This ground-breaking and innovative textbook offers a uniquely global approach to the study of social psychology. Inclusive and outward-looking, the authors consciously re-orientate the discipline of social psychology, promoting a collectivist approach. Each chapter begins with an illustrative scenario based on everyday events, from visiting a local health centre to shopping in a supermarket, which challenges readers to confront the issues that arise in today's diverse, multicultural socie...

This collection offers a unique exploration of critical racial literacy and anti-racist praxis in Australia's educational landscape. Combining critical race and Indigenous theories and perspectives, contributors articulate a decolonial liberatory imperative for our times. In an age when 'decolonization' has become a buzzword, the book demystifies 'critical anti-racism praxis,' advocating for critical and multidisciplinary approaches.Educators from a range of disciplines including L...

Seit vielen Jahrhunderten befindet sich das interstellare Imperium der Menschheit im Krieg. Die außerirdische Zivilisation der Cielcin hört nicht auf, Grenzwelten zu überfallen und auszuplündern. Hadrian Marlowe, ein verstoßener Adliger und Abenteurer, ist nun am Hof des Imperators angekommen – und muss sich gefährlicher Ränkespiele und tödlicher Anschläge erwehren. Doch dann erfährt er, dass die Cielcin einen neuen Herrscher haben, und Hadrian wittert seine Chance, den Feind endgültig zu ...

This cutting-edge book re-imagines what a truly decolonial psychology could look like. It explores questions of what counts as psychological knowledge and whose knowledge is valid, and who controls the production of knowledge in psychology. This book builds on the expanding knowledge base in decolonial psychology to meaningfully address the varied social and psychological trajectories of decolonization and liberation.Featuring a wide range of international contributors, this book i...

This handbook offers refined interpretations of decolonial thought, methodologies, and practices in community psychology. As a representative mapping of the broad range of decolonial cosmovisions, experiences, and praxes in community psychology and allied disciplines around the globe, it brings together contributions from North America, Latin America, Europe, Oceania, Africa, and Asia. It offers an overview of community psychology with a decolonial focus and from a transnational perspectiv...

Bei einem Malkurs lernt Bob den sympathischen und begabten Denzel Hopkins kennen. Der Mann wird plötzlich beschuldigt, ein wertvolles Gemälde gestohlen zu haben. Denzel beteuert, das Bild noch nie gesehen zu haben und unschuldig zu sein. Wie konnte er dann bereits in der Vergangenheit immer wieder ein zentrales Motiv aus diesem Bild malen, die schwarze Sonne? Die drei ??? müssen ihren gesamten detektivischen Spürsinn aufbieten, um diesen Fall zu lösen.

There has been a growing interest in the role of arts and cultural practice in tackling perennial forms of social exclusion, marginalization, and oppression. Researchers and educators from different disciplines have been collaborating with community-based agencies and community groups to forge new ways to challenge these forms of exclusion. This volume discusses how various social actors, work in interdisciplinary and cross-institutional ways to push an agenda that privileges those individ...

Was geschah damals wirklich in Tante Eleanors geheimnisvoller Bibliothek? Freds Mutter glaubt, Tante Eleanor sei nicht ganz richtig im Kopf. Freds Vater gibt immerhin zu, dass in der alten Bibliothek "Dinge" passieren. Und Fred? Er muss das Geheimnis unbedingt lüften! Also fliegt er zusammen mit seinem Vater zu Tante Eleanor nach Ägypten. Tagsüber erforschen sie dort die Ruinen der Stadt Achet-Aton, die Pharao Echnaton für sich und seine schöne Gemahlin Nofretete in den Wüstensand baute. U...

Segeln mit Humor: Geschichten aus dem Logbuch eines CharterskippersEine Seefahrt, die ist lustig – und wer jahrelang im Chartergeschäft tätig ist, weiß viel zu erzählen. Tausende Touristen buchen jährlich eine Charterreise und sorgen bei ihren Gastgebern oft genug für Schmunzeln, Staunen und verzweifeltes Haareraufen.In "Könnt ihr mal das Segel aus der Sonne nehmen" erzählt Autor und Segelredakteur Johannes Erdmann vom schmalen Grat zwischen Skipperdasein und Animateurskunst....

This book examines the ways in which decolonial theory has gained traction and influenced knowledge production, praxis and epistemic justice in various contemporary iterations of community psychology across the globe. With a notable Southern focus (although not exclusively so), the volume critically interrogates the biases in Western modernist thought in relation to community psychology, and to illuminate and consolidate current epistemic alternatives that contribute to the possibilities o...

In this book, the authors have explored a series of different types of communities - moving from the basic idea of those based at a specific location all the way to virtual communities of the internet. The ways in which the communities operate, positively and negatively, what people get out of them and what they have to put into them, and the notion of being members of more than one community at the one time are considered.Sense of community is a topic that captures the attention o...

Since the mid-1980s, the psychology of liberation movement has been a catalyst for collective and individual change in communities throughout Latin America, and beyond; and recent political developments are making its powerful, transformative ideas more relevant than ever before. Psychology of Liberation: Theory and Applications updates the activist frameworks developed by Ignacio Martin-Baro and Paulo Freire with compelling stories from the frontlines of conflict in the developing and dev...