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A Critical Psychology of the Postcolonial
The Mind of Apartheid
- By Derek Hook.
Published November 2011
An oft-neglected element of postcolonial thought is the explicitly psychological dimension of many of its foundational texts. This unprecedented volume explores the relation between these two disciplinary domains by treating the work of a variety of anti-colonial authors as serious psychological…
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Visual Methods in Psychology
Using and Interpreting Images in Qualitative Research
- Edited by Paula Reavey.
Published July 2011
This comprehensive volume provides an unprecedented illustration of the potential for visual methods in psychology. Each chapter explores the set of theoretical, methodological, as well as ethical and analytical issues that shape the ways in which visual qualitative research is conducted in…
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The Madness of Women
Myth and Experience
- By Jane M. Ussher.
Published March 2011
Why are women more likely to be positioned or diagnosed as mad than men?
If madness is a social construction, a gendered label, as many feminist critics would argue, how can we understand and explain women's prolonged misery and distress? In turn, can we prevent or treat women’s distress, in a…
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Racial Encounter
The Social Psychology of Contact and Desegregation
- By Kevin Durrheim, and John Dixon.
Published October 2005
The political and legislative changes which took place in South Africa during the 1990s, with the dissolution of apartheid, created a unique set of social conditions. As official policies of segregation were abolished, people of both black and white racial groups began to experience new forms of…
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Social Constructionism
- By Vivien Burr.
Published August 2003
This accessible, yet scholarly, textbook aims to introduce students to the area of social science theory and research that has come to be known as social constructionism. Using a variety of examples from everyday experience and from existing research in areas such as personality, sexuality and…
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