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Intro -- Series Foreword The Community Psychology Book Series: A Dialogical Decolonizing Space -- Prologue Decolonial Psychology as a Counter-Catastrophic Science -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Contributors -- Tracking the Decolonial Turn in Contemporary Community Psychology: Expanding Socially Just Knowledge Archives, Ways of Being and Modes of Praxis -- Decoloniality as Paradigmatic -- The Centrality of Epistemic Justice in Decoloniality -- A Moment of Social Reckoning and Transformation? -- Psychology's Decolonial Turn -- Centre, Periphery and the Elasticity of Coloniality -- Praxis Co-ordinates for Decoloniality, Knowledge Production and Epistemic Justice -- Archival Reclamation and Expansion for Onto-Epistemic Disruption -- Knowledge from Below, Centring Voices/Subjects from the Margins, and Epistemic Justice -- Critical Mutual Accompaniment, Intersectional Identities, and Dialogical Ethics -- Conclusion -- References -- Africa's Knowledge Archives, Black Consciousness and Reimagining Community Psychology -- African Archives: Representations, Rupture and Retrieval -- Black Consciousness as an Insurgent Archive in Community Psychology -- Conclusion -- References -- An Orienting Conversation on Africa(n)-Centred Decolonial Community Psychologies -- What Kind of Knowledge Device is Conversation, and is it Really a Meaningful Way of Creating Knowledge? -- What is "The Thing" to Which we Wish to Turn in our Conversation? -- Why is there Still Epistemological Domination Decades After the So-Called Classic Era of Colonisation? -- What Can Decolonial Africa(n)-Centring Community Psychologies Do to Resist Dominant Euro-American Models of Community Psychology? -- How Might we Create Space for Decolonial Africa(n)-Centredness in Community Psychologies?.

Since the mid-1980s, the psychology of liberation movement has been a catalyst for collective and individual change in communities throughout Latin America, and beyond, and recent political developments are making its powerful, transformative ideas more relevant than ever before. Psychology of Liberation: Theory and Applications updates the activist frameworks developed by Ignacio Martin-Baro and Paulo Freire with compelling stories from the frontlines of conflict in the developing and developed worlds, as social science and psychological practice are allied with struggles for peace, justice, and equality. In these chapters, liberation is presented as both an ongoing process and a core dimension of wellbeing, entailing the reconstruction of social identity and the transformation of all parties involved, both oppressed and oppressors. It also expands the social consciousness of professionals, bringing more profound meaning to practice and enhancing related areas such as peace psychology, as shown in articles such as these:Philippines: the role of liberation movements in the transition to democracy.Venezuela: liberation psychology as a therapeutic intervention with street youth.South Africa: the movement for representational knowledge.Muslim world: religion, the state, and the gendering of human rights.Ireland: linking personal and political development.Australia: addressing issues of racism, identity, and immigration.Colombia: building cultures of peace from the devastation of war.Psychology of Liberation demonstrates the commitment to overcome social injustices and oppression. The book is a critical resource for social and community psychologists as well as policy analysts. It can also be used as a text for graduate courses in psychology, sociology, social work an

Different self-help groups exist to help deal with emotional health issues unique to men. There is, however, a dearth of research on the experiences men have in these groups in Australia. This study aimed to gain an understanding of men's experiences in men's groups in Western Australia. Twelve men were interviewed about their experiences in men's groups using a semi-structured interview schedule developed to explore how the groups facilitate self-understanding and personal change. Thematic analysis of the data showed that symbols, rituals, and group rules played a role in providing a safe environment for identity change and the groups provided strong emotional support. Analyses also revealed a process of personal change and identity transformation that takes place because of involvement in the men's groups. Implications of the findings are discussed with reference to strategies for change such as community-based education and discussion forums for men.

Sound portraiture blends audio-documentary techniques and qualitative arts-based and narrative methods, privileging participants' voices and conveying the complexity of their stories through the layering of sound. We created sound portraits that negotiated the multiple and often conflicting voices, histories and subject positions for South African migrants who psychologically straddle home and host lands. Sound portraits speak to the history of colonialism, Apartheid, displacement, and the continuities of power and privilege in people's lives. We argue for the use of sound portraits as an aesthetic representation of lived experience and as a medium through which research knowledge becomes democratised.