Emancipatory and Participatory Methodologies in Peace, Critical, and Community Psychology

Mohamed Seedat is a community-centred intervention development and violence prevention researcher. He is a vision-making and strategic development facilitator and life-oriented academic coach, mentor and post-graduate student supervisor. With a background in liberatory and critical community psychology, public health and trans-disciplinary thought, he writes in areas of community engagement, social connectivity, injury prevention and intellectual traditions in science. He is currently leading in a multi-country study on safety, peace and health promotion and the establishment of safety demonstration sites across various African countries. Mohamed is also conducting work on the making of communities and the determinants of safety and peace. Shahnaaz Suffla is trained as a clinical psychologist, and is a senior scientist within the Medical Research Council-University of South Africa, Safety and Peace Promotion Research Unit. Her research interests include issues relatedto gender, peace, conflict, and violence and injury prevention. Her work draws largely from community and peace psychology, as well as from the public health perspective. She has been involved in the training of post-graduate psychology students for a number of years, and remains actively engaged in organised psychology in South Africa. Daniel Christie is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at The Ohio State University and Fulbright Specialist in Peace and Conflict Studies. He is co-editor of Peace, Conflict, and Violence: Peace Psychology for the 21st Century (2001), and series editor of The Peace Psychology Book Series. Christie has worked to define, advance, and position peace psychology as a foundational discipline for programs in peace and conflict studies around the world, and has served as President of the Peace Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association.

• Chapter 1. Pluriversal Readings of Emancipatory Engagements by Mohamed Seedat, Shahnaaz Suffla and Daniel J. Christie.- Chapter 2. The Potential of Creative Life Writing as a Liberatory Practice by Sindi F. Gordon.- Chapter 3. Writing as an Engaged Method of Resistance and Liberation by David Fryer.- Chapter 4. Community Radio as a Vehicle for Social Change in Conflict-Affected Settings by Yeshim Iqbal and Rezarta Bilali.- Chapter 5. Community Asset Mapping as a Critical Participatory Research Method by Sandy Lazarus, Naiema Taliep and Anthony V. Naidoo.- Chapter 6. Participatory Knowledge Co-Creation: Using Digital Mapping as an Emancipatory Method by Siew Fang Law and Jose Ramos.- Chapter 7. Harnessing the Power of Ecopsychology in Community Work by Anthony V. Naidoo, Conrad Zygmont and Shaun Philips.- Chapter 8. Creative Responses to Social Suffering: Using Community Arts and Cultural Development to Foster Hope by Christopher C. Sonn, Pilar Kasat and Amy F. Quayle.- Chapter 9. Threading Life Stories: Embroidery as an Engaged Method by Puleng Segalo and Michelle Fine.- Chapter 10. Community Psychology’s Gaze by Deanne Bell.- Chapter 11. Exploring Participant-Led Film-Making as a Community-Engaged Method by Nick Malherbe and Brittany Everitt-Penhale.- Chapter 12. Catalysing Transformation through Stories: Building Peace in Recognition, Struggle and Dialogue by Ursula Lau, Shahnaaz Suffla and Lesego Bertha Kgatitswe.- Chapter 13. Photovoice as Liberatory Enactment: The Case of Youth as Epistemic Agents by Nick Malherbe, Shahnaaz Suffla, Mohamed Seedat and Umesh Bawa.- Chapter 14. Critical Psychosocial Mnemonics as a Decolonising Participatory Method: Towards Refiguring and Reclaiming the Archive through Memory, Stories and Narratives by Garth Stevens.