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Tuesday, June 07, 2005

critical psychology in South Africa

Here's the introduction to an interesting conference. I like the description, the look at boundaries and including the excluded.
Beyond the pale -"outside the boundaries of the acceptable" - this is a defining feature of Critical Psychology. A psychology of the excluded and marginalised, both those who are socially displaced and those whose work and thought remain unacceptable to mainstream psychology.

Of course the phrase hints at another mischievous meaning: beyond the white world - the overdeveloped West with its intellectual imperialism and monopoly on academic resources. Even Critical Psychology has been guilty of lapsing into elite conversations between those who from a global perspective are in fact highly privileged, narrow in their domestic concerns.......

Read more at http://www.ukzn.ac.za/critpsy/

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