Decolonial Feminist Community Psychology: Centering the Margins

[BOOK REVIEW] Boonzaier, Floretta & van Niekerk, Taryn (eds.) (2019) Decolonial feminist community psychology, 1st edition. Switzerland: Springer.ISBN-10: 3030200000 ISBN-13: 978-3030200008Pages 160   Decolonial feminist community psychology is a recent and emerging form of psychology. As a sub-discipline in the field, community psychology – the applied study of the relationship between social systems and individual well-being in the context of community (Hanlin et al., 2008, p. 524) – dates back only around 50 years. Decolonial Feminist Community Psychology, edited by Floretta Boonzaier and Taryn van Niekerk, takes these efforts one step further by advancing a concerted investigation of the relationship between decolonial and feminist approaches within community psychology. This volume critically engages with and develops feminist and anticolonial voices from the global south as protest against hegemonic and Northern knowledge. The contributors to the book were encouraged to assist the editors in envisioning an emerging decolonial and feminist community psychology. The editors remark that ‘such a form of psychology already exists.’ This statement – that this work is already here and remains ongoing – is amply illustrated throughout the volume

Psychology and Society in Dialogue with Decolonial Feminisms: Perspectives from the global south, Volume 1

In the call for this special issue we, incoming editors of PINS, expressed the desire to build on the fast-growing legacy and genesis of decoloniality through encouraging and amplifying the most marginalised perspectives and approaches within contemporary decolonial trends. There are a range of reasons why this current moment of decoloniality has energetically re-emerged and taken hold in knowledge production and activist efforts globally. Foremost amongst these reasons is the fact that global inequalities that are racialized, gendered, spatial and classed are rising; and past injustices, and historical and collective traumas, are either completely erased or silenced. Calls for decoloniality have taken hold in the context of ongoing racialized, patriarchal, heterosexist and structural violence

The Emerging Regional Citizenship Regime of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations

This article analyses the citizenship regime of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Current literature on ASEAN regionalism has refrained from examining the link between community-building and citizenship building, and the prevailing assumption remains that ASEAN lacks a citizenship regime. This assumption derives from the premises that a regional citizenship regime is the result of the reconfiguration of national citizenship rights and that it is a legally defined status. By deploying the concept of citizenship regime based on the dimensions of rights, access, belonging, and responsibility mix, the article argues that there is an emerging citizenship regime in ASEAN built on citizenship-related policies. This citizenship regime is informal, developing, and atypical - and the unintentional outcome of ASEAN trying to fulfil its agenda on community-building. The analysis contributes to citizenship studies and ASEAN regionalism by offering a nuanced understanding of how citizenship regimes are built through citizenship-related policies and practices