C C Sonn
Biographic Data
| ID | 19473 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C C Sonn |
| GIVEN NAMES | C C |
| FAMILY NAME | Sonn |
| SIGNATURE | SONN C C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6175-1030 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 73 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 423 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 73 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Decolonial qualitative enactments and modes of inquiry: A methodological retrospective
We are not alone in the world”: Creating possibilities for transnational radical relationality, epistemic justice, and expanded ecologies of knowledge through the Indaba podcast
Departing from the premise that contemporary psychological knowledge and praxis are dominated by a philosophy of science privileging an individualistic perspective from predominantly Northern and Western industrialized contexts, this article traces an instance of disrupting such epistemic hegemony through a decolonial lens employing podcasting technologies to nurture and grow relational global connections. We weave together our stories of buildin…
Engaging decolonial approaches to deracialize and humanize migrants
We are continuing to live in unsettling times that demand responses from researchers, scholars and activists to create and mobilise knowledge for liberation, wellbeing, and justice. This commentary draws from my lived experience and research in migration that I use to highlight the rootshock of displacement and the contributions of community psychology to understand these impacts. The commentary invites engagement with the decolonial turn, the ne…
Blak women’s healing: Cocreating decolonial praxis through research yarns
The global development of community psychology as reflected in the American Journal of Community Psychology
This commentary presents a virtual special issue on the global growth of community psychology (CP), particularly, but not exclusively, as reflected in the American Journal of Community Psychology (AJCP) . CP exists in at least 50 countries all over the world, in many of those for over 25 years. Yet, aside from several early Israeli articles, AJCP rarely published work from or about countries outside the US and Canada until the early 2000s, when t…
Community arts for critical community psychology praxis
This chapter describes community arts practice as decolonial aesthetics that can foster cultural strengthening, as well as counter storytelling for transformative witnessing to develop empathy. The first project is a testimonio of the creative work of Wemba Wemba Gundijmara artist Paola Balla who produced “healing cloths” to capture everyday acts of survival as part of the process of documenting matriarchy, resistance and Aboriginal Healing. The …
Country and climate: Journeys toward the decolonial option among non-indigenous climate activists
Climate and environmental activism have long grappled with concerns of First Nations’ land, rights, and sovereignty in the Australian settler-colonial context. However, analyses of environmental campaigns indicate that there are tensions with the realities of decolonial praxis in the intersubjective exchange among Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. We aimed to respond to and work alongside First Nations’ agendas in this space in by making visi…
“In this country you can’t … have like a full tradition …, it’s a little bit of everything”: Dialogs of identity for 1.5 and second generations in Australia
“Don't let anybody ever put you down culturally…. it's not good…”: Creating spaces for Blak women's healing
Research has highlighted the importance of Indigenous knowledge and cultural practice in healing from ongoing histories of trauma, dispossession, and displacement for Indigenous peoples in Australia and elsewhere. Connection with culture, Country, and kinship has been identified as protective factors for Aboriginal social and emotional well‐being and as facilitating cultural healing. This paper draws on stories mediated through cultural practice …
Music Workshops as Social Aesthetic Contributions to Cultivating Community Sensibilities
Human connection and mutual exploration through engagements in the arts, in general, and music, more specifically, have been core features of community life in many settings for millennia. The importance of such modes of collective engagement has also gained renewed interest among psychologists. This article explores the use of arts-based practice in Brazilian organizational settings. Embracing the theoretical perspective of the bricoleur, we ado…
Disability organizations as empowering settings: Challenging stigmatization, promoting emancipation
This study investigated how a local disability organization in Yogyakarta Province, Indonesia, has functioned as an empowering setting for its members. This article discusses, in particular, the context specific features that have enabled members of this organization to resist the pervasive stigmatization commonly imposed upon people with disabilities. The research data was collected through interviews with 18 members of the organization and anal…
Fostering and sustaining transnational solidarities for transformative social change: Advancing community psychology research and action
