A Critical Psychology of the Postcolonial

Hook, Derek

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“…Some note how psychology has been complicit in perpetuating neoliberal governance by portraying people as rational individuals, unconstrained by social ties, who ultimately look out for their own interests (Parker, 2007;Parker & Shotter, 1990). Critical psychology and psychosocial research therefore emanates not only from concerns regarding methodological accuracy, but also from a commitment to an emancipatory politics (Hayes, 2001;Hepburn, 2003;Hook, 2005;Parker, 2002). Frosh (2003) lists some of the theoretical elements contributing to psychosocial studies as psychoanalysis, systems theory, discourse analysis, feminist theory and phenomenology, to which we could add the theoretical work relating to affect (not exclusively psychoanalytic in nature) that has gained increasing prominence in recent years (Brennan, 2004;Clough & Halley, 2007;Gregg & Seigworth, 2010).…”

Section: Lacanian Psychosocial Theory and Tourism Studiesmentioning

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Cosmopolitan empathy in volunteer tourism: a psychosocial perspective

Crossley

2017

Tourism Recreation Research

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Volunteer tourism provides a means of proximate engagement with usually distant others, emphasising reciprocity, cultural learning and humanitarianism in poor communities. As such, the practice has come to be investigated for its potential to engender global citizenship, a broader scope of emotional identification, and new kinds of progressive transnational social spaces. This paper focuses on the intersection between volunteer tourism and cosmopolitan empathy, outlining an account of cosmopolitan empathy that draws on a Lacanian psychosocial reading of tourist subjectivity. This theorisation conceptualises cosmopolitan empathy as an emergent property of interrelated social and psychic fields, which results in the affect serving both ideological and psychological functions. I argue that bridging geographical distance through travel presents volunteer tourists with encounters that can potentially destabilise the discourses and fantasies of the needy, grateful Other underpinning their experiences of cosmopolitan empathy, thus disrupting the conventional spatial ontology of affect that frequently dominates theoretical discussions of cosmopolitanism. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Lacanian Psychosocial Theory and Tourism Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cosmopolitan empathy in volunteer tourism: a psychosocial perspective

Crossley

2017

Tourism Recreation Research

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“…Theoretically speaking, other neighboring fields to consider for Marxist psychology would be radical psychology, emancipatory/ liberation psychology, activist psychology, critical psychology, vernacular psychology, indigenous psychology, post-colonial psychology (cf. Hook, 2005) and feminist psychology. Marxist psychology, after extension and elaboration, can be a theoretical umbrella covering some of the components of these approaches [54,55].…”

Section: Future Research Directions For Marxist Psychologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Marxism and Psychology: An Outdated Interest or a Promising Research Field?

Ub¹

2018

PPRIJ

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In this article, 'Marxist psychology' is introduced within a historical and theoretical context. 'Which Marxism?' and 'which psychology?' were the initial questions for discussion which brought responses related to historical personalities, movements, schools of thoughts, countries and subfields. Alienation, ideology and methodology were considered to be major themes for a Marxist psychology. The relationship between Marxism in power (e.g. Marxism(s) in former Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China) and psychology was considered as a separate category to compare and contrast it with Marxist criticisms aimed at capitalism in capitalist countries. After briefly discussing the links between Marxism and critical psychology, the article proceeds to subfields of psychology to discuss the actual and potential links.

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“…A critical literacy for the use of race, premised on CRT, CWS, and FSM, offers a robust alternative to contact theory. These ideas are not entirely new to critical psychology (Hook, 2005;Stevens, Franchi, & Swart, 2006).…”

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Contact Theory: Too Timid for “Race” and Racism

Erasmus

2010

Journal of Social Issues

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This article extends critiques of contact theory. It notes four deeper limitations:(1) what I call a "psychometric imaginary"; (2) an assumption that "race" is given, homogeneous and stable; (3) contact/noncontact dualism; and (4) inattention to whiteness. These limitations locate contact theory within raciological thought, making contact a reformist, rather than transformative antiracist strategy. I suggest an alternative: a critical literacy for the use of "race." Contrary to Pettigrew's (1998) call for conceptual economy, I argue that conceptual expansion better serves understanding the tenacity of "race" and complexities of racism(s). Contrary to the psychometric imaginary of contact theory, I suggest that we need a visionary political imaginary for an antiracist world. I conclude that the key question for transforming intergroup relations in South Africa is not "which conditions," and "what kinds of" contact are necessary, but "what kinds of politics, knowing, seeing and belonging" are necessary for critical antiracist praxis.

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A Critical Psychology of the Postcolonial

Cited by 73 publications

References 40 publications

Cosmopolitan empathy in volunteer tourism: a psychosocial perspective

Cosmopolitan empathy in volunteer tourism: a psychosocial perspective

Marxism and Psychology: An Outdated Interest or a Promising Research Field?

Contact Theory: Too Timid for “Race” and Racism

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