Record Identifier: | 275593 |
Title: | For an anti-capitalist psychology of community / |
Authorstatement: | Malherbe, Nick, ; author ; |
Date of Publish: | 2022 |
Publisher: | Springer |
ISBN: | 9783030996963 ; (electronic bk.) ; |
ISBN: | 3030996964 ; (electronic bk.) ; |
ISBN: | 9783030996956 ; (print) ; |
ISBN: | 3030996956 ; |
Subject: | Community psychology. ; |
LC classes: | RA790.55 ; |
Dewey Classes: | 155.9/2 ; 23/eng/20220427 ; |
Anti-capitalist political struggle is a site of struggling psychologies. Conscious political action is never far from unconscious desire, and the fight for material justice is always also the fight for dignity and psychological well-being. Yet, how might community psychologists conceive of their discipline in a way that opposes the very capitalist political economy that, historically, most of the psy-disciplines have bolstered in return for disciplinary legitimacy? In its consideration of an anti-capitalist psychology of community, this book does not ignore or try to resolve the contradictory position of such a psychology. Instead, it draws on these contradictions to enliven psychology to the shifting demands - both creative and destructive - of a community-centred anti-capitalism. Using practical examples, the book deals with the psychological components of building community-centred social movements that challenge neoliberal capitalism as a political system, an ideology, and a mode of governing rationality. The book also offers several theoretical contributions that grapple with how an anti-capitalist psychology of community can remain attentive to the psychological elements of anti-capitalist struggle; what the psychological can tell us about anti-capitalist politics; and how these politics can shape the psychological ;