A critical exploration of historical power structures and forces of oppression that shaped the field of psychology, and a compelling call to move towards the decolonisation of the discipline in today's university.
A critical exploration of historical power structures and forces of oppression that shaped the field of psychology, and a compelling call to move towards the decolonisation of the discipline in today's university.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction: The Canon and Systems of Thought 2. The Eugenics Problem: The Rotten Ideals Underpinning Today's Statistical Tests 3. The Identification of the 'Feeble-Minded': How Psychological Testing and Segregation Go Hand-In-Hand 4. Mental Illness and Marginalisation: Psychiatric Diagnosis as an Untrustworthy Lever of Power 5. Phrenology, Neuroimaging, and the Technologies That Shape Our Understanding of the Mind 6. Hysteria, Happy Pills, and Hormones: Psychology's Woman Problem 7. I Don't See Colour: Psychology's Race Problem 8. De-WEIRDING Research: A Stepping Stone to a Better Psychology? 9. #NotAllUniversities: How Higher Education Perpetuates the Inequities it Claims to Eliminate 10. Conclusion
1. Introduction: The Canon and Systems of Thought 2. The Eugenics Problem: The Rotten Ideals Underpinning Today's Statistical Tests 3. The Identification of the 'Feeble-Minded': How Psychological Testing and Segregation Go Hand-In-Hand 4. Mental Illness and Marginalisation: Psychiatric Diagnosis as an Untrustworthy Lever of Power 5. Phrenology, Neuroimaging, and the Technologies That Shape Our Understanding of the Mind 6. Hysteria, Happy Pills, and Hormones: Psychology's Woman Problem 7. I Don't See Colour: Psychology's Race Problem 8. De-WEIRDING Research: A Stepping Stone to a Better Psychology? 9. #NotAllUniversities: How Higher Education Perpetuates the Inequities it Claims to Eliminate 10. Conclusion
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