The place and function of power in community psychology: philosophical and practical issues

Fisher, Adrian T.; Sonn, Christopher; Evans, Scotney D.

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“…(Prilleltensky & Gonick, 1996, p. 129). Although literature within community psychology has used various conceptualizations of oppression (Case & Hunter, 2012;Fisher, Sonn & Evans, 2007;Prillelstensky, 2008), most share fundamental assumptions that oppression is: (a) multidimensional, with power relations rooted in various types of resources (e.g., cultural, psychological, material); (b) ecological, operating at multiple, interdependent levels of analysis (e.g., personal, relational, and collective); and (c) dialectical, involving various forms of resistance to domination at multiple levels of analysis.…”

Section: Oppressionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dominant Cultural Narratives, Racism, and Resistance in the Workplace: A Study of the Experiences of Young Black Canadians

Hasford

2016

American J of Comm Psychol

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Although many studies have examined lived experiences of racism and resistance in various contexts, relatively little research has examined such experiences among Black youth within the workplace-particularly in the Canadian context. In this study I use qualitative analyses of narrative interviews with 24 Black Canadian youth and young adults (aged 16-35) to examine the impact of dominant cultural narratives on lived experiences of workplace racism and resistance. Findings are presented using theatrical games as a central conceptual metaphor, suggesting that: (a) dominant cultural narratives have a major impact on relational dynamics of oppression in the workplace; (b) identity performance is a critical strategy for negotiating dominant cultural narratives in the workplace; and (c) panopticism (the internalized gaze) is a significant aspect of internalized oppression. Implications for future research and action are discussed.

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Section: Oppressionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dominant Cultural Narratives, Racism, and Resistance in the Workplace: A Study of the Experiences of Young Black Canadians

Hasford

2016

American J of Comm Psychol

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“…The definition of discourse used in connection to conversation analysis, refers to people's everyday conversation as an interactional site where speakers enact social roles and negotiate identities. Fisher, Sonn and Evans (2007), in turn, defined discourse as "historically constructed regimes of knowledge. These include common-sense assumptions and taken-for-granted ideas, belief sys tems and myths that groups of people share and through which they understand each other" (p. 261).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Combined with Lacanian psychoanalysis, subjectivity was established as constructed within a combination of semiotic, psychic, and ideological processes.4 Critical psychologists, like the critics of discursive psychology, began to observe that this approach framed sub jectivity as overly passive and entirely dependent on relations of control (Black man et al, 2008;Burkitt, 2008). As a consequence, some critical psychologists followed Stuart Hall's Gramscian inspired work to concentrate on active resistance to dominant ideologies (Blackman et ah, 2008;Fisher, Sonn & Evans, 2007). To tap into the active resistance, these researchers emphasized the analysis of lived, everyday, embodied experiences as a way of locating subjectivity as a force for resistance to dominance.…”

Section: Embodied Subjectivity: Transcending the Society/ Individual mentioning

confidence: 98%

“…This is a self that predates any social influence and that fully controls one's existence as a separate entity from society and its conditions (Papadopoulos, 2008). Consequently, it is possible to analyze this self through objective value-free, empirical methods to seek universalist truths of the human behavior (Fisher, Sonn & Evans, 2007). In objectivist psychology, the physical body and body management such as exercise are then understood to be under the control of this self: each individual can voluntarily opt to change her behavior and attitudes.…”

Section: Discursive Psychology: Addressing the Society/ Individual Bimentioning

confidence: 99%

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Embodied Subjectivities: Intersections of Discursive and Critical Psychology With Socio-Cultural Exercise Research

Markula¹

2014

Sociology of Sport Journal

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There has been a longstanding divide between the sociology and psychology of exercise despite common interests in individual subjectivity and identity construc tion through exercise practices. In this paper. 1 aim to find possible intersections for the two disciplines by using theoretical insights from discursive and critical psychology as well as sociocultural research on embodied experiences in exercise. Drawing from both psychological and sociocultural research on exercising bodies. I problematize different conceptualizations of subjectivity, identity, and power relations to critically examine interconnections between these different research traditions. I also highlight some of their theoretical limitations to suggest further theoretical readings that might enhance interdisciplinary analyses of change emanating from the microlevel of individual actions by both psychological and sociocultural research on the physically active body.II y a depuis longtemps une division entre la sociologie et la psychologie de l'activite physique en depit d'interets communs pour la subjectivity individuelle et la construction de l'identite' par I'interm ediate des pratiques d 'activites physiques. Mon objectif dans cet article est de trouver des intersections possibles pour les deux disciplines en utilisant des elements theoriques de la psychologie discursive et critique ainsi que de la recherche socioculturelle sur les experiences vecues au sein de I'activite physique. En me basant a la fois sur la recherche psychologique et socio-culturelle a propos des corps physiquement actifs, je problematise differentes conceptions de la subjectivity, de l'identity et des relations de pouvoir pour etudier de fag on critique les interconnections entre ces traditions de recherche differentes. Je mets aussi en evidence quelques-unes de leurs limitations theoriques pour inciter a davantage de lectures theoriques qui pourront ameliorer les analyses interdisciplinaires du changement emanant du micro-niveau d'actions individuelles par la recherche psychologique et socio-culturelle sur le corps physiquement actif.In th eir call fo r p a p ers fo r th is sp e c ia l issu e th e e d ito rs no te " a lo n g sta n d in g d iv id e b e tw een the so cio lo g y an d p sy c h o lo g y o f sp o rt and p h y sic al cu ltu re." A s a sp o rt so c io lo g ist stu d y in g ex erc ise, I have lo n g su b scrib e d to a sim ila r sen tim en t:Markula is with the Department: Physical Education and Recreation,

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“…Grounding in critical theory provides a basis through which to examine manifestations and mechanisms of disciplinary knowledge production and its relationship social accountability at a global level in the intellectual project. Critical scholars have argued that foregrounding issues of power will enable community psychologists to discern “who benefits and who loses out” (Fisher, Sonn, & Evans, , p. 260) and begin to elucidate the complex inter‐relationship between knowledge making and processes of social exclusion. This includes the power dynamics implicit in the epistemological and methodological choices and the imperative of reflexivity in scholarly work.…”

Section: Knowledge Practices Disciplinary Reflexivity and Social Exmentioning

confidence: 99%

Who's Left Out and Who's Still on the Margins? Social Exclusion in Community Psychology Journals

Graham

2017

Journal Community Psychology

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Although community psychology claims to have a social justice‐oriented value base, archival studies of publications in the field have identified deficits in marginalized group representation and a tendency for published work to perpetuate social exclusion. This disjuncture has implications for our understanding of power relations in community psychology scholarship. In this article, I analyze who is included and excluded in the participant choices of 895 empirical studies published in 4 international community psychology journals over a decade. The analysis shows that studies largely report on minority world populations that signify privileged social groups or fail to foreground groups affected by processes of social exclusion. I argue that understanding how knowledge creation may perpetuate social exclusion is fundamental to the role of community psychologists. The article highlights the consequences for the field of the choices of groups we choose to study and report on, as well as those we neglect, in knowledge‐making enterprises.

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The place and function of power in community psychology: philosophical and practical issues

Cited by 60 publications

References 40 publications

Dominant Cultural Narratives, Racism, and Resistance in the Workplace: A Study of the Experiences of Young Black Canadians

Dominant Cultural Narratives, Racism, and Resistance in the Workplace: A Study of the Experiences of Young Black Canadians

Embodied Subjectivities: Intersections of Discursive and Critical Psychology With Socio-Cultural Exercise Research

Who's Left Out and Who's Still on the Margins? Social Exclusion in Community Psychology Journals

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