Floretta Boonzaier - Decolonial Feminist Community Psychology

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

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This book was a collaborative effort, emergent from many conversations and engagements with our colleagues, friends, families and students, too many to mention. 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 Tvara.

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 Matutus generous, meticulous and efficient labour as editorial assistant on this project. We would also like to acknowledge the importance 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 dialogue at various conferences around the volumes 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.