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A critical psychology of the postcolonial

Hook, Derek (2005) A critical psychology of the postcolonial. Theory and Psychology, 15 (4). pp. 475-503. ISSN 0959-3543

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Abstract

Of the theoretical resources typically taken as the underlying foundations of critical social psychology, elements, typically, each of Marxism, feminism, psychoanalysis, and Post-Structuralism, one particular mode of critique remains notably absent: postcolonial theory. What might be the most crucial contributions that postcolonial critique can make to the project of critical psychology? One answer is that of a reciprocal forms of critique, the retrieval of a ‘psychopolitics’ in which we not only place the psychological within the register of the political, but - perhaps more challengingly - in which the political is also, strategically, approached through the register of the psychological. What the writings of Fanon and Biko make plain in this connection is the degree to which the narratives and concepts of the social psychological may be reformulated so as to fashion a novel discourse of resistance, one that opens up new avenues for critique for critical psychology, on one hand, and that affords an innovative set of opportunities for the psychological investigation of the vicissitudes of the postcolonial, on the other

Item Type: Article
Official URL: http://tap.sagepub.com/
Additional Information: © 2005 SAGE Publications
Divisions: Psychological and Behavioural Science
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Date Deposited: 26 Apr 2007
Last Modified: 22 Feb 2024 21:33
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/950

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