Activism in Changing Times: Reinvigorating Community Psychology - Introduction to the Special Thematic Section
Activism in Changing Times: Reinvigorating Community Psychology - Introduction to the Special Thematic Section
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DOI：
10.5964/jspp.v6i2.1111
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发表时间：
2018-01-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Montenegro, Cristian
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作者：
Cornish, Flora;Campbell, Catherine;Montenegro, Cristian
几十年来，社区心理学领域一直关注自下而上的解放努力的理论和实践，以解决健康不平等和其他社会不公正问题，通常假设对平等、宽容和人权的价值观达成共识。然而，最近的全球社会政治转变，特别是新自由主义的个体化和不宽容、排他性政治的兴起，动摇了这些假设，创造了许多人认为对解放行动主义异常敌对的条件。这个特别专题部分汇集了一系列不同的文章，讨论卫生和社会正义活动家如何应对当代状况，以便重新激发社区心理学对解放努力的贡献。当前的文章介绍了我们对这些“变化的时代”的集体概念，它们带来的挑战，以及文章集合提供的四个开口。首先，在新自由主义霸权的背景下，这些文章主张回归社区心理学的核心关系原则。其次，文章确定了破坏性社区代理的新来源，在不墨守成规的群体的抵抗身份，以及新的，技术介导的沟通关系。第三，文章引发了对学者-活动家-社区关系的潜力和紧张关系的批判性反思。第四，总的来说，这些条款激发了一种希望而不是绝望的政治。基于本专题中所代表的活动家和作者的创造力，我们得出结论，新自由主义个人主义和不容忍的环境，而不是使社区心理学过时，有助于重振其对关系的核心承诺，以及大胆而好斗的学者行动主义。
The field of community psychology has for decades concerned itself with the theory and practice of bottom-up emancipatory efforts to tackle health inequalities and other social injustices, often assuming a consensus around values of equality, tolerance and human rights. However, recent global socio-political shifts, particularly the individualisation of neoliberalism and the rise of intolerant, exclusionary politics, have shaken those assumptions, creating what many perceive to be exceptionally hostile conditions for emancipatory activism. This special thematic section brings together a diverse series of articles which address how health and social justice activists are responding to contemporary conditions, in the interest of re-invigorating community psychology's contribution to emancipatory efforts. The current article introduces our collective conceptualisation of these 'changing times', the challenges they pose, and four openings offered by the collection of articles. Firstly, against the backdrop of neoliberal hegemony, these articles argue for a return to community psychology's core principle of relationality. Secondly, articles identify novel sources of disruptive community agency, in the resistant identities of nonconformist groups, and new, technologically-mediated communicative relations. Thirdly, articles prompt a critical reflection on the potentials and tensions of scholar-activist-community relationships. Fourthly, and collectively, the articles inspire a politics of hope rather than of despair. Building on the creativity of the activists and authors represented in this special section, we conclude that the environment of neoliberal individualism and intolerance, rather than rendering community psychology outdated, serves to re-invigorate its core commitment to relationality, and to a bold and combative scholar-activism.