Oral History as an Enactment of Critical Community Psychology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11042171 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mohamed Seedat (0000-0001-9018-3370, Institute for Social and Health Sciences University of South Africa and Medical Research Council‐University of South Africa Violence, Injury and Peace Research Unit, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 22-35 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Community Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-4392 • E-ISSN: 1520-6629 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/jcop.21690 |
| OpenAlex | W1837086154 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 25 |
I describe an oral history project as an enactment of critical community psychology that was triggered by an academic and social impulse, stirred by a South African liberatory moment that legitimated recovery of marginalized voices and community knowledge as part of a process of affirming community self‐identity. Oral history was positioned as a performance, a collection of historical materials, a transformative force linking the past to the present to interpret social conditions, and a generative modality for establishing community, evidence of the implicit shaping influences of Black Consciousness on enactments of psychosocial praxis at a particular South African moment. The description briefly draws attention to ambiguities arising from oppressive psychosocial scripts and the repressive authority of disciplinary power on the enactments of oral history, so as to offer a critical voice to forthcoming dialogues about how to place project materials, collected two decades ago, within the public realm
Aesthetics · Consciousness · Critical consciousness · Discipline · Identity (music) · Oral history · Pedagogy · Political science · Power (physics) · Praxis · Psychosocial · Psychotherapist · Realm · Social science · Sociology · Transformative learning · Anthropology · Community Health and Development · Gender Studies · Law · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.83 |
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| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |