Fostering and sustaining transnational solidarities for transformative social change: Advancing community psychology research and action.

Publisher: Wiley Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 0364535 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1573-2770 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00910562 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Am J Community Psychol Subsets: MEDLINE

Publication: 2016- : Chichester : Wiley
Original Publication: Washington, Winston.

Psychology, Social* ; Social Change*; Humans ; Knowledge ; Pandemics

As we planned this special issue, the world was in the midst of a pandemic, one which brought into sharp focus many of the pre-existing economic, social, and climate crises, as well as, trends of widening economic and social inequalities. The pandemic also brought to the forefront an epistemic crisis that continues to decentre certain knowledges while maintaining the hegemony of Eurocentric ways of knowing and being. Thus, we set out to explore the possibilities that come with widening our ecology of knowledge and approaches to inquiry, including the power of critical reflective praxis and consciousness, and the important practices of repowering marginalised and oppressed groups. In this paper, we highlight scholarship that reflects a breadth of theories, methods, and practices that forge alliances, in and outside the academy, in different solidarity relationships toward liberation and wellbeing. Our desire as co-editors was not to endorse the plurality of solidarities expressed in the papers as an unyielding methodological or conceptual framework, but rather to hold them lightly within thematic spaces as invitations for readers to consider. Through editorial collaboration, we arrived at the following three thematic spaces: (1) ecologies of being and knowledge: Indigenous knowledge, networks, and plurilogues; (2) naming coloniality in context: Histories in the present and a wide lens; (3) relational knowledge practices: Creative joy of knowing beyond disciplines. From these thematic spaces we conclude that through repowering epistemic communities and narratives rooted in truth-telling, a plurality of solidarities are fostered and sustained locally and transnationally. Underpinned by an ethic of care, solidarity relationships are simultaneously unsettling dominant forms of knowledge and embrace ways of knowing and being that advances dignity, community, and nonviolence.
(© 2022 The Authors. American Journal of Community Psychology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for Community Research and Action.)

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Keywords: decolonial; radical imagination; re-empower; solidarities; transnational

Date Created: 20220616 Date Completed: 20220617 Latest Revision: 20220805

20240105

PMC9328190

10.1002/ajcp.12602

35707931