As we planned this special issue, the world was in the midst of a pandemic, one which brought into sharp focus many of the pre‐existing economic, social, and climate crises, as well as, trends of widening economic and social inequalities. The pandemic also brought to the forefront an epistemic crisis that continues to decentre certain knowledges while maintaining the hegemony of Eurocentric ways of knowing and being. Thus, we set out to explore t…
The Performative is Political: Using Counter‐Storytelling through Theater to Create Spaces for Implicated Witnessing
Performative counter‐storytelling can be a powerful experience for both the artists who create these stories and the audiences who witness them. This study examined audience responses to a counter‐narrative (entitled “AMKA”) performed by Africans in Australia which intended to present more complex, holistic, and strengths‐based representations of their communities than those currently circulated by dominant discourses. Guided by a critical whiten…
What does Theory & Psychology have to offer community-orientated psychologists
Psychology is awash with different understandings and enactments of relations between theory and action. This article explores coverage in Theory & Psychology of such relations from the perspective of four community psychologists who are seeking insights into how to further integrate our theory, research, practice, and teaching activities. We first consider a dedicated special issue on Theory in Action that exemplifies some of the mental gymnasti…
A psychosocial study of guilt and shame in White South African migrants to Australia
Despite recent research interest in migrant psychology, little attention has been paid to the emotional reactions of guilt and shame resulting from migrants' decision to leave their homeland.Universalist theories have yielded to an understanding of emotions as culturally contextualised and interpersonally constituted phenomena.For reasons associated with South Africa's racial history and the social dynamics following the 1994 transition to democr…
Voices of displacement: A Methodology of Sound Portraits Exploring Identity and Belonging
Sound portraiture blends audio-documentary techniques and qualitative arts-based and narrative methods, privileging participants' voices and conveying the complexity of their stories through the layering of sound. We created sound portraits that negotiated the multiple and often conflicting voices, histories and subject positions for South African migrants who psychologically straddle home and host lands. Sound portraits speak to the history of c…
Decolonising Applied Social Psychology: Culture, Indigeneity and Coloniality
Amplifying the Voices of Indigenous Elders through Community Arts and Narrative Inquiry: Stories of Oppression, Psychosocial Suffering, and Survival
In this article, we discuss research undertaken alongside a community arts and cultural development project that sought to support Aboriginal people in Western Australian to create an archive of their stories for current and future generations; stories that could serve as resources for healing, reclamation, and for examining a painful and unjust past. Narrative approaches have been promoted in community psychology to advance empowerment research …
Making a place in Footscray: Everyday multiculturalism, ethnic hubs and segmented geography
In this article, we explore through analyses of interviews the meanings and experiences of everyday multiculturalism in a suburb in Melbourne, Australia. The people we interviewed valued and experienced diversity in different, yet interrelated ways: as an experience of multiculturalism, as providing comfort in diversity and as embodied in ethnic hubs in a segmented geography. Everyday racism can make forging belonging and connections across diver…
Reflections on a Participatory Research Project: Young People of Refugee Background in an Arts-Based Program
In Australia we have been engaged in community research with different groups who have been marginalised or excluded on the basis of race or ethnicity. To date, little research has been undertaken on the role of creative arts programs for refugee background young people. This article will describe a research project exploring how arts-based interventions facilitate well-being and settlement of recently arrived young people of refugee background. …
Acculturation, social exclusion and resistance: Experiences of young Moroccans in Italy
Post-Apartheid South African immigrants in Australia: Negotiating displacement, identity, and belonging
‘I haven’t lost hope of reaching out … ’: Exposing racism in sport by elevating counternarratives
This paper tells the ‘back story’ to the development of a local soccer hub, which focuses on the experiences of a predominantly South Sudanese team called the Western Tigers. We use a counter-story telling approach anchored in critical race theory, to develop a composite story that brings together biographical and autobiographical accounts gathered during an ethnographic study. These accounts are narrated from the vantage point of David, a player…
Strategies of resistance to anti-Islamic representations among Australian Muslim women: An intersectional approach
Contemporary anti-Islamic discourses in Australia construct Islam as an uncivilised belief system and its Muslim followers as homogenous unassimilable Others. Within these discourses, the diversity among Muslim women has been overshadowed, and they are constructed as a monolithic ‘veiled’ woman. Drawing on 20 conversational interviews with veiled and unveiled Australian Muslim women from various cultural backgrounds, this paper explores the diver…
Transnational perspectives on Black subjectivity
In this article, five Black researchers bring their insights into conversation about meanings of blackness in contemporary Australia, Jamaica, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. We critically interrogate blackness transnationally and also within the historical contexts of our work and lived experiences. Situated within critical race studies, we draw on multiple theoretical frameworks that seek to preserve the comp…
(De)colonizing Culture in Community Psychology: Reflections from Critical Social Science
Since its inception, community psychology has been interested in cultural matters relating to issues of diversity and marginalization. However, the field has tended to understand culture as static social markers or as the background for understanding group differences. In this article the authors contend that culture is inseparable from who we are and what we do as social beings. Moreover, culture is continually shaped by socio-historical and pol…
Assessing Sense of Community on adolescents: Validating the brief scale of Sense of Community in adolescents (SOC‐A)
Sense of Community (SoC) is a key theoretical construct in community psychology. This study validated a SoC scale for adolescents (SoC‐A) in Italy. The scale comprises 20 items and five components: satisfaction of needs and opportunities for involvement; support and emotional connection with peers; support and emotional connection in the community; sense of belonging; and opportunities for influence. The sample included 661 Italian high school st…
Beyond education and employment: Exploring youth experiences of their communities, place attachment and reasons for migration
The population in rural areas of Australia has been declining for many decades and it has become common practice to blame this decline on the migration of young people due to structural limitations (e.g. education and employment). This study explores factors associated with migration of youth from rural Victoria looking at their experience of place attachment, community satisfaction, rural culture and migration. Ten participants, four males and s…
Amplifying the Voices of Indigenous Elders through Community Arts and Narrative Inquiry: Stories of Oppression, Psychosocial Suffering, and Survival
In this article, we discuss research undertaken alongside a community arts and cultural development project that sought to support Aboriginal people in Western Australian to create an archive of their stories for current and future generations; stories that could serve as resources for healing, reclamation, and for examining a painful and unjust past. Narrative approaches have been promoted in community psychology to advance empowerment research …
Encounters with the dominant culture: Voices of indigenous students in mainstream higher education
Students from minority and nondominant backgrounds often have negative experiences when dealing with higher education systems. In this study we explored Indigenous student's experiences in mainstream higher education. Interviews were conducted with 34 participants, systematically selected from a listing of 110 past and present students, about their experiences in mainstream higher education. Participants included people who had successfully compl…
The Evolution of Epistemology and Concepts in an Iterative‐Generative Reflective Practice: The Importance of Small Differences
Using a contextualist epistemology, it would be expected that regional differences in community psychology would develop over time. It is argued that the epistemology and theory of Western Australian community psychology, while largely based on North American approaches, has developed its own idiosyncracies. These developed through the integration of practice and theory in an “iterative‐generative” fashion. The process of development is conceptua…
Identity and Oppression: Differential Responses to an In‐Between Status
Oppression operates at various levels, with varying degrees of negativity, and groups respond in markedly different ways. In this paper, the in‐between status of the colored South African group is used to illustrate issues of identity and oppression under the Apartheid system—and differing ways in which oppression was experienced and used. The colored group had many social advantages over Blacks, but were also used to oppress that group. Habituat…
Swampscott in International Context: Expanding Our Ecology of Knowledge
In this paper, I offer reflections as someone from outside the United States about the Swampscott conference. I refer to Fryer and Fox's (The Community Psychologist, 24, 2014, 1) critique of the “Swampscott discourse” and its role in fixing the birthplace of community psychology. While the critique is important, I note the growing references to international community psychology and the need to view the discipline as a product of social political…
