Concepts for Critical Psychology: Disciplinary Boundaries Re-thought
About the Book Series
Developments inside psychology that question the history of the discipline and the way it functions in society have led many psychologists to look outside the discipline for new ideas. This series draws on cutting edge critiques from just outside psychology in order to complement and question critical arguments emerging inside. The authors provide new perspectives on subjectivity from disciplinary debates and cultural phenomena adjacent to traditional studies of the individual.
The books in the series are useful for advanced level undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers and lecturers in psychology and other related disciplines such as cultural studies, geography, literary theory, philosophy, psychotherapy, social work and sociology.
Anticipation and Medicine: A Critical Analysis of the Science, Praxis and Perversion of Evidence Based Healthcare
1st Edition
By Owen Dempsey
August 22, 2018
Anticipation in Medicine: A Critical Analysis of the Science, Praxis and Perversion of Evidence Based Healthcare looks at an aspect of healthcare rarely addressed: how the capitalist interest in diagnosis and treatment impacts upon the patient and, by extension, the system of healthcare itself. ...
Fanon, Education, Action: Child as Method
1st Edition
By Erica Burman
July 17, 2018
Bridging childhood studies, pedagogy and educational theory, critical psychology, and postcolonial studies, this unique book reads the role and functions of ‘the child’ and childhood as both cultural motif and as embodied life condition through the work of Frantz Fanon. Based on innovative readings...
Identical Twins: The Social Construction and Performance of Identity in Culture and Society
1st Edition
By Mvikeli Ncube
June 04, 2018
In Identical Twins: The Social Construction and Performance of Identity in Culture and Society, Ncube conceptualises twin identity as a multi-layered dynamic that changes through performance, and explores twin identity through a social constructionist approach. Until now, mainstream twin studies ...
NO BODY: Clinical Constructions of Gender and Transsexuality - Pathologisation, Violence and Deconstruction
1st Edition
By Miguel Roselló-Peñaloza
May 14, 2018
What articulations between bodies, genders and desires are required socio-culturally for recognition of what is human? What happens with those people who do not meet the heteronormative criteria of intelligible life? Are psychology and medicine part of the solution, or part of the problem? This ...
The Psychopolitics of Food: Culinary rites of passage in the neoliberal age
1st Edition
By Mihalis Mentinis
March 29, 2018
The Psychopolitics of Food probes into the contemporary ‘foodscape’, examining culinary practices and food habits and in particular the ways in which they conflate with neoliberal political economy. It suggests that generic alimentary and culinary practices constitute technologies of the self and ...
Queer Politics in India: Towards Sexual Subaltern Subjects
1st Edition
By Shraddha Chatterjee
February 08, 2018
Queer Politics in India simultaneously tells two interconnected stories. The first explores the struggle against violence and marginalization by queer people in the Indian subcontinent, and places this movement towards equality and inclusion in relation to queer movements across the world. The ...
Subjectivity, Language and the Postcolonial: Beyond Bourdieu in South Africa
1st Edition
By Hannah Botsis
November 13, 2017
In Subjectivity, Language and the Postcolonial, Hannah Botsis draws on theoretical work that exists at the intersection of critical social psychology, sociolinguistics and the political economy of language, to examine the relationships between language, subjectivity, materiality and political ...
Blackwashing Homophobia: Violence and the Politics of Sexuality, Gender and Race
1st Edition
By Melanie Judge
August 24, 2017
As lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex identities increasingly secure legal recognition across the globe, these formal equality gains are contradicted by the continued presence of violence. Such violence emerges as a political pressure point for contestations of identity and power ...
Feminist Spirituality under Capitalism: Witches, Fairies, and Nomads
1st Edition
By Kathleen Skott-Myhre
July 06, 2017
Industrial modernity's worship of rationality had a profound effect on women’s ways of knowing, marginalizing them along with other alternate forms of knowledge such as the imagination and the unconscious. Feminist Spirituality under Capitalism discusses the importance of women’s spiritual ...
Female-Perpetrated Sex Abuse: Knowledge, Power, and the Cultural Conditions of Victimhood
1st Edition
By Sherianne Kramer
June 01, 2017
Female-Perpetrated Sex Abuse is a groundbreaking study into gender, sexuality and victimhood. It examines the cultural conditions of possibility for FSA victimhood as a means to advance contemporary critical understandings of the role of gender and sexuality as instruments of modern power. As the ...
Marxism and Psychoanalysis: In or against Psychology?
1st Edition
By David Pavon-Cuellar
January 06, 2017
The methods developed by Freud and Marx have enabled a range of scholars to critically reflect upon the ideological underpinnings of modern and now postmodern or hypermodern western societies. In this intriguing book, the discipline of psychology itself is screened through the twin dynamics of ...
Developing Minds: Psychology, neoliberalism and power
1st Edition
By Elise Klein
September 29, 2016
Development policy makers and practitioners are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their ability to target ‘development’ interventions and the psychological domain is now a specific frontier of their interventional focus. This landmark study considers the problematic relationship between ...