Community Social and Liberation Psychologies: Developments from

Latin America

• Mark Burton

Removed image – Honduran activists and MB

Framework Countries of origin and major development

Critical / Militant Sociology Participatory Action Research

Colombia

Theology of Liberation Argentina, El Salvador, Brazil, Peru

Philosophy of Liberation Argentina, Mexico

Popular Pedagogy Brazil, Chile, Guinea Bissau, US

Community Social Psychology Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Mexico Colombia, El Salvador, Panama, Peru, Dominican Republic, and others

Psychology of Liberation El Salvador, Venezuela, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica and others

Community therapy Brazil

Organisation workshop Brazil, Honduras, Nicaragua

Theatre of the Oppressed / Forum Theatre

Brazil

Revolutionary Psychology / Cultural historical approach

(Soviet Union), Cuba

Liberation Psychology

•Reconstruct psychology from the perspective of the poor, excluded, oppressed, making it serve their interests.•Generate critical consciousness – again through engagement with the oppressed.•De-ideologise reality.•The critique and replacement of individualism – a social psychology.•Power understood in terms of structure rather than solely interpersonal terms – omnipresent.•Methodologically eclectic – •“Realismo crítico” – It shouldn't be theories that define the problems of our situation, but rather the problems that demand, and so to speak, select, their own theorisation.

Community social psychology. Psycho-social work with victims of stateoppression. Social analysis and critique.

Ignacio Martín-Baró – murdered 1989, El Salvador.

Not just community psychology

Contemporary Themes

• What’s at stake?

• Recovery of historical memory.

• State (and other) violence.

• Community Social Psychology.

• Indigenous world views and practices.

• Integration of approaches / integration with social movements

What’s at stake?

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Recovery of historical memory

State (and other) violence

Community Social Psychology

Indigenous world views and practices

Integration with social movements

Integration of approaches

Thank you! ¡Gracias!, Obrigado!

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