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Community Social and Liberation Psychologies: Developments from
Latin America
• Mark Burton
Removed image – Honduran activists and MB
Framework Countries of origin and major development
Critical / Militant Sociology Participatory Action Research
Colombia
Theology of Liberation Argentina, El Salvador, Brazil, Peru
Philosophy of Liberation Argentina, Mexico
Popular Pedagogy Brazil, Chile, Guinea Bissau, US
Community Social Psychology Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Mexico Colombia, El Salvador, Panama, Peru, Dominican Republic, and others
Psychology of Liberation El Salvador, Venezuela, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica and others
Community therapy Brazil
Organisation workshop Brazil, Honduras, Nicaragua
Theatre of the Oppressed / Forum Theatre
Brazil
Revolutionary Psychology / Cultural historical approach
(Soviet Union), Cuba
Liberation Psychology
•Reconstruct psychology from the perspective of the poor, excluded, oppressed, making it serve their interests.•Generate critical consciousness – again through engagement with the oppressed.•De-ideologise reality.•The critique and replacement of individualism – a social psychology.•Power understood in terms of structure rather than solely interpersonal terms – omnipresent.•Methodologically eclectic – •“Realismo crítico” – It shouldn't be theories that define the problems of our situation, but rather the problems that demand, and so to speak, select, their own theorisation.
Community social psychology. Psycho-social work with victims of stateoppression. Social analysis and critique.
Ignacio Martín-Baró – murdered 1989, El Salvador.
Not just community psychology
Contemporary Themes
• What’s at stake?
• Recovery of historical memory.
• State (and other) violence.
• Community Social Psychology.
• Indigenous world views and practices.
• Integration of approaches / integration with social movements
What’s at stake?
Pictures which included activists removed
Recovery of historical memory
State (and other) violence
Community Social Psychology
Indigenous world views and practices
Integration with social movements
Integration of approaches
Thank you! ¡Gracias!, Obrigado!
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