Examining discourses of whiteness and the potential for Reconciliation
The aim of this article is to explore how examining discourses of whiteness can contribute to an anti‐racism that does not only focus on those affected by racism, thereby locating the issue with the ‘other’, but also attends to the privilege and dominance that is central to unequal and unfair distributions of power. Based on the discourse analysis (see Henriques, Hollway, Urwin, Venn, & Walkerdine, 1998 ; Parker, 1992 ) of interviews and focus gr…
Sense of community: Issues and considerations from a cross-cultural perspective
Behaviour settings such as work, family, church and community are primary settings in which we participate, they provide us with meaningful roles, relationships, and social identities. In fact, these are settings that provide us with a sense of community (SOC). SOC has been heralded as the guiding value for community research and action. It reflects the integration of people into networks and structures that provide feelings of belonging, identif…
The place and function of power in community psychology: Philosophical and practical issues
Much of the training of psychologists in the western world follows a logical positivist, scientist‐practitioner model based in scientific objectivity and removed from politics. In this paper, we explore issues around alternative understandings of the role and place of psychologists and psychological actions. In so doing, we discuss a number of issues of ontology, epistemology and pragmatics to demonstrate that the role and function of power in ou…
Multiple Senses of Community Among Older Chinese Migrants to New Zealand
Existing literature suggests that successful ageing is linked to a sense of community (SOC) that is developed through shared daily practices. For migrant groups, SOC can extend across home and receiving countries. In order to understand the issue of successful ageing in place and multiple SOCs among older Chinese migrants, this paper investigated 32 older Chinese migrants' narratives of developing a SOC in their local and home communities. Findin…
Exploring the meaning of participation in a community art project: A case study on the Seeming project
In Australia, community art has drawn significant research attention in regard to its potential as a community development strategy. Despite the fact that researchers have presented evidence for the positive developmental outcomes of participation in community art projects, a gap remains in understanding how and why people's participation in a community art project can lead to those positive outcomes. This research explored the meaning of partici…
Developing Praxis: Mobilising Critical Race Theory in Community Cultural Development
Race remains a significant issue in the lives of many people in Australia. For example, Indigenous Australians lives continue to be marked by social and economic disadvantage and everyday experiences of exclusion. Within this context, the Community Arts Network Western Australia promote social change and the empowerment of Indigenous groups through community cultural development. With an emphasis on community strengths and resources, community ar…
Creating inclusive knowledges: Exploring the transformative potential of arts and cultural practice
Arts and cultural practice are gaining attention in numerous disciplines and sectors as a vehicle for community building, and to promote wellbeing and social change. In this article we overview the links between community and liberation psychologies, community arts, and public pedagogy. We put forward the notion of community pedagogies to capture where these areas intersect. The different contributions that make up this special issue are examples…
The role of schools in promoting inclusive communities in contexts of diversity
Against the background of evidence for links between ill-health and prejudice, in this article we discuss how to promote inclusive communities in contexts of diversity. A brief critical overview of dominant psychological approaches to prejudice reduction reveals the apolitical nature of these approaches, and thus, we argue for a more contextual and political model on how to promote inclusive communities. Drawing on examples of different school pr…
Educating for anti‐racism: Producing and reproducing race and power in a university classroom
In this paper I explore some of the issues associated with teaching about race, culture, and ethnicity in a psychology program. These curriculum initiatives are part of a broader agenda of raising awareness about racialised oppression and exclusion and contributing to the development of ways of researching and practicing psychology that are transformative and culturally sensitive. I overview the broader context and describe our subject and the gu…
Psychological sense of community in Australia and the challenges of change
Social change is a phenomenon experienced in all societies, whether from gradual passages and time and interaction with other groups, or through the more immediate impacts such as war, invasion, or physical catastrophe. How societies manage change indicates much about their abilities to survive and the type of social cohesion that will be evidenced. In this article, the authors investigate the use of common symbols and shared history as ways of e…
