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  title info:
    title: Emancipatory and Participatory Methodologies in Peace, Critical, and Community Psychology
  name:
    name part: Seedat, Mohamed.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Suffla, Shahnaaz.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Christie, Daniel J.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 206 p. 7 illus., 6 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Offering a unique set of case studies that invites readers to question and reimagine the concept of community engagement, this collected work provides an overview and analysis of numerous, creative participatory research methods designed to improve well-being at both the individual and societal level. In a world where there are enormous differences in the wealth and health of people, it is increasingly recognized that sustainable peace requires both a broad--‐based public commitment to nonviolence combined with noticeable increments in the wellbeing of people who occupy the lowest socioeconomic strata of societies. This volume focuses on the latter-how to use qualitative research methods to improve well-being of research participants, and thus, the wider society. The participatory research examples described in these chapters are meant to encourage researchers, scholars, and practitioners to question assumed knowledge about community engagement research and practice, and to inspire social justice-oriented scholarship. The cases studies and methods portrayed are as varied as the situations and cultures in which they take place. In most of the case studies, the personal is linked to the political with a social justice imperative as participants from marginalized communities express an understanding of their own position within power hierarchies, deconstruct power relations, and experience a sense of agency. In other instances, the methods are no less participatory but the aim is more focused on inner and outer harmony, psychological wellbeing, conflict resolution and intergroup reconciliation. In all the cases studies, there is a strong emphasis on methods in which community members are at the center of efforts to promote social change. The methods described include group storytelling, community arts, asset mapping, dialogues, creative writing, embroidery, filmmaking, Photovoice, “writing back” to power, and other means of engaging in emancipatory praxis and promoting…
  note: edited by Mohamed Seedat, Shahnaaz Suffla, Daniel J. Christie.
  subject:
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Social justice
  subject:
    topic: Human rights
  subject:
    topic: Personality
  subject:
    topic: Social psychology
  subject:
    topic: Community psychology
  subject:
    topic: Environmental psychology
  subject:
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Community and Environmental Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Personality and Social Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights
  classification: RA790.55
  classification: BF353
  classification: 155.9
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Peace Psychology Book Series
  identifier: 9783319634890
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63489-0
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    record creation date: 171017
    record change date: 20171017212749.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-63489-0