Threading a decolonial feminist response to Covid‐19
One community psychologist's reflection on the assemblages of violence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11054888 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jesica Siham Fernández (0000-0002-5513-7413, Department of Ethnic Studies Santa Clara University Santa Clara California USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 191-205 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Community Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-0562 • E-ISSN: 1573-2770 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/ajcp.12662 |
| PMID | 37042808 |
| OpenAlex | W4365136385 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 38 |
To challenge and interrogate the assemblages of violence produced by racial capitalism, and exacerbated by the COVID‐19 pandemic, community psychologists must engage in a transdisciplinary critical ethically reflexive practice. In this reflexive essay, or first‐person account, I offer a decolonial feminist response to COVID‐19 that draws strength from the writings of three women of Color decolonial and postcolonial feminist thinkers: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Sylvia Wynter, and Arundhati Roy. Through their writings I share my reflections on the sociopolitical moment associated with COVID‐19. Of importance, I argue in support of engaging a decolonial feminist standpoint to understand the inequitable and dehumanizing conditions under COVID‐19, and the possibilities for transformative justice. I offer this reflexive essay with the intention of summoning community psychology and community psychologists to look toward transdisciplinarity, such as that which characterizes a decolonial standpoint and feminist epistemologies. Writings oriented toward imagination, relationality, and borderland ways of thinking that are outside, in‐between or within, the self and the collective “we” can offer valuable guidance. The invitation toward a transdisciplinary critical ethically reflexive practice calls us to bear witness to movements for social justice; to leverage our personal, professional and institutional resources to support communities in struggle. A decolonial feminist standpoint guided by the words of Anzaldúa, Wynter, and Roy can cultivate liberatory conditions that can materialize as racial freedom, community wellbeing, and societal thriving
Feminism · Oppression · Political science · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Transformative learning · Child Abuse and Trauma · Community Health and Development · Gender Studies · Law · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
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Racial Capitalism
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on marginalized populations in the United States
Borderlands/La Frontera
Inequity and the disproportionate impact of Covid-19 on communities of color in the United States
Decolonizing Liberation
More expendable than slaves? Racial justice and the after-life of slavery
Césaire’s Gift and the Decolonial Turn
Feminisms and decolonising psychology
Engaging the Struggle for Decolonial Approaches to Teaching Community Psychology
Stories of Relative Privilege
Searching for Feminism
Bridging the Personal and the Political
Prioritizing the Local in an Era of Globalization
Culture and Community Psychology
Decolonizing “Community” in Community Psychology
When Research “Unravels”
Considering Community Psychology Competencies
A History of Women and Feminist Perspectives in Community Psychology
Unsettling the Settlers
A Pedagogical Response to Decoloniality
The Quest for a Liberating Community Psychology
Feminist and Community Psychology Ethics in Research with Homeless Women
Swampscott in International Context
Speaking for Ourselves
Weaving Feminism and Community Psychology
Toward an Ethical Reflective Practice of a Theory in the Flesh
Engaging critical community resilience praxis
Embodying critical feminism in community psychology
Centre/ing decolonial feminist psychology in Africa
Neoliberal Blues and Prec(ar)ious Knowledge
Coloniality of Power and Eurocentrism in Latin America
Decolonizing Psychological Science
(De)colonizing Culture in Community Psychology
Frantz Fanon and the decolonial turn in psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |