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This article engages with key contemporary questions about the extent to which
the obstinacy of racial formation processes, as well as the apparent global
resurgence of raced thinking, represent a paralysis of the global anti-racist
project or signal an important analytic opportunity for revitalising critical
race scholarship and anti-racist praxis. To this end, it is incumbent upon
critical race scholars and practitioners to take stock of their historical,
current and future contributions to addressing the vexing nature of race and
racism. The article mobilises three main illustrative arguments in this regard.
First, we have to deploy our analytic tools more thoughtfully and robustly in
the service of understanding the current historical period in which race seems
to have an infinite elasticity globally as such analyses have a great deal to
offer us in thinking through the contemporary relationships between race,
materiality, histories, politics and populism. Second, writing from South
Africa, the article focuses on the historically racialised nature of the social
formation as an exemplar of how the deployment of race and resistance to it did
not simply reflect an unprocessed repetition compulsion of the raced binary over
time but actually represented incremental gains for a productively antagonistic
and adversarial anti-racist political project. Third, the article also surfaces
alternative ways of approaching the question of race today, by examining
elements of the post-race paradigm, raced embodiment and affectivity, and more
diverse conceptions of what it means to be human as part of the anti-racist
project. The article concludes that thoughtful analyses of the histories of
anti-racist praxis, contemporary manifestations of race and racism, and an
openness to new approaches to addressing the histories and continued legacies of
race are paradoxically promising and hopeful in a seemingly despairing time when
race thinking seems to be on the ascension once more.

Discusses work of the University of South Africa's (UNISA) Institute for Social and Health Sciences in combining social science and health science research on violence prevention; since 1997.

This study examined how men accounted for their violent behaviours against their intimate female partners. In-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with 12 men from three men's groups in Johannesburg, South Africa. All the men self-reported that they had committed acts of intimate partner violence previously, and the majority were from low-income, township settings. Dissociations, justifications and confessions featured as the predominant accounting forms that worked to transform participants' subject positions from the 'violent abuser' to the 'legitimately violent partner' and even to the 'changed man'. Attention is accorded to how gender ideologies and heteropatriarchal discourses legitimating male violence against women were reinforced, yet were at times challenged within their talk and through rhetorical devices. In line with a poststructuralist reading, the study highlights the complexities underpinning men's varied meanings of violence. On the one hand, it reveals the agentic shifting of identities. On the other, it highlights the social discourses that are embedded in men's talk and therefore inscribed into male subjectivities.

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?.

Race, Memory and the Apartheid Archive: Towards a Transformative Psychosocial Praxis draws on a psychosocial approach that is uniquely suited to the socio-historical and psychical analysis of racism. The book relies mainly on the memories, stories and narratives of ordinary people living in apartheid South Africa