Community Psychology, Critical Theory and Community Development in Indigenous Empowerment

Understanding Post-Career adjustment in Ex-Professional Ice Hockey Enforcers: Concussion history and chronic pain

“…The philosophical underpinning of mixed methods in this sense aligns with Deweyan pragmatism (Burke et al, 2017;Feilzer, 2010;Hall, 2013;Norwich, 2020). Therefore, in this study, the "Western" lens utilises both Deweyan pragmatism and quantitative methods while the "Indigenous" lens utilises an Indigenous qualitative approach that is secondarily informed by feminist constructs based within a relational epistemology (Bird-David, 1999;Brownlee & Berthelsen, 2008;Causadias et al, 2018;Chilisa & Tsheko, 2014;Elliot-Groves, 2019;Held, 2019;Kawagley, 1993;Kovach et al, 2014;Marin, Medin, and Ojalehto, 2017;Martin, 2012;Sanchez et al, 2019;Sonn & Quayle, 2012). Embedded within relational epistemology is a highly developed sense of social consciousness characterized by the responsibilities inherent in each relationship (Kawagley, 1993) with knowledge distributed through collective human networks (Held, 2019) by story and narrative (Richardson, 2015).…”

Interrogating Whiteness in Community Research and Action

“…In working within Indigenous communities, Sonn (2009) highlights how research can be utilized as another form of colonization and forced assimilation into White ways of being (i.e., hegemonic whiteness). And in their work with a community-based arts program in Australia, Sonn and Quayle (2012) highlighted how whiteness results in privileging White people, allowing them to distance themselves or deny racism, and remain unaware of racist systems (i.e., epistemologies of ignorance).…”

“…Those engaged in program development and evaluation would do well to consider the ways in which the interventions they design or evaluate either contest or reinforce White supremacy, institutional racism, and White privilege, even if their work is not explicitly about race. For example, the work of Sonn and colleagues (Sonn, 2011;Sonn & Lewis, 2009;Sonn & Quayle, 2012) provides key insights into deconstructing White hegemony as it manifests in community psychology theory and methods. Most notably, they highlight the need for antiracist research and action to "question the positions and discourses of privilege and dominance that stem form an ideology of white superiority and hegemony" (Green et al, 2007, p. 389).…”

Responding to Racialization Through Arts Practice: The Case of Participatory Theater

“…Responses to managing some of the issues that arise with increasing social and cultural diversity have not always incorporated an adequate understanding of the sociopolitical context within which these issues arise (García‐Ramírez, de la Mata, Paloma, & Hernández‐Plaza, ; Sonn & Lewis, ). For example, the role of historical practices and processes such as colonization and racism and their continuing influence on contemporary intergroup relations within the Australian context are often not adequately addressed in approaches to antiracism and Indigenous empowerment (Sonn & Quayle, ).…”