Mutual Accompaniment and the Creation of the Commons

Lipsitz, George

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“…Attending to the quintessentially socio-spatial phenomena of some people's attachment to some places brings into play not only clear cases of ''environmental bads'' (e.g., the imposition of various forms of pollution) but the many more intangible losses of personally or locally valued ''environmental goods.'' Furthermore, earth jurisprudence and community-based approaches have been effective in advancing indigenous environmental justice struggles worldwide (Schlosberg & Carruthers, 2010;Shiva, 2020) and present new opportunities for psychologists that are accompanying these movements (Watkins, 2019). Thus, in this research, the authors posed the question: what are community members' relationships with sacred natural sites and how are communities protecting these sites from environmental degradation?…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Dzomo La Mupo assists in organizing meetings in which different clans' dialogue about issues affecting the sites and articulating governance structures. Inherent rights to protect the Zwifho (and Vhadzimu) are aligned with global developments, such as earth jurisprudence, that are restorative and that seek to protect the sanctity of nature, traditional rights, and land tenure rights (Cullinan, 2011;Dzomo La Mupo 2020a;Shiva, 2020;Watkins, 2019).…”

Section: Theme 3 Intergenerational Community Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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“Mupo Is Life”: Intergenerational Community Identity and Safeguarding Sacred Natural Sites in Limpopo Province, South Africa

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Place attachments are essential for community identity, yet little is understood about sacred natural sites' salience to these attachments. A network of sacred natural sites, also known as Zwifho, is located across the Vhembe District in South Africa's Limpopo province. This qualitative case study explores and describes community members' relationships with these sacred natural sites and community responses to ecological degradation affecting these places. The study used purposive sampling to access community members who identify as protectors of the Zwifho, traditional leadership, and community members with particular environmental knowledge. The primary researcher conducted 13 in-depth qualitative interviews and conducted a thematic analysis. After data collection, archival and online materials were used to complement the description of communitybased responses to ecological degradation. Field workers verified the data and the findings were critically reviewed. The findings highlighted psychological bonds that community members have to Zwifho and have demonstrated that these sites are essential for the co-creation and transferal of intergenerational community identity.

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“Mupo Is Life”: Intergenerational Community Identity and Safeguarding Sacred Natural Sites in Limpopo Province, South Africa

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“…A decolonising perspective within psychology has been conceptualised by a range of scholars as showing how contemporary psychological science is inextricably linked to the legacy of (gendered) colonialism, orientalism and Euro-centric assumptions (Adams et al, 2015;Bhatia, 2002Bhatia, , 2018Bulhan, 2015;Kessi, 2017;Kessi & Boonzaier, 2018;Macleod et al, 2017;Watkins, 2019). The first guiding principle, thus, is undermining this legacy.…”

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Feminisms and decolonising psychology: Possibilities and challenges

Macleod

Bhatia

Wen

2020

Feminism & Psychology

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In this special issue, we bring together papers that speak to feminisms in relation to decolonisation in the discipline of psychology. The six articles and two book reviews address a range of issues: race, citizenship, emancipatory politics, practising decolonial refusal, normalising slippery subjectivity, Islamic anti-patriarchal liberation psychology, and decolonisation of the hijab. In this editorial we outline the papers’ contributions to discussions on understanding decolonisation, how feminisms and decolonisation speak to each other, and the implications of the papers for feminist decolonising psychology. Together the papers highlight the importance of undermining the gendered coloniality of power, knowledge and being. The interweaving of feminisms and decolonising efforts can be achieved through: each mutually informing and shaping the other, conducting intersectional analyses, and drawing on transnational feminisms. Guiding principles for feminist decolonising psychology include: undermining the patriarchal colonialist legacy of mainstream psychological science; connecting gendered coloniality with other systems of power such as globalisation; investigating topics that surface the intertwining of colonialist and gendered power relations; using research methods that dovetail with feminist decolonising psychology; and focussing praxis on issues that enable decolonisation. Given the complexities of the coloniality and patriarchy of power-knowledge-being, feminist decolonising psychology may fail. The issues raised in this special issue point to why it mustn’t.

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“…Basic building blocks are practiced: learning to listen deeply, expressing oneself leanly, distilling what is working, crafting generative questions, acknowledging and transforming conflict, and working across differences. When invited into a community to offer a vocational skill set, accompaniment and solidarity for those who are burdened by experiences of collective trauma can allow for such eco‐cultural workers to facilitate and participate in community dialogue, and to be animators for groups exploring critical consciousness of the everyday situations they are encountering (Watkins, , ). Within a participatory framework they can help community members map community assets, conduct appreciative inquiry, and empowerment evaluation as it relates to the groups’ concerns.…”

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“…If we put psychology into this service, it should no longer be sequestered in its own academic silo but engaged in dialogue not only across disciplines but, more importantly, apprenticing to communities and the particular situations they are attempting to transform and for which they invite psychosocial or ecological accompaniment and solidarity (Watkins, , ). Mignolo () described border thinking as “the moment in which the imaginary of the modern world system cracks” (p. 23).…”

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Engaging the Struggle for Decolonial Approaches to Teaching Community Psychology

Watkins

Ciofalo

James

2018

American J of Comm Psychol

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Community psychology's history has traditionally been described within the context of U.S. history, silencing contributions from people of color from the Americas, Asia, the Pacific Islands, and Africa. In a MA/PhD specialization in Community Psychology, Liberation Psychology, Indigenous Psychologies, and Ecopsychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute, we are attempting to steer into critical dialogues about modernity, coloniality, and decoloniality, closely examining our curriculum and pedagogy, including our approaches to fieldwork and research. Turning to Indigenous psychologists, decolonial and critical race theorists, and cultural workers within the U.S. and from the Global South, we are attempting to challenge coloniality in the social sciences, community psychology, and in our own thinking and teaching to unmask hegemonic assumptions and open space for decolonial theory and practice. In this paper, we explore ways in which we are working with our graduate students and faculty to co‐construct a decolonial curriculum that integrates decoloniality so that knowledges from historically silenced locations, as well as anti‐racist and other decolonial praxes can co‐exist and thrive.

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Mutual Accompaniment and the Creation of the Commons

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“Mupo Is Life”: Intergenerational Community Identity and Safeguarding Sacred Natural Sites in Limpopo Province, South Africa

“Mupo Is Life”: Intergenerational Community Identity and Safeguarding Sacred Natural Sites in Limpopo Province, South Africa

Feminisms and decolonising psychology: Possibilities and challenges

Engaging the Struggle for Decolonial Approaches to Teaching Community Psychology

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