Strategies of resistance to anti-Islamic representations among Australian Muslim women: An intersectional approach
Contemporary anti-Islamic discourses in Australia construct Islam as an uncivilised belief system and its Muslim followers as homogenous unassimilable Others. Within these discourses, the diversity among Muslim women has been overshadowed, and they are constructed as a monolithic ‘veiled’ woman. Drawing on 20 conversational interviews with veiled and unveiled Australian Muslim women from various cultural backgrounds, this paper explores the diver…
Reflecting on practice: Negotiating challenges to ways of working
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Masculinity, Social Support, and Sense of Community: The Men's Group Experience in Western Australia
Different self-help groups exist to help deal with emotional health issues unique to men. There is, however, a dearth of research on the experiences men have in these groups in Australia. This study aimed to gain an understanding of men's experiences in men's groups in Western Australia. Twelve men were interviewed about their experiences in men's groups using a semi-structured interview schedule developed to explore how the groups facilitate sel…
Community arts as public pedagogy: Disruptions into public memory through Aboriginal counter-storytelling
Community Arts and Cultural Development (CACD) is a form of public pedagogy that seeks to intervene into the reproduction of meaning in public spaces. In this article, we explore the Bush Babies and Elders portrait project that sought to contribute to the empowerment of Aboriginal participants through counter-storytelling. Drawing on interview and survey data collected as part of a larger qualitative study, we examine Aboriginal participant's ref…
Responding to Racialization Through Arts Practice: The Case of Participatory Theater
This article describes two participatory theater projects undertaken by Western Edge Youth Arts in Melbourne and aimed at challenging racialization and fostering belonging among culturally diverse young people. Drawing from interview and archival data, we suggest that participatory theater provided the young people the opportunity to share and reflect on their lived experiences and re-present themselves, as well as gain resources for responding t…
Of narratives and nostalgia
This article provides an introduction to and outlines the rationale for the focus of this special issue, Of Narratives and Nostalgia. It therefore provides a broad description of the Apartheid Archive Project, which had served as the platform for the development of all the articles contained in this special issue. Additionally, it sketches the broad contours of, and interrogates, some of the key theoretical constructs that recur across the articl…
Beyond disciplinary boundaries: Speaking back to critical knowledges, liberation, and community
This article explores critical directions for forging new disciplinary traditions within community psychology, as discussed by a panel at the conclusion of the 6th International Conference on Community Psychology (ICCP 2016). The conference itself was constructed as an enactment of a decolonizing approach, looking at the entire globalized system from the African continent and centring knowledges produced by Africans and the diaspora. Several pane…
Psychological sense of community in a politically constructed group
McMillan and Chavis' (1986) psychological sense of community (PSC) model was used to build a profile of a politically constructed group. Twenty-three people, who were classified as Coloured in South Africa, now residing in Melbourne, Australia were interviewed with an instrument to assess PSC. The data indicated that the model presented two dimensions for this group. The first dimension reflected the externally constructed and imposed definitions…
Psychological sense of community in a politically constructed group
McMillan and Chavis' (1986) psychological sense of community (PSC) model was used to build a profile of a politically constructed group. Twenty-three people, who were classified as Coloured in South Africa, now residing in Melbourne, Australia were interviewed with an instrument to assess PSC. The data indicated that the model presented two dimensions for this group. The first dimension reflected the externally constructed and imposed definitions…
Sense of community: Community resilient responses to oppression and change
Resilience refers to the positive ways in which people respond to adversity and stressful life events. Much of the research and writing in resilience has focused on how children respond to adversity. Community resilience, however, represents an extension of this focus. Often oppressed communities are represented as lacking in resilience and competence. Models that characterize group responses to intergroup and intercultural contact often simplify…
Aspiration to community: Community responses to rejection
While people may belong to multiple psychological communities, each has a primary community which reinforces norms, values, identities, and provides structures and social support systems that are crucial to the well-being of its members. In some situations, people aspire to membership in a community, but are rejected. This paper examines the responses of colored South Africans and Anglo-Indians in their aspirations to membership in European commu…
Sense of community: Issues and considerations from a cross-cultural perspective
Behaviour settings such as work, family, church and community are primary settings in which we participate, they provide us with meaningful roles, relationships, and social identities. In fact, these are settings that provide us with a sense of community (SOC). SOC has been heralded as the guiding value for community research and action. It reflects the integration of people into networks and structures that provide feelings of belonging, identif…
Incorporating indigenous and crosscultural issues into an undergraduate psychology course: Experience at curtin university of technology
There has been a clear expression of the need to incorporate Indigenous and crosscultural issues into psychology curricula and to develop models to guide the process. This paper outlines the process of developing an Indigenous and crosscultural psychology unit at Curtin University of Technology. A conceptual framework that includes foundational, professional, and socially responsive knowledge, which has guided the development and implementation o…
Encounters with the dominant culture: Voices of indigenous students in mainstream higher education
Students from minority and nondominant backgrounds often have negative experiences when dealing with higher education systems. In this study we explored Indigenous student's experiences in mainstream higher education. Interviews were conducted with 34 participants, systematically selected from a listing of 110 past and present students, about their experiences in mainstream higher education. Participants included people who had successfully compl…
Psychological Sense of Community: Theory, Research, and Application
The Evolution of Epistemology and Concepts in an Iterative‐Generative Reflective Practice: The Importance of Small Differences
Using a contextualist epistemology, it would be expected that regional differences in community psychology would develop over time. It is argued that the epistemology and theory of Western Australian community psychology, while largely based on North American approaches, has developed its own idiosyncracies. These developed through the integration of practice and theory in an “iterative‐generative” fashion. The process of development is conceptua…
Psychological sense of community in Australia and the challenges of change
Social change is a phenomenon experienced in all societies, whether from gradual passages and time and interaction with other groups, or through the more immediate impacts such as war, invasion, or physical catastrophe. How societies manage change indicates much about their abilities to survive and the type of social cohesion that will be evidenced. In this article, the authors investigate the use of common symbols and shared history as ways of e…
Masculinity, Social Support, and Sense of Community: The Men's Group Experience in Western Australia
Different self-help groups exist to help deal with emotional health issues unique to men. There is, however, a dearth of research on the experiences men have in these groups in Australia. This study aimed to gain an understanding of men's experiences in men's groups in Western Australia. Twelve men were interviewed about their experiences in men's groups using a semi-structured interview schedule developed to explore how the groups facilitate sel…
Measuring Community Development: Perspectives From Local Government in Western Australia
Local government in Australia has become an important site for discussions about community development and community well being, as increasing numbers of community services are being devolved to this level. Pressures towards greater accountability and demonstration of competitiveness, stemming from the implementation of National Competition Policy have led to attempts to better measure community development activities. In this paper we report on …
Identity and Oppression: Differential Responses to an In‐Between Status
Oppression operates at various levels, with varying degrees of negativity, and groups respond in markedly different ways. In this paper, the in‐between status of the colored South African group is used to illustrate issues of identity and oppression under the Apartheid system—and differing ways in which oppression was experienced and used. The colored group had many social advantages over Blacks, but were also used to oppress that group. Habituat…
Reflecting on practice: Negotiating challenges to ways of working
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Examining discourses of whiteness and the potential for Reconciliation
The aim of this article is to explore how examining discourses of whiteness can contribute to an anti‐racism that does not only focus on those affected by racism, thereby locating the issue with the ‘other’, but also attends to the privilege and dominance that is central to unequal and unfair distributions of power. Based on the discourse analysis (see Henriques, Hollway, Urwin, Venn, & Walkerdine, 1998 ; Parker, 1992 ) of interviews and focus gr…
Critical Psychology Practice: Reflections on the 3rd International Critical Psychology Conference
This is a short commentary on the Third International Critical Psychology conference, which was held at the Howard College Campus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN). The theme of the conference was ‘Beyond the pale – outside the boundaries of the acceptable’
Problematising the discourses of the dominant: Whiteness and reconciliation
This article investigates how unacknowledged power can affect the political actions of those in the dominant group, in this case white Australians. To do this we identify connections between the discourses used by white Australians involved in Reconciliation, the power and privilege of whiteness in Australia, and participants' understandings and actions towards Reconciliation. Using discourse analysis four discourses were identified from intervie…
Disrupting the dynamics of oppression in intercultural research and practice
In this special issue we focus on exploring the tensions, challenges and possibilities for working in contexts where relationships between groups are characterized by dominance and resistance. Some of the impetus lies in our own struggles and frustrations with models, guidelines and ‘recipes’ that have been developed to guide sensitive, competent and empowering research and practice across boundaries of ‘race’, ethnicity and culture. These models…
Beyond education and employment: Exploring youth experiences of their communities, place attachment and reasons for migration
The population in rural areas of Australia has been declining for many decades and it has become common practice to blame this decline on the migration of young people due to structural limitations (e.g. education and employment). This study explores factors associated with migration of youth from rural Victoria looking at their experience of place attachment, community satisfaction, rural culture and migration. Ten participants, four males and s…
Refining the Review of Whiteness: A Reply to Ratele, Stevens, and Steyn
We welcome the responses offered by Ratele (2007), Stevens (2007), and Steyn (2007) to our article reviewing whiteness. The commentaries provide a more nuanced and sensitive analysis of whiteness, particularly in relation to the history and context of South Africa. While whiteness studies is most certainly not the only, or even the most important, tool for understanding and opposing racism, the responses by Ratele (2007), Stevens (2007), and Stey…
Power in community psychology research and practice
While power underpins so much of community psychology, it is not usually the focus of research or practice. Even empowerment approaches lack clear definition of the power against which they are operating. This article introduces a model developed at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, to understand various power dimensions and levels at which it can have impacts. Such a multifaceted model has facilitated the series of articles that follow – r…
The place and function of power in community psychology: Philosophical and practical issues
Much of the training of psychologists in the western world follows a logical positivist, scientist‐practitioner model based in scientific objectivity and removed from politics. In this paper, we explore issues around alternative understandings of the role and place of psychologists and psychological actions. In so doing, we discuss a number of issues of ontology, epistemology and pragmatics to demonstrate that the role and function of power in ou…
Educating for anti‐racism: Producing and reproducing race and power in a university classroom
In this paper I explore some of the issues associated with teaching about race, culture, and ethnicity in a psychology program. These curriculum initiatives are part of a broader agenda of raising awareness about racialised oppression and exclusion and contributing to the development of ways of researching and practicing psychology that are transformative and culturally sensitive. I overview the broader context and describe our subject and the gu…
Psychopolitical validity: Power, culture, and wellness
In this commentary, the authors review and critique Prilleltensky's model of psychopolitical validity and wellness. Although the overt recognition of power, oppression, and political forces are viewed most favorably, cautions are also given. Of most importance is the way in which his model is based in an undeclared North American model of psychology and culture. The authors examine the disjuncture between the stated aims of psychopolitical validi…
Constructing Identity as a Second-Generation Cypriot Turkish in Australia: The Multi-hyphenated Other
This article explores how Cypriot Turkish people in Australia construct their multi-hyphenated identity and the implications this has for their sense of belonging. Ethnic identity is conceptualized as a set of social and cultural understandings, shaped by historical processes, positions of power and patterns of privilege, which people draw on to understand and experience themselves. Ten Cypriot Turkish people’s identities were explored through se…
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