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Intro -- Foreword -- The Community Psychology Book Series: A Dialogical Decolonising Space -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Part I: Conceptions of Engagement for Community Psychology -- Towards A Decolonial Community Psychology: Derivatives, Disruptions and Disobediences -- A Fundamental Quest for Social Justice -- A Critical Focus on the Marginalised and Oppressed -- Epistemic Disobedience and Transdisciplinarity -- Embracing A Decolonial Aesthetic -- A Critical Assembly of Theoretical, Methodological and Praxical Resources -- Conceptions of Engagement for Community Psychology -- Modes of Enactment and Praxes for Community Psychology -- References -- Liberatory Africa(n)-Centred Community Psychology of Psychosocial Change -- Introduction -- A Note on A Method of Thinking and Writing Together -- How to Situate Africa Within Community Psychology to Re-write the Discipline? -- In What Ways Might Neville Alexander Be Useful in Unearthing Socially Just Africa(n)-Centred Critical Community Psychologies? -- How Can Africa(n)-Centring Psychologists Within Communities Locate the Psychological Within Social Change? -- Concluding Thoughts -- References -- Decolonising Participatory Action Research in Community Psychology -- Introduction -- Decolonial Thinking and the Decolonial Turn -- The Roots of PAR -- The Western Approach -- Perspectives from the Global South -- Decolonising Participation, Action and Research in PAR -- Participation Not Tokenism -- Action-Oriented Transformation -- Research Justice for Decoloniality -- Ten Axioms for a Decolonial PAR Praxis -- Participatory Relational Engagement -- Socio-historical Inquiry -- Interrupting Power -- Critical Reflexivity -- Sovereignty -- Tensegrity as Balance -- Co-constructing Knowledge -- Community Determined Applied Action -- Emancipatory Transformational Praxes.

Collaborations, which bring organizations together in a community to implement or improve an innovative program or change a policy or procedure, have become a central strategy for promoting community change. Funders require them; nonprofits see them as useful solutions to their problems of declining resources and increasing complexity (including multicultural issues); and communities demand them as evidence that key stakeholders are coming together to address problems of mutual concern. Moreover, no matter how powerful the concept, the implementation of community collaborations can usually be improved. The evaluation of collaborations can provide evidence of outcome and impact, and can help improve the process by which the collaboration operates. This book was developed by the nonprofit Human Interaction Research Institute,with funding support from the Federal Center for Mental Health Services, in connection with a series of evaluations of mental health, youth violence prevention and arts grant-making programs (supported by both the Federal government and foundations)-all of which involved collaborations as a central mechanism. It is the first comprehensive treatment of theoretical, research, and practice issues concerning the evaluation of collaborations, and includes an extensive set of forms that can be adapted for this purpose. Chapter authors are leaders in both evaluation and community collaboration work.

Civilizations fail when they become trapped in a way of looking at the world that no longer works. For many, globalization is pushing us to the edge of disaster - an onward march of blinkered vision, encouraging passivity, moral blindness and a culture of dependency.A Community Manifesto is an elegantly written polemic offering a new way of looking at our social, cultural and economic realities. Tackling the crucial dimensions of personal responsibility, consensus and community, it shows how we can find a new language through which we can reinvigorate our individual and social lives, developing the resourcefulness we need but which proves so difficult to cultivate. The vision it presents is persuasive and very timely - only by building community can human society evolve and progress.