Deanne Bell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3887681 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deanne Bell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Bell |
| SIGNATURE | BELL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nottingham Trent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9133-4927 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Race versus the human
Western colonial control over the world has produced profound psychological consequences for the human. One of its mechanisms of power is the meaning given to race and its enforcement of racialization of the body and self. This study examines the antagonism between race and the human in the modern world from a decolonial point of view. It is driven by the question-how can people, produced as Black, experience ourselves as the humans we are? Follo…
Autoetnografie retrospektywne, czyli dekolonialny Nowy Uniwersytet
Artykuł prezentuje retrospektywną autoetnografię jako metodologię dekolonialnego spojrzenia na neoliberalne warunki w szkołach wyższych. Autoetnografia jest rozumiana jako przestrzeń spotkania tego, co osobiste z tym co polityczne, historyczne i kulturalne. Ma na celu zakwestionowanie codziennych struktur władzy. Autorzy piszą o pragnieniu utopijnej przyszłości, tworząc obraz Nowego Uniwersytetu. Jako osoby, które doświadczyły dorastania w post-k…
Occupy the classroom radically
Around the globe calls are being made to decolonise curricula and the university. Teachers in westernised universities, who are educated and socialised in the Global North, face challenges in recognising where and how western epistemologies and ways of being produce the coloniality of knowledge and the coloniality of being in the classroom. Teachers are also challenged to develop decolonial teaching practices. This paper provides an analysis of h…
Tod Sloan
Retrospective Autoethnographies
In this article, we present "retrospective autoethnographies" as a methodology for decolonial inquiry/intervention in the context of neoliberal settings, specifically the university. Autoethnography represents that epistemic and methodological space where the personal intersects with the political, historical, and cultural to critique everyday power structures. Instead of inserting the autobiographical past into the present, we write of our prese…
The indifferent
This article presents a portrait of indifference, a psychosocial analysis of middle class bystanding of social suffering. It arises as a way to tell a research story of colonially produced racism, classism, and denial. Together, these ways of being produce a mode of perception that denies reality, an active erasure that makes the indifferent apathetic. It is based on research in postcolonial Jamaica, yet some of its features can be recognized els…
A Pedagogical Response to Decoloniality
The neoliberal academy is, at its core, an apparatus through which coloniality sustains itself. Despite the academy's self‐promotion as a catalyzing institution that prepares students to become agents of social change and transformation, some students and faculty experience it as a crucible of oppression. In this essay I trace the beginnings of a project I was a part of in which I worked alongside students who demanded that a psychology program i…
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…
A raison d'être for making a reggae opera as a pedagogical tool for psychic emancipation in (post)colonial Jamaica
Critical participatory action research is a form of community engagement and knowledge generation which, when represented semiotically, may promote social transformation. In this paper, I describe a critical participatory action research project I undertook as a liberation psychologist and researcher in (post)colonial Jamaica. I summarise a narrative psychological portrait of downpressing produced by analysing participant's relationship to state …
Bearing Black
In this essay I critically examine the idea of race in light of the killing of Trayvon Martin, an African-American unarmed teenager, in Florida in February 2012. I utilize ideas from liberation psychology, including psychic colonization, and depth psychology, including cultural complex, to explore the racialized black as a colonized, traumatized other. I also use my autoethnographic experience (as a Jamaican who now lives in the United States) to…
Retrospective Autoethnographies
In this article, we present "retrospective autoethnographies" as a methodology for decolonial inquiry/intervention in the context of neoliberal settings, specifically the university. Autoethnography represents that epistemic and methodological space where the personal intersects with the political, historical, and cultural to critique everyday power structures. Instead of inserting the autobiographical past into the present, we write of our prese…
A Pedagogical Response to Decoloniality
The neoliberal academy is, at its core, an apparatus through which coloniality sustains itself. Despite the academy's self‐promotion as a catalyzing institution that prepares students to become agents of social change and transformation, some students and faculty experience it as a crucible of oppression. In this essay I trace the beginnings of a project I was a part of in which I worked alongside students who demanded that a psychology program i…
A raison d'être for making a reggae opera as a pedagogical tool for psychic emancipation in (post)colonial Jamaica
Critical participatory action research is a form of community engagement and knowledge generation which, when represented semiotically, may promote social transformation. In this paper, I describe a critical participatory action research project I undertook as a liberation psychologist and researcher in (post)colonial Jamaica. I summarise a narrative psychological portrait of downpressing produced by analysing participant's relationship to state …
Occupy the classroom radically
Around the globe calls are being made to decolonise curricula and the university. Teachers in westernised universities, who are educated and socialised in the Global North, face challenges in recognising where and how western epistemologies and ways of being produce the coloniality of knowledge and the coloniality of being in the classroom. Teachers are also challenged to develop decolonial teaching practices. This paper provides an analysis of h…
The indifferent
This article presents a portrait of indifference, a psychosocial analysis of middle class bystanding of social suffering. It arises as a way to tell a research story of colonially produced racism, classism, and denial. Together, these ways of being produce a mode of perception that denies reality, an active erasure that makes the indifferent apathetic. It is based on research in postcolonial Jamaica, yet some of its features can be recognized els…
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…
Bearing Black
In this essay I critically examine the idea of race in light of the killing of Trayvon Martin, an African-American unarmed teenager, in Florida in February 2012. I utilize ideas from liberation psychology, including psychic colonization, and depth psychology, including cultural complex, to explore the racialized black as a colonized, traumatized other. I also use my autoethnographic experience (as a Jamaican who now lives in the United States) to…
A raison d'être for making a reggae opera as a pedagogical tool for psychic emancipation in (post)colonial Jamaica
Critical participatory action research is a form of community engagement and knowledge generation which, when represented semiotically, may promote social transformation. In this paper, I describe a critical participatory action research project I undertook as a liberation psychologist and researcher in (post)colonial Jamaica. I summarise a narrative psychological portrait of downpressing produced by analysing participant's relationship to state …
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…
The indifferent
This article presents a portrait of indifference, a psychosocial analysis of middle class bystanding of social suffering. It arises as a way to tell a research story of colonially produced racism, classism, and denial. Together, these ways of being produce a mode of perception that denies reality, an active erasure that makes the indifferent apathetic. It is based on research in postcolonial Jamaica, yet some of its features can be recognized els…
A Pedagogical Response to Decoloniality
The neoliberal academy is, at its core, an apparatus through which coloniality sustains itself. Despite the academy's self‐promotion as a catalyzing institution that prepares students to become agents of social change and transformation, some students and faculty experience it as a crucible of oppression. In this essay I trace the beginnings of a project I was a part of in which I worked alongside students who demanded that a psychology program i…
Tod Sloan
Retrospective Autoethnographies
In this article, we present "retrospective autoethnographies" as a methodology for decolonial inquiry/intervention in the context of neoliberal settings, specifically the university. Autoethnography represents that epistemic and methodological space where the personal intersects with the political, historical, and cultural to critique everyday power structures. Instead of inserting the autobiographical past into the present, we write of our prese…
Occupy the classroom radically
Around the globe calls are being made to decolonise curricula and the university. Teachers in westernised universities, who are educated and socialised in the Global North, face challenges in recognising where and how western epistemologies and ways of being produce the coloniality of knowledge and the coloniality of being in the classroom. Teachers are also challenged to develop decolonial teaching practices. This paper provides an analysis of h…
Autoetnografie retrospektywne, czyli dekolonialny Nowy Uniwersytet
Artykuł prezentuje retrospektywną autoetnografię jako metodologię dekolonialnego spojrzenia na neoliberalne warunki w szkołach wyższych. Autoetnografia jest rozumiana jako przestrzeń spotkania tego, co osobiste z tym co polityczne, historyczne i kulturalne. Ma na celu zakwestionowanie codziennych struktur władzy. Autorzy piszą o pragnieniu utopijnej przyszłości, tworząc obraz Nowego Uniwersytetu. Jako osoby, które doświadczyły dorastania w post-k…
Race versus the human
Western colonial control over the world has produced profound psychological consequences for the human. One of its mechanisms of power is the meaning given to race and its enforcement of racialization of the body and self. This study examines the antagonism between race and the human in the modern world from a decolonial point of view. It is driven by the question-how can people, produced as Black, experience ourselves as the humans we are? Follo…
Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works)