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland This work is dedicated to those countless feminist and decolonial scholars and activists who have come before us, those who are still with us and those who are still on their way. Acknowledgements This book was a collaborative effort, emergent from many conversations and engagements with our colleagues, friends, families and students, too many to men- tion. We thank you all. We would like to acknowledge all the contributors to this volume: Lutfiye Ali, Malvern Tatenda Chiweshe, Josephine Cornell, Brittany Everitt-Penhale, Shose Kessi, Peace Kiguwa, Catriona Macleod, Nick Malherbe, Haile Matutu, Jabulile Mary-Jane Jace Mavuso, Linda Mkhize, Puleng Segalo, Tamara Shefer, Shahnaaz Suffla, and Gabriela Távara. We extend our special thanks to the series editors, Mohamed Seedat and Shahnaaz Suffla, who provided the encouragement, enthusiasm and support for this work. We are deeply appreciative of Haile Matutu’s generous, meticulous and efficient labour as editorial assistant on this project. We would also like to acknowledge the impor- tance of our engagements in the Hub for Decolonial Feminist Psychologies in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town, especially to our friend and colleague, Shose Kessi, who is the co-director of the Hub. We acknowledge the National Research Foundation (NRF) and the Mellon Foundation that provided us the financial support to travel, share and cultivate dia- logue at various conferences around the volume’s thematic focus. We also thank the University of Cape Town for the institutional support for the work. A final and very special thanks go to Sean Daniels, Luke Daniels, Liam Daniels and Bjorn Christ for their love and support. vii Contents Introducing Decolonial Feminist Community Psychology . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Floretta Boonzaier and Taryn van Niekerk Overcoming Essentialism in Community Psychology: The Use of a Narrative- Discursive Approach Within African Feminisms . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Jabulile Mary-Jane Jace Mavuso, Malvern Tatenda Chiweshe, and Catriona Ida Macleod Engaging and Contesting Hegemonic Discourses Through Feminist Participatory Action Research in Peru: Towards a Feminist Decolonial Praxis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Gabriela Távara The Life History Approach as a Decolonial Feminist Method? Contextualising Intimate Partner Violence in South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Taryn van Niekerk and Floretta Boonzaier Envisioning Photovoice as Decolonial Feminist Praxis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Josephine Cornell, Linda Mkhize, and Shose Kessi Engaging Praxes for Decolonial Feminist Community Psychologies Through Youth- Centred Participatory Film-Making . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Nick Malherbe, Shahnaaz Suffla, and Brittany Everitt-Penhale Australian Muslim Women’s Borderlands Identities: A Feminist, Decolonial Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Lütfiye Ali “On the Way to Calvary, I Lost My Way”: Navigating Ethical Quagmires in Community Psychology at the Margins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Haile Matutu ix x Contents From Where We Stand: Reflecting On Engagements With Decolonial Feminist Community Psychology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Peace Kiguwa and Puleng Segalo Performative Activism and Activist Performance: Young People Engaging in Decolonial Feminist Community Psychology in Contemporary South African Contexts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Tamara Shefer Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Contributors Lütfiye Ali Digital Ethnography Research Centre RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia Floretta Boonzaier Hub for Decolonial Feminist Psychologies in Africa, Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa Malvern Tatenda Chiweshe Rhodes University and London School of Economics, Harare, Zimbabwe Josephine Cornell Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa South African Medical Research Council-University of South Africa Violence, Injury and Peace Research Unit, Cape Town, South Africa Institute for Social & Health Sciences, University of South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa Brittany Everitt-Penhale University of South Africa, Institute for Social and Health Sciences, Lenasia, Johannesburg, South Africa South African Medical Research Council, University of South Africa Violence, Injury and Peace Research Unit, Tygerberg, Cape Town, South Africa Shose Kessi Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa Peace Kiguwa Department of Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Catriona Ida Macleod Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa Nick Malherbe University of South Africa, Institute for Social and Health Sciences, Lenasia, Johannesburg, South Africa South African Medical Research Council, University of South Africa Violence, Injury and Peace Research Unit, Tygerberg, Cape Town, South Africa xi
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