Akira O'Connor, Erin Robbins

Broschiertes Buch

Colonised Minds

Narratives that Shape Psychology

Beschreibung

Psychology, as it is taught in the Global North, strives to be an objective science beyond reproach but what happens when we examine the discipline critically, through an anti-colonial lens?

This text pulls back the curtain on the existing canon to reveal the historical power structures that shaped the discipline, and examines the extent to which psychology today continues to uphold oppression. Colonised Minds situates current teaching and research of major topics in the field of psychology within the context of colonialism to better understand how some ideas were allowed to flourish while others were suppressed, censored, or left behind. This book will also direct you to critical, antiracist, and feminist approaches for the field and the modern university more generally looking to voices and perspectives that have been marginalised for ways to rethink the way we see, and teach, psychology.

Akira O Connor is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology and the Institutional Race Equality Charter Chair at the University of St Andrews.
Erin Robbins is a Lecturer in Psychology and the Director of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion for the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of St Andrews.

Autor

Akira O'Connor is a Senior Lecturer who received his undergraduate and postgraduate education at the University of Leeds (England). He spent two and a half years working at Washington University in St Louis (USA), before taking up a permanent lecturing position at the University of St Andrews (Scotland). Akira researches memory, memory decision-making, and memory phenomena such as déjà vu. His parents are Irish and Japanese, and he grew up in North-West London-not British, but a mixed-race Londoner. He is a trade union member and serves at the Race Equality Charter Chair at the university, coordinating an institutional bid for a Race Equality Charter award.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd / Sage Publications
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 362g
• ISBN-13: 9781529791792
• ISBN-10: 1529791790
• Artikelnr.: 69640472

Rezensionen

Psychologist new, old, or not a psychologist at all: this book is for you. O Connor and Robbins honestly critique the narratives which shape psychology and thus influence societal understanding of concepts such as race, gender, sex, intelligence, and psychiatric diagnoses. In the academic field of psychology, we are all often lulled into a false sense of superiority; we don t need to read more about this, we know about WEIRD research! However, the authors address issues which we are often blind to, and indeed, how we individually and collectively can do better to understand and do justice to the very subject we study: people. Helena Kobayashi-Wood 20240928