Latin American Community Psychology: Development, Implications, and Challenges Within a Social Change Agenda

Montero, Maritza; Díaz, Nelson

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“…The community interventions of this time were often carried out with state funding and the assistance of university‐based researchers (Krause, ). However, it was in the 1980s during Pinochet's dictatorship that Chilean CP began to take on a politically and socially conscious nature, as various foreign‐funded NGOs intervened in communities in order to maintain the people's political consciousness and help them defend themselves against state repression and human rights violations (Montero & Díaz, ). Meanwhile, several public and private universities, including Universidad de Chile, Universidad Católica de Chile, and Universidad Diego Portales, had begun establishing CP‐related courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels.…”

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“…Meanwhile, several public and private universities, including Universidad de Chile, Universidad Católica de Chile, and Universidad Diego Portales, had begun establishing CP‐related courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Thus, a distinct Chilean CP emerged as one characterized by “social commitment, quality of life, and parallelism between practice and academia” and influenced by the Southern tradition of participatory research (Montero & Díaz, , p. 77). After Chile's transition back to democracy in 1990, CP was institutionalized as a sub‐discipline of psychology and widely adopted by government agencies as a normative form of psychosocial assistance; as a result, Chilean CP has lost some of its previously strong emphasis on extra‐institutional social change (Krause, ) in favor of community mental health (Fernández, Vicencio, Vallejos & Jiménez, ).…”

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Predicting the Emergence of Community Psychology and Community Development in 91 Countries with Brief Case Studies of Chile and Ghana

Hanitio

Perkins

2017

American J of Comm Psychol

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Using a mixed-method analysis, we propose and test a framework for predicting the international development of community psychology (CP) and community development (CD) as two examples of applied community-based research (CBR) disciplines aiming to link local knowledge generation with social change. Multiple regressions on an international sample of 91 countries were used to determine the relative influences of preexisting grassroots activism, population size, social and economic development, and civil liberties on estimates of the current strength of CP and CD based on Internet search and review of training courses and programs, published articles and journals, and professional organizations and conferences in these countries. Our results provide support for the proposed model and suggest that grassroots activism positively accounts for the development of CP and CD, above and beyond the influences of the other predictors. Brief qualitative case-study analyses of Chile (high CP, low CD) and Ghana (high CD, low CP) explore the limitations of our quantitative model and the importance of considering other historical, sociopolitical, cultural, and geographic factors for explaining the development of CP, CD, and other applied community studies.

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Predicting the Emergence of Community Psychology and Community Development in 91 Countries with Brief Case Studies of Chile and Ghana

Hanitio

Perkins

2017

American J of Comm Psychol

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“…Para la PC, tanto en América Latina como en otros lugares del mundo, es muy importante que, al perseguir una transfor-mación en una comunidad, esta se dé a través de la participación y el compromiso de los grupos organizados y de las personas interesadas en una comunidad (e.g., Irizarry & Serrano-García, 1979;Lane & Sawaia, 1991López-Sánchez & Serrano-García, 1995;Montero, 2006a;Montero & Varas Díaz, 2007;Reich et al, 2007;Sánchez & Wiesenfeld, 1995). Esta necesidad, entonces, no nace de una teoría, aun cuando ella sea utilizada y generada también en el proceso de actuar y reflexionar para lograr los objetivos específicos (Montero, 2009).…”

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Fortalecimiento de la Ciudadanía y Transformación Social: Área de Encuentro entre la Psicología Política y la Psicología Comunitaria

Montero

2010

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En este artículo se enfocan las relaciones entre psicología comunitaria (PC) y psicología política (PP), centrándose en los aportes que la PC hace a la PP y en los aspectos en los que ambas ramas de la psicología coinciden. Se parte de la idea de transformación social presente en ambas subdisciplinas psicológicas y en el objetivo central de la PC, como se reconoce en la literatura latinoamericana y anglosajona, señalando su carácter móvil y la importancia de la participación y el compromiso en su logro. Se discuten las nociones de poder y fortalecimiento, señalándose la perspectiva simétrica del poder generada en América Latina, que muestra su influencia positiva en las transformaciones comunitarias. Se describen otros aportes de la PC a la PP, tales como la perspectiva ética, y relacionada con ella, la necesidad de la sensibilización de agentes externos, en paridad con agentes internos, la perspectiva liberadora y el uso de herramientas metodológicas compartidas entre ambas ramas de la psicología. Se concluye reiterando la condición política de la PC y su complementariedad con la PP. Palabras clave: psicología comunitaria, psicología política, interrelaciónThis paper deals with the relationships between community psychology (CP) and political psychology (PP), focusing on the contributions of the former to PP and on aspects that are common to both branches of psychology. Beginning with the idea of social transformation, present in both psychological subdisciplines and a central objective for Latin American and Anglo-Saxon PC, the dynamic condition of transformation is argued. Notions of power, strengthening, and empowerment are discussed, pointing out the symmetrical perspective of power generated in Latin America, whose positive influence is demonstrated in communal transformations. Other contributions are discussed, such as the ethical perspective and, related to it, the necessity of working in the sensitization of external agents as well as internal agents, the liberating perspective and the shared methodological tools used by PC and PP. It concludes by demonstrating the political condition of PC and its complementary relationship with PP.

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“…Religion as an organizational catalyst for communal actions is not unusual in Latin American countries. For example, organizations around the theology of liberation rallied communal identities in Latin America during the 1960s and 1970s (Montero and Varas-Díaz 2007). Still, few people today make the same connection between religion's capacity to provide structure and agency, and heavy metal music.…”

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On your knees and pray! The role of religion in the development of a metal scene in the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico

Varas-Díaz

Rivera-Segarra

Mendoza

et al. 2014

International Journal of Community Music

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Heavy metal music is simultaneously reflective of, and reactive to, the cultural underpinnings of the spaces in which it is created. Wallach et al. have emphasized the need to understand metal music outside of Anglo-American contexts and culture. Although the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico seems like an unlikely scenario for the emergence of a metal scene, it has in fact existed via underground means for the past 25 years. Due to the Island’s strong Hispanic and Catholic roots, stemming from Spanish colonialism in the fifteenth century, religion has played a central role in the development of the local metal scene. The first systematic organization of a metal scene was structured by Christian metal groups under the name of ‘Metal Mission’ and served as a meeting space for social interaction based on metal music and religion. The objective of this article is to document the role of Christian religion in the emergence and maintenance of a metal scene in Puerto Rico. We will present data from a larger study of the metal scene in Puerto Rico, which used a mixed methods approach including ethnographic observations (300 hours), qualitative interviews (n=50) and surveys (n=400) with members of Puerto Rico’s metal scene. Although metal music has roots in critical perspectives towards religion, our research shows how it has also helped shape the Island’s metal scene.

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Latin American Community Psychology: Development, Implications, and Challenges Within a Social Change Agenda

Cited by 27 publications

References 11 publications

Predicting the Emergence of Community Psychology and Community Development in 91 Countries with Brief Case Studies of Chile and Ghana

Predicting the Emergence of Community Psychology and Community Development in 91 Countries with Brief Case Studies of Chile and Ghana

Fortalecimiento de la Ciudadanía y Transformación Social: Área de Encuentro entre la Psicología Política y la Psicología Comunitaria

On your knees and pray! The role of religion in the development of a metal scene in the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico

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