Introducing Decolonial Feminist Community Psychology

Boonzaier, Floretta; Niekerk, Taryn van

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“…This work takes a critical and feminist perspective [ 43 – 45 ], to critically examine systemic neglects and structural violence embedded in institutions and social structures, and how power relations have an impact on society [ 45 – 47 ]. Taking a feminist perspective means considering social inequities from a gender perspective, working to attain freedom, justice and equity and exposing disparities [ 43 , 48 , 49 ]. Reflexivity, considered one of the pillars for critical qualitative research [ 50 ], has been an integral part of the research process.…”

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Experiences of menstrual inequity and menstrual health among women and people who menstruate in the Barcelona area (Spain): a qualitative study

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Introduction Menstrual health and menstrual inequity have been neglected in social, economic, healthcare and political spheres. Although available evidence is scarce, it already suggests a link between experiencing menstrual inequity (which refers to the systematic disparities in accessing menstrual health and education, menstrual products and spaces for menstrual management, among other aspects) and menstrual health outcomes. The aim of this study was to explore experiences of menstrual health and menstrual inequity among women and people who menstruate aged 18–55 in Barcelona and surrounding areas (Spain). Methods A qualitative study, using a critical feminist perspective, was conducted. Sampling was purposeful and selective. Recruitment was through sexual and reproductive health centres, social media and snowball sampling techniques. Thirty-four semi-structured photo-elicitation interviews were conducted between December 2020 and February 2021. Interviews took place in sexual and reproductive health centres, public spaces, and by telephone. Data were analysed using Reflexive Thematic Analysis. Results Three themes were identified: “Systemic neglect of menstruation and the menstrual cycle”, “When “the private” becomes public: menstrual management” and “Navigating menstrual health: between medicalization and agency”. Experiences of menstrual inequity appeared to be widespread among participants. They referred to the impact of having to conceal menstruation and the barriers to managing menstruation in public spaces. Choosing menstrual products was often influenced by price and availability; several participants reported menstrual poverty. A general lack of menstrual education was described. Menstrual education was usually gained through personal experience and self-learnings, or through families and friends. Menstruation and the menstrual cycle had a significant impact on participants’ day-to-day. Accessing and navigating the healthcare system was challenging, as participants mostly reported feeling dismissed and almost exclusively offered hormonal contraception as a panacea to address menstrual health. Conclusions The impact of menstrual inequity appears to be far-reaching. Multidimensional structural policies should promote agency in individuals and communities to enable opportunities for menstrual education, access to menstrual products, healthcare services and adequate menstrual-management facilities. Health professionals’ training is also necessary to improve access to and quality of menstrual healthcare. Policies need to be inclusive of non-binary and trans people, and vulnerable populations.

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“…The analysis of data was informed by a desire to develop an explicit focus on the socio‐spatial dimensions of racial identity constructions through the lens of Black hair care and beauty practices. To this end, a hybrid approach of thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006) and decolonial, feminist ways of social psychological analyses (Boonzaier & van Niekerk, 2019; Kessi & Boonzaier, 2018) was used. Initial analysis of the data was inductive.…”

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Space, race and identity: An ethnographic study of the Black hair care and beauty landscape and Black women's racial identity constructions in England

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2021

Journal of Social Issues

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Centering the identity‐related impact of spatial structures and physical environments in shaping the sense of being and belonging of people in the diaspora is a key decolonial feminist project for and within psychology. This paper presents an ethnographic study that combines observations at three Black hair salons in England with a total of 25 qualitative interviews with Black women (n = 18) and experts such as hairdressers (n = 7). The question this study seeks to answer is: ``How are Black women's racial identities constructed, structed and shaped by and through their interactions with and navigation of the Black hair care and beauty landscape in England?’’ This paper shows that participants reflected on the navigation of space as an identity‐relevant experience. Moreover, racial identity construction happens in place through encounters and socio‐spatial interactions and Black women's ways of seeing, being, and inhabiting the world. Lastly, this paper argues the centrality or marginality of Black hair salons is relative, dependent upon the location and situatedness of the person searching or visiting it. This paper thus highlights avenues for future research into the space‐ race‐identity nexus and invites an examination of the identity‐related significance that spatial arrangements carry for people in the diaspora.

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“…Scholars working from the perspectives of critical and theoretical psychology have increasingly adopted a decolonial lens (Beshara, 2019; Fisher, 2019; Pickren & Pickren, 2021; Segalo & Fine, 2020). Finally, various approaches to community psychology have emerged as a leading site of decolonial efforts in psychology (Boonzaier & van Niekerk, 2019; Carolissen & Duckett, 2018; Seedat & Suffla, 2017), especially approaches related to various perspectives of liberation psychology (e.g., Enriquez, 1993; Martín‐Baró, 1994; Montero & Sonn, 2009). Although decolonial approaches to community psychology vary considerably, they typically emphasize accompaniment or accompliceship with people in struggles for social justice as a privileged source of insight about alternatives to modern/colonial ways of being (Kessi & Suffla, 2022; Martín‐Baró, 1986; Segalo, Manoff, & Fine, 2015).…”

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Decoloniality as a social issue for psychological study

2022

Journal of Social Issues

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This article provides a theoretical introduction to a twoinstallment special issue on decolonial approaches to the psychological study of social issues. Decolonial approaches propose that colonial violence is not confined to the distant past (i.e., colonialism); instead, it persists as coloniality: racialized ways of thinking and being associated with Eurocentric global domination. Rather than characterizing modernity and its individualist psychological manifestations as progress, decolonial theorists use modernity/coloniality to illuminate the colonial violence inherent in the modern order and inseparable from modern individualist development. One implication of a decolonial framework is that colonial violence extends beyond physical space to psychological space, such that complete liberation requires forms of psychological decolonization. Accordingly, articles in this first installment consider decoloniality as a social issue for psychological analysis not only to address historical trauma, internalized inferiority, and other forms of psychological violence among the (formerly) colonized but also to recognize the coloniality in features of Eurocentric modernity-e.g., mainstream environmentalism, prevailing articulations of human rights education, or modern individualist lifeways-that appear liberal or progressive.

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Introducing Decolonial Feminist Community Psychology

Cited by 16 publications

References 10 publications

Experiences of menstrual inequity and menstrual health among women and people who menstruate in the Barcelona area (Spain): a qualitative study

Experiences of menstrual inequity and menstrual health among women and people who menstruate in the Barcelona area (Spain): a qualitative study

Space, race and identity: An ethnographic study of the Black hair care and beauty landscape and Black women's racial identity constructions in England

Decoloniality as a social issue for psychological study

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