Transnational, National, and Indigenous Racial Subjects:
                    Moving from Critical Discourse to Praxis

Mirón, Luis

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“…Specifically, I will scrutinize the construct of “community”—the explicit and tacit assumptions of community, how students are professionally socialized into community psychology, and their implications for different subject populations. These discussions are framed by a number of approaches, including, but not limited to women of Color and transnational feminisms (e.g., Ahmed, ; Mohanty, ; Villenas, ), liberation psychology (Martín‐Baró, ; Montero & Sonn, ), critical pedagogy (Freire, ; Giroux, ; Hooks, ), and critical indigenous studies (Mirón, ; Smith, ). These theoretical frameworks are committed to dismantling Euro‐American hegemony, and mobilizing perspectives grounded in transformative psychosocial praxis from the majority world.…”

Section: Coloniality Decoloniality and Community Psychologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Decolonizing “Community” in Community Psychology

Dutta

2018

American J of Comm Psychol

108

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This article endeavors to craft pathways that disrupt dominant modes of knowledge production and imagine nonhierarchical epistemic possibilities in teaching community psychology. The first section of the article discusses how the decolonial turn inspires new ways of advancing the critical social justice agenda of community psychology. Drawing upon decolonial frameworks and allied critical theories, I outline how coloniality is entrenched in the ways we theorize, research, and teach about “communities”—and the importance of decolonizing the construct of community in community psychology. The second section presents three vignettes capturing student responses to endeavors in the classroom to dismantle notions of community‐as‐Other. I interpret these vignettes through a decolonial perspective in order to highlight how colonial discourses of community can be produced and potentially maintained in the classroom context. The third section outlines some pedagogical and curricular recommendations as a possible pathway toward decolonizing notions of community. I conclude with some questions/provocations geared toward advancing decolonial and liberatory praxis in community psychology.

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Section: Coloniality Decoloniality and Community Psychologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Decolonizing “Community” in Community Psychology

Dutta

2018

American J of Comm Psychol

108

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“…To this point: scholars of embodied inquiry have chided more traditional methodologies for disembodying all parties in studiesand studies themselvessuch that they lose any practical grounding (where "practical" denotes materialized practice; e.g., James, 2017;Manzi et al, 2019;Mirón, 2014). Mignolo (as cited in James, 2017) refers to positivist attempts at producing generalizable truths through depersonalized examinations as being based on a "zero point epistemology" (p. 2): knowledge with no contextual grounding, and thus no real material meaning.…”

Section: The Violence Of Disembodied Researchmentioning

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Becoming Black Womxn Through Embodied Inquiry

Alexander

2023

Affilia

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In this conceptual piece, I use a framework of embodiment to argue for approaches to inquiry that are better suited to engage and amplify Black womxn's knowledges in social work than are more popular social sciences methods. I also relate embodiment to several epistemic frames, and warn against disembodiment through more popular methods. Finally, I present three embodied research approaches that align with feminist social work principles. Throughout the piece, I reference works that explore feminist and embodied practices while centering Black womxn. I also frame discussion through my own embodiment as a Black femme scholar and practitioner, and embodiment and its potential in inquiries through a Black feminist tradition. Embodiment has been a framework of feminist scholarship for decades, broadly defined as living out knowledge through the body and/or in its environments through a process of becoming. Scholars in this school of thought account for their and participants’ emotions and dispositions as part of how knowledge is lived, while treating the body as a text to be read.

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“…Rather they promote and enforce ideas of the privileged few, and this tramples on the democratic principles of equal opportunities. As Miron (2008) puts it, neoliberalism has spawned a counternarrative to a critical discussion of Indigenous and the oppressed because it masks the issues of inequalities, especially on race. The task, for all of us, is to interrupt and interrogate all hegemonic tendencies in the public sphere so we can bring to the center all communities, especially those who are still on the margins.…”

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Decolonizing Research in Postapartheid South Africa

Ndimande

2012

Qualitative Inquiry

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This article emanates from an in-depth qualitative study that examined ideological beliefs among Indigenous parents regarding school desegregation and school “choice” policies in South Africa. The author discusses the politics of qualitative research design and methodology along two primary dimensions: decolonizing research and the importance of Indigenous languages in research. First, the author argues that the language used in qualitative interviews should be situated within the larger sociocultural context of the inquiry in order to affirm and reinforce cultural identities of research participants, not just of the researcher. Second, the author contends that decolonizing approaches in research interrupt and interrogate colonial tendencies at multiple levels, thereby challenging traditional ways of conducting qualitative research. Following on Smith, and Mutua and Swadener, and Denzin, Lincoln, and Smith, and others, the author argues that decolonizing approaches and culturally affirming linguistic choices in research have the potential to return marginalized epistemologies to the center.

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Transnational, National, and Indigenous Racial Subjects: Moving from Critical Discourse to Praxis

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Decolonizing “Community” in Community Psychology

Decolonizing “Community” in Community Psychology

Becoming Black Womxn Through Embodied Inquiry

Decolonizing Research in Postapartheid South Africa

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