1071 0 obj<>stream Objection 1: the theory is not consistent with official South African policy 173 Objection 2: global forces do not permit South African hegemony in the region 175 Objection 3: South African capability is insufficient 178 Objection 4: support for a hegemonic regime is too weak in South Africa 182 Objection 5: scepticism and low capacity in So why is it so difficult to achieve? Without such an analysis and a subsequent racial mobilisation around black identity and black experience, both liberal and socialist alternatives would, despite paