M B Lykes
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 14377 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | M B Lykes |
| NOMBRES | M B |
| APELLIDO | Lykes |
| FIRMA | LYKES M B |
| AFILIACIONES | Boston College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6772-8413 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 60 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 307 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1982 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Reflexive Engagement with Transitional Justice
Decolonizing Transitional Justice
Practices of knowing and being are not isolable; they are mutually implicated.We don't obtain knowledge by standing outside the world; we know because we are part of the world.We are part of the world in its differential becoming.The separation of epistemology from ontology is a reverberation of a metaphysics that assumes an inherent difference between human and nonhuman, subject and object, mind and body, matter and discourse
Towards an ethics of compassionate care in accompanying human suffering
In the face of forced migrants’ urgent needs and ongoing human rights violations endured within and across borders, scholars note the ‘dual imperative’ (Jacobsen and Landau 2003) of documenting these realities while also responding through humanitarian advocacy and/or political activism. This article documents one such experience, that is, an action research process that began with the first author’s accompaniment of Central American asylum-seeki…
Racialized and Gendered Impoverishment and Violence in Ceará, Brazil
This research analyzes trajectories of rights violations at the intersections of impoverishment, racism and patriarchal violence against mothers and sisters of young Black women murdered in Ceará, a state in Northeastern Brazil. The persistence and protagonism of these women are documented through three interviews with and three field diaries of family members of murdered young women. The data was analyzed using the qualitative analysis software …
Transitional Justice and Corporate Accountability
Corporate accountability for complicity in past and ongoing gross violations of human rights and economic crimes is a rapidly growing area of interest in the transitional justice field. Addressing such violations and their role in fueling conflict and repression is now recognized as a key component of societies’ efforts to come to terms with the past, and, perhaps even more importantly, creating the conditions for non-recurrence of violent confli…
Making meaning of women's persistence and protagonism in the wake of genocidal violence
Fifteen Maya Ixil and K’iche’ women of Chajul, Guatemala, were interviewed 17 years after publishing their feminist participatory action photovoice research. Their book documents gross violations of human rights during nearly 36 years of armed conflict and their memories of survivance and persistence. A constructivist grounded theory analysis of in-depth interviews with these Maya Ixil and K’iche’ women contributed to the authors’ “bottom up” mea…
Resilience, Adaptive Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice
Processes of post-war reconstruction, peacebuilding and reconciliation are partly about fostering stability and adaptive capacity across different social systems. Nevertheless, these processes have seldom been expressly discussed within a resilience framework. Similarly, although the goals of transitional justice – among them (re)establishing the rule of law, delivering justice and aiding reconciliation – implicitly encompass a resilience element…
Dialogue with Guatemalan Indian Women
In this chapter, the author describes aspects of the ongoing collaboration between North American women and Guatemalan Indian women from the author perspective as one of the North American women participants. Not surprisingly, the interview strategy has been modified in collaboration with Guatemalan participants to include a range of interactions and conversations that are broader in scope than the original questions. The understanding of Guatema…
‘Echo images’
Researcher reflexivity and checking researcher interpretations with participants, important processes that contribute to the rigour of qualitative research, are primarily engaged through verbal and text-based methods of reflection and communication. Introducing art into these processes can deepen their quality by accessing emotional information in non-verbal processing centres in the brain. This paper introduces ‘echo images’ – a tool for researc…
Racism and Transitional Justice
We write this Editorial at a time when millions around the globe have been, and continue to demonstrate, under the rallying cry of Black Lives Matter. Despite the historic critique of the excesses of anti-black police violence in the US1 (and similar racist assaults in other supposedly liberal democracies2) these abuses were viewed as exceptions to a functional democratic process and legitimate social order. They have however become so blatant, f…
Fathering Within Transnational and Mixed-Status Mayan Families
This study explores fathering within a small sample of Mayan transnational and mixed-status families divided between the Northeastern United States and the Quiché region of Guatemala. A positive masculinities framework informs this theoretical thematic analysis of semistructured interviews with 7 migrant fathers and 2 sons-as-fathers who were caring for younger siblings in Guatemala. Analyses sought to illuminate how the performances of fathering…
Critical Reflexivity and Transitional Justice Praxis
“There Are Many Social Evils…and Only We Can Cure It”
This study aimed to investigate how socioeconomically privileged students at a private school in India understood social issues in their communities, and it explored whether their understanding of and discourse about working against social and economic oppression changed after they took a field trip to a nearby under-resourced village. The sample included 75 youth from high-income backgrounds in Bhubaneswar, India, most of whom reported never hav…
Idealists, Opportunists and Activists
Participatory and Action Research Within and Beyond the Academy
This article focuses on some of the epistemological and activist challenges at the center of a participatory and action research teaching‐learning process developed through a student‐initiated graduate seminar at Boston College, a university in the global North. The course includes participation of students and instructors in a 2.5‐day Undoing RacismTM workshop facilitated by the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond ( PISAB ), a New Orleans…
Re-storying violence and its aftermath through film
Exploring/Expanding the Reach of Transitional Justice
Strict justice may well be impossible in any case of gross violence or systemic degradation, yet the question of how best to conceive the measure of justice remains.1 The practice of justice for every society can only emerge through an indigenous process of trial and error, whereby norms and institutions are built, gradually over time, in a process that combines lessons learned from bad experiences as well as benefits gained from good ones. What …
Standing in Between
This article examines how Mayan intermediaries make meaning of their roles in accompanying Mayan women survivors of gross violations of human rights as they search for truth, justice, and reparation in post-genocide Guatemala. Using a constructivist grounded theory approach, the authors analyzed in-depth interviews with six intermediaries who worked with survivors in the context of a seven year feminist participatory and action research project. …
Visual methodologies and participatory action research
Recovery from disaster and displacement involves multiple challenges including accompanying survivors, documenting effects, and rethreading community. This paper demonstrates how African-American and Latina community health promoters and white university-based researchers engaged visual methodologies and participatory action research (photoPAR) as resources in cross-community praxis in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans…
Transitional Justice Processes as Teachable Moments
Carrying a heavy load
Drawing on extensive testimony from Ixil women survivors of sexual violence, the 10 May 2013 verdict in the genocide trial of former de facto Guatemalan head of state and army general Efraín Ríos Montt highlighted the perpetration of sexual violence as an integral component in the attempt to destroy the Maya Ixil as an ethnic group and thus evidence of genocide. Acknowledging that sexual violence was a weapon of genocide in Guatemala contributes …
Authorized and Unauthorized Immigrant Parents
This study explores the social-ecological contexts of unauthorized immigrant families and their U.S.-born children, through examining how otherwise similarly low-income, urban, Latino immigrant families differ on the basis of the parents’ legal status and interactions with the immigration system. Drawing on social-ecological theory, variations based on parents’ legal vulnerability among exosystem-level experiences (e.g., parents’ occupational str…
The artistry of emancipatory practice
The New Deportations Delirium
Since 1996, when the deportation laws were hardened, millions of migrants to the U.S., including many long-term legal permanent residents with “green cards,” have experienced summary arrest, incarceration without bail, transfer to remote detention facilities, and deportation without counsel—a life-time banishment from what is, in many cases, the only country they have ever known. U.S.-based families and communities face the loss of a worker, neig…
Continuities and Discontinuities in Human Rights Violations
Despite recent interest in the psychosocial effects of deportation, psychologists have rarely investigated the multiple forms of violence that compelled many undocumented migrants now living in the United States to “leave home.” This thematic narrative analysis of interviews with four Maya from Guatemala, part of a larger participatory and action research project, particularizes the experiences of Maya in the United States who are frequently subs…
Terror, silencing and children
Guatemalan Indian children and the sociocultural effects of government-sponsored terrorisms
Framing immigration to and deportation from the United States
The United States (US) deportation system and its recent applications have profound implications for the integrity and well-being of immigrant families. Since harsh policies were adopted in 1996, millions of non-citizens, mostly from Mexico and Central America, have been forced to leave the US. Despite the large numbers of people directly threatened by the deportation system, little is known about how it affects Central American immigrant childre…
Possible Contributions of a Psychology of Liberation
This article explores the possible contributions of a psychology of liberation for the practice of health psychology. It explores alternative psychological 'practices', for example participatory action research, with groups historically marginalized from access to power and resources. Selected lenses for crafting a liberatory psychology include: discourse of human rights and mental health; cultural and constructivist psychological theory; and ref…
Narrating Survival and Change in Guatemala and South Africa
Peace accords and international interventions have contributed to the suspension of armed conflict and the censuring of repressive regimes in many parts of the world. Some governments and their opposition parties have agreed to the establishment of commissions or other bodies designed to create historical records of the violations of human rights and foster conditions that facilitate reparatory and reconciliatory processes. This paper explores se…
Bridging Theory and Practice
Evaluating the Feminist Challenge to Research in Personality and Social Psychology
Multiple indices for evaluating the feminist challenge in psychology are identified, and provide a context for discussing selected aspects of research in personality and social psychology that reflect the impact of feminism on psychology. Women's involvement in the research process, the types of research methods used, and substantive concerns were examined in selected issues of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology between 1963 and 198…
Discrimination and Coping in the Lives of Black Women
The present study was designed to explore the multiple effects of institutional discrimination on individuals by examining the distinctive and interactive effects of racial and sexual prejudice and/or institutional discrimination on the coping styles of a small sample of older black women. The existence of the Black Women Oral History Project provided a unique opportunity to examine the perceptions and experiences of discrimination among a set of…
Exploring parent-child communication in the context of threat
This paper explores whether and how documented and undocumented migrant parents communicate with their children about the threats posed by the intensified enforcement of 1996 and 2001 US immigration reforms; whether parents facing potential detention and deportation plan for the care of their children; and whether their children learn from other sources about detention and deportation. The focus of this paper emerged in the context of a multiyear…
Human Rights and Mental Health Among Latin American Women in Situations of State-Sponsored Violence
A Task Force of the American Psychological Association Division 35, Psychology of Women, has been collecting resources that address issues of human rights and mental health among Latin American women living in situations of war and/or state-sponsored violence. This work is being conducted primarily by women's groups, progressive organizations, and individual women in these contexts of institutionalized political violence. This paper describes our…
African American and Latina community health workers engage PhotoPAR as a resource in a post-disaster context
This article reports on participatory action and photo elicitation research conducted by community health workers and university-based researchers in post-Katrina New Orleans between August 2007 and 2010. It documents how 11 African American and Latina women community health workers forged ties and developed a model for responding to some of the personal, familial, and community effects of this "unnatural disaster." We identify and analyze two of…
Who's the Boss? Confronting Whiteness and Power Differences within a Feminist Mentoring Relationship in Participatory Action Research
In this article, we discuss the sometimes problematic and always challenging nature of feminist mentoring, particularly in a participatory action research project aimed at interrogating whiteness. We analyze our relationship by examining the multiple contexts in which it was embedded-power relations within the institution in which the research was conducted, our expectations of one another both during and after the research experience, our comple…
Mayan Women Survivors Speak
1 Truth telling in response to massive violations of human rights is a gendered sociopolitical and cultural construction. It is also inherently relational and necessitates multidimensional engagement between state and civil society. Drawing on two years of feminist participatory action research, this article explores the significance of civil society-initiated truth-telling processes in Guatemala, in particular the 2010 Tribunal of Conscience for…
Authorized and Unauthorized Immigrant Parents
This study explores the social-ecological contexts of unauthorized immigrant families and their U.S.-born children, through examining how otherwise similarly low-income, urban, Latino immigrant families differ on the basis of the parents’ legal status and interactions with the immigration system. Drawing on social-ecological theory, variations based on parents’ legal vulnerability among exosystem-level experiences (e.g., parents’ occupational str…
Continuities and Discontinuities in Human Rights Violations
Despite recent interest in the psychosocial effects of deportation, psychologists have rarely investigated the multiple forms of violence that compelled many undocumented migrants now living in the United States to “leave home.” This thematic narrative analysis of interviews with four Maya from Guatemala, part of a larger participatory and action research project, particularizes the experiences of Maya in the United States who are frequently subs…
Critical Reflexivity and Transitional Justice Praxis
Participatory and Action Research Within and Beyond the Academy
This article focuses on some of the epistemological and activist challenges at the center of a participatory and action research teaching‐learning process developed through a student‐initiated graduate seminar at Boston College, a university in the global North. The course includes participation of students and instructors in a 2.5‐day Undoing RacismTM workshop facilitated by the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond ( PISAB ), a New Orleans…
Standing in Between
This article examines how Mayan intermediaries make meaning of their roles in accompanying Mayan women survivors of gross violations of human rights as they search for truth, justice, and reparation in post-genocide Guatemala. Using a constructivist grounded theory approach, the authors analyzed in-depth interviews with six intermediaries who worked with survivors in the context of a seven year feminist participatory and action research project. …
Methodological Challenges in Participatory Action Research with Undocumented Central American Migrants
An interdisciplinary participatory action research (PAR) project was designed in collaboration with local immigrant organizations to document the impact of deportation policy on Central American immigrant families living in the northeastern U.S. This paper reports on selected methodological challenges of university-based co-researchers in this community-university PAR process which is currently concluding its fourth year. The paper discusses the …
Political Violence, Impunity, and Emotional Climate in Maya Communities
This article explores the effects of political violence and impunity on the emotional climate of Guatemalan Maya communities and the processes that may be drawn upon to improve such climates as revealed by three studies conducted in the 1990s. The first investigated Guatemalan peasants' emotional responses to political and military repression during an ongoing conflict; the second, the effects of participation in judicial processes among a Guatem…
Chasing Rainbow Notions
This paper discusses tensions and contradictions experienced by a group of psychologists in post‐1994 South Africa as we struggled to develop an MA program in community psychology. Situating our work within the history of the subdiscipline and the historical context confronting South Africans in the “wake of apartheid,” we explore models of community psychology that informed praxis under apartheid and contemporary challenges confronting a country…
Carrying a heavy load
Drawing on extensive testimony from Ixil women survivors of sexual violence, the 10 May 2013 verdict in the genocide trial of former de facto Guatemalan head of state and army general Efraín Ríos Montt highlighted the perpetration of sexual violence as an integral component in the attempt to destroy the Maya Ixil as an ethnic group and thus evidence of genocide. Acknowledging that sexual violence was a weapon of genocide in Guatemala contributes …
Reweaving a fragmented self
A grounded theory was developed to describe the processes of self‐understanding of a group of Chinese women graduate students who were studying in the United States at the time of the research. A basic psychological process, reweaving a fragmented self, was identified from interviews with 20 Chinese women graduate students. Reweaving a fragmented self included three sub‐processes: weaving self, fragmenting self and reweaving self, as occurred acr…
I. Whose Meeting at which Crossroads? A Response to Brown and Gilligan
Community research crosses national boundaries
Educated Women's Career Patterns
This paper presents a secondary analysis of selected work and family variables drawn from a longitudinal study of educated American women. In it, we attempt to separate the effects of normative social change, cohort‐specific change, and developmental or life cycle change. Comparisons within and across time indicate that some relations (for example, between marital status and number of children and labor force participation) may shift due to broad…
Discrimination and Coping in the Lives of Black Women
The present study was designed to explore the multiple effects of institutional discrimination on individuals by examining the distinctive and interactive effects of racial and sexual prejudice and/or institutional discrimination on the coping styles of a small sample of older black women. The existence of the Black Women Oral History Project provided a unique opportunity to examine the perceptions and experiences of discrimination among a set of…
Conceptualizing gender in personality theory and research
Gender and individualistic vs. collectivist bases for notions about the self
This article provides a critique of traditional psychological theories of the self that emphasize autonomy, separation, and independence, and ignore the inherently social character of the self Evidence from an empirical investigation of selected experiences of 84 white adult women and men who evidence two different notions of the self (autonomous individualism and social individuality) suggest that the culturally dominant notion of the self, root…
Evaluating the Feminist Challenge to Research in Personality and Social Psychology
Multiple indices for evaluating the feminist challenge in psychology are identified, and provide a context for discussing selected aspects of research in personality and social psychology that reflect the impact of feminism on psychology. Women's involvement in the research process, the types of research methods used, and substantive concerns were examined in selected issues of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology between 1963 and 198…
Field training in community-social psychology
Field training in community-social psychology at the University of Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, combines self-directed learning and a competency-based educational model in a year-long program. This paper describes the development and implementation of this program during its first 2 years. Relationships among different components of the program are discussed, and those between the university, the psychology department, and the community are det…
Human Rights and Mental Health in the United States
During the past 10 years a small but growing number of mental health researchers and practitioners have developed collaborative relationships with Latin American colleagues working in the area of human rights and mental health. Illustrative programs include public opinion surveys to give voice to the victims of government and military repression in El Salvador, and creative workshops for children of the disappeared in Argentina. It has been espec…
Recovering identity”
Guatemalan Indian children and the sociocultural effects of government-sponsored terrorisms
Human Rights and Mental Health Among Latin American Women in Situations of State-Sponsored Violence
A Task Force of the American Psychological Association Division 35, Psychology of Women, has been collecting resources that address issues of human rights and mental health among Latin American women living in situations of war and/or state-sponsored violence. This work is being conducted primarily by women's groups, progressive organizations, and individual women in these contexts of institutionalized political violence. This paper describes our…
Community research crosses national boundaries
I. Whose Meeting at which Crossroads? A Response to Brown and Gilligan
Terror, silencing and children
Cross-cultural and transnational responses to human rights and mental health
Activist Participatory Research Among the Maya of Guatemala
In this article, I analyze two separate experiences with the Maya in rural communities within Guatemala and discuss strengths and limitations of Participatory Action Research (PAR) within this context. These experiences are the context in and from which I explore my “situated otherness” within a praxis of solidarity and question dominant theoretical models for conceptualizing and responding to the effects of war on children. Further, I explore, w…
Ethnic conflict and the psychology of liberation in Guatemala, Peru, and Puerto Rico
Ethnic conflict and the psychology of liberation in Guatemala, Peru, and Puerto Rico
Ethnic identity and conflict in Guatemala, Peru, and Puerto Rico are complexly embedded within dynamic systems of class- and race-based geopolitics. Whereas overt violence and terror have permeated both Guatemalan and Peruvian societies, overt conflict has undermined Puerto Rican nationhood. Despite similarities among these 3 countries of Hispano-America, there are important particularities that inform psychological theory and practice. This arti…
Who's the Boss? Confronting Whiteness and Power Differences within a Feminist Mentoring Relationship in Participatory Action Research
In this article, we discuss the sometimes problematic and always challenging nature of feminist mentoring, particularly in a participatory action research project aimed at interrogating whiteness. We analyze our relationship by examining the multiple contexts in which it was embedded-power relations within the institution in which the research was conducted, our expectations of one another both during and after the research experience, our comple…
Doing psychology at the periphery
As so eloquently presented by Brewster Smith, political psychologists in the United States have made important contributions to psychological theories about war and peace during the last half-century. This article reflects critically on the partialness of a narrative of the discipline told that base and explores the contributions to the discipline from the periphery. A gendered analysis of the dichotomy presumed to underlay most conceptualization…
Possible Contributions of a Psychology of Liberation
This article explores the possible contributions of a psychology of liberation for the practice of health psychology. It explores alternative psychological 'practices', for example participatory action research, with groups historically marginalized from access to power and resources. Selected lenses for crafting a liberatory psychology include: discourse of human rights and mental health; cultural and constructivist psychological theory; and ref…
Bridging Theory and Practice
Narrating Survival and Change in Guatemala and South Africa
Peace accords and international interventions have contributed to the suspension of armed conflict and the censuring of repressive regimes in many parts of the world. Some governments and their opposition parties have agreed to the establishment of commissions or other bodies designed to create historical records of the violations of human rights and foster conditions that facilitate reparatory and reconciliatory processes. This paper explores se…
Chasing Rainbow Notions
This paper discusses tensions and contradictions experienced by a group of psychologists in post‐1994 South Africa as we struggled to develop an MA program in community psychology. Situating our work within the history of the subdiscipline and the historical context confronting South Africans in the “wake of apartheid,” we explore models of community psychology that informed praxis under apartheid and contemporary challenges confronting a country…
Reweaving a fragmented self
A grounded theory was developed to describe the processes of self‐understanding of a group of Chinese women graduate students who were studying in the United States at the time of the research. A basic psychological process, reweaving a fragmented self, was identified from interviews with 20 Chinese women graduate students. Reweaving a fragmented self included three sub‐processes: weaving self, fragmenting self and reweaving self, as occurred acr…
Political Violence, Impunity, and Emotional Climate in Maya Communities
This article explores the effects of political violence and impunity on the emotional climate of Guatemalan Maya communities and the processes that may be drawn upon to improve such climates as revealed by three studies conducted in the 1990s. The first investigated Guatemalan peasants' emotional responses to political and military repression during an ongoing conflict; the second, the effects of participation in judicial processes among a Guatem…
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