Table Of ContentCommunity Psychology
Floretta Boonzaier
Taryn van Niekerk Editors
Decolonial
Feminist
Community
Psychology
Community Psychology
Series Editors:
Mohamed Seedat
Institute for Social & Health Sciences, University of South Africa,
Ormonde, South Africa
Shahnaaz Suffla
Violence Injury and Peace Research, University South Africa-MRC,
Capetown, South Africa
The Community Psychology book series is envisaged as a space to review the
established assumptions and knowledge economy underlying community
psychology, and encourage writings that recognize the plurality of people and the
many geographical, psychological and sociological locations that they occupy. The
book series will enable contributors to stimulate thought that questions that which
is constructed as critical knowledges, community psychology, and the meanings of
liberation and community. Contributions to the book series draw attention to the
applications of community psychology in the Global South and the Global North
as they relate to such issues as violence, socio-economic inequality, racism, gender,
migration, dispossession, climate change, and disease outbreaks. In do so, it centers
community psychology as focused on the well-being of collectives, and dealing
with such focal issues as deploying psychology to support social justice, the
relevance and appropriateness of its internal logic, and methods that deal with the
range of psychological, social, cultural, economic, political, environmental,
epistemic, and local and global influences that bear on the quality of life of
individuals, communities and society. The book series concentrates thus on the
following three key areas of focus: 1) decoloniality, power and epistemic justice,
2) knowledge production, contestation and community psychology, and 3)
community psychology in context. The series is of vital and immediate relevance
to researchers, practitioners, faculty and students from the intervention sciences,
including anthropology, sociology, public health, development studies, social work
and urban studies
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/15965
Floretta Boonzaier • Taryn van Niekerk
Editors
Decolonial Feminist
Community Psychology
Editors
Floretta Boonzaier Taryn van Niekerk
Hub for Decolonial Feminist Psychologies Hub for Decolonial Feminist Psychologies
in Africa in Africa
Department of Psychology Department of Psychology
University of Cape Town University of Cape Town
Rondebosch, South Africa Rondebosch, South Africa
ISSN 2523-7241 ISSN 2523-725X (electronic)
Community Psychology
ISBN 978-3-030-20000-8 ISBN 978-3-030-20001-5 (eBook)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20001-5
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Acknowledgements
This book was a collaborative effort, emergent from many conversations and
engagements with our colleagues, friends, families and students, too many to men-
tion. We thank you all. We would like to acknowledge all the contributors to this
volume: Lutfiye Ali, Malvern Tatenda Chiweshe, Josephine Cornell, Brittany
Everitt-Penhale, Shose Kessi, Peace Kiguwa, Catriona Macleod, Nick Malherbe,
Haile Matutu, Jabulile Mary-Jane Jace Mavuso, Linda Mkhize, Puleng Segalo,
Tamara Shefer, Shahnaaz Suffla, and Gabriela Távara.
We extend our special thanks to the series editors, Mohamed Seedat and Shahnaaz
Suffla, who provided the encouragement, enthusiasm and support for this work. We
are deeply appreciative of Haile Matutu’s generous, meticulous and efficient labour
as editorial assistant on this project. We would also like to acknowledge the impor-
tance of our engagements in the Hub for Decolonial Feminist Psychologies in the
Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town, especially to our friend
and colleague, Shose Kessi, who is the co-director of the Hub.
We acknowledge the National Research Foundation (NRF) and the Mellon
Foundation that provided us the financial support to travel, share and cultivate dia-
logue at various conferences around the volume’s thematic focus. We also thank the
University of Cape Town for the institutional support for the work.
A final and very special thanks go to Sean Daniels, Luke Daniels, Liam Daniels
and Bjorn Christ for their love and support.
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Contents
Introducing Decolonial Feminist Community Psychology . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Floretta Boonzaier and Taryn van Niekerk
Overcoming Essentialism in Community Psychology: The Use of a
Narrative- Discursive Approach Within African Feminisms . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Jabulile Mary-Jane Jace Mavuso, Malvern Tatenda Chiweshe, and
Catriona Ida Macleod
Engaging and Contesting Hegemonic Discourses Through Feminist
Participatory Action Research in Peru: Towards a Feminist
Decolonial Praxis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Gabriela Távara
The Life History Approach as a Decolonial Feminist Method?
Contextualising Intimate Partner Violence in South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Taryn van Niekerk and Floretta Boonzaier
Envisioning Photovoice as Decolonial Feminist Praxis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Josephine Cornell, Linda Mkhize, and Shose Kessi
Engaging Praxes for Decolonial Feminist Community Psychologies
Through Youth- Centred Participatory Film-Making . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Nick Malherbe, Shahnaaz Suffla, and Brittany Everitt-Penhale
Australian Muslim Women’s Borderlands Identities: A Feminist,
Decolonial Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Lütfiye Ali
“On the Way to Calvary, I Lost My Way”: Navigating Ethical
Quagmires in Community Psychology at the Margins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Haile Matutu
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From Where We Stand: Reflecting On Engagements With Decolonial
Feminist Community Psychology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Peace Kiguwa and Puleng Segalo
Performative Activism and Activist Performance: Young
People Engaging in Decolonial Feminist Community Psychology
in Contemporary South African Contexts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Tamara Shefer
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Contributors
Lütfiye Ali Digital Ethnography Research Centre RMIT University, Melbourne,
VIC, Australia
Floretta Boonzaier Hub for Decolonial Feminist Psychologies in Africa,
Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa
Malvern Tatenda Chiweshe Rhodes University and London School of Economics,
Harare, Zimbabwe
Josephine Cornell Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town,
Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa
South African Medical Research Council-University of South Africa Violence,
Injury and Peace Research Unit, Cape Town, South Africa
Institute for Social & Health Sciences, University of South Africa, Johannesburg,
South Africa
Brittany Everitt-Penhale University of South Africa, Institute for Social and
Health Sciences, Lenasia, Johannesburg, South Africa
South African Medical Research Council, University of South Africa Violence,
Injury and Peace Research Unit, Tygerberg, Cape Town, South Africa
Shose Kessi Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch,
Cape Town, South Africa
Peace Kiguwa Department of Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, South Africa
Catriona Ida Macleod Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Nick Malherbe University of South Africa, Institute for Social and Health
Sciences, Lenasia, Johannesburg, South Africa
South African Medical Research Council, University of South Africa Violence,
Injury and Peace Research Unit, Tygerberg, Cape Town, South Africa
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