Overview
- Contextualizes and critiques psychological theories and practices from a Pan-African perspective
- Focuses on the psychology of liberation, resistance, and restorative justice
- Covers social psychological issues in Africa and the diaspora
Part of the book series: Pan-African Psychologies (PAAFPS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explores the potential of Pan-African thought in contributing to advancing psychological research, theory and practice. Euro/American mainstream psychology has historically served the interests of a dominant western paradigm. Contemporary trends in psychological work have emerged as a direct result of the impact of violent histories of slavery, genocide and colonisation. Hence, this book proposes that psychology, particularly in its social forms, as a discipline centered on the relationship between mind and society, is well-placed to produce the critical knowledge and tools for imagining and promoting a just and equitable world.
Reviews
“This book offers an incisively critical interrogation of the often understated centrality and excesses of psychology as a discipline, practice and technology in the sins of inequality, unequal encounters, conquest, domination, violence and violation; while simultaneously pointing the reader to emergent promising alternative perspectives for the edification of the ideals of pan-Africanism and the elusive quest for an inclusive humanity.”
—Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
“A necessary corrective to the persisting obfuscation of coloniality and scientific racism in mainstream psychology, this book is highly commended for picking up the unresolved questions of psychology and bringing disparate sources together with a view to catalyzing the transforming of a discipline that has proved recalcitrant. Pan-African Psychology in Decolonial Times is rich with possibilities that if pursued, may contribute productively to the myriad challenges of decolonial times.”
—Professor Amina Mama, Kwame Nkrumah Chair: University of Ghana, Institute of African Studies,
Professor in Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies: University of California, Davis. USA.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Shose Kessi is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Cape Town.
Floretta Boonzaier is Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town and co-director of the Hub for Decolonial Feminist Psychologies in Africa.
Babette Stephanie Gekeler is Lecturer at the International Psychoanalytic University of Berlin.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pan-Africanism and Psychology in Decolonial Times
Authors: Shose Kessi, Floretta Boonzaier, Babette Stephanie Gekeler
Series Title: Pan-African Psychologies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89351-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-89350-7Published: 02 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-89353-8Published: 03 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-89351-4Published: 01 January 2022
Series ISSN: 2523-8264
Series E-ISSN: 2523-8272
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 180
Topics: Cross Cultural Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, Self and Identity, African Culture, Development and Post-Colonialism, Gender Studies