Flocking Together: An Indigenous Psychology Theory of Resilience in Southern Africa

• Main Author: Ebersöhn, Liesel (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Community psychology.; Environmental psychology.; Social work.; Educational psychology.; Education-Psychology.; Economic development.; Social change.; Community and Environmental Psychology.; Social Work.; Educational Psychology.; Development and Social Change.

This book describes how those individuals who are often most marginalised in postcolonial societies draw on age-old, non-western knowledge systems to adapt to the hardships characteristic of unequal societies in transformation. It highlights robust indigenous pathways and resilience responses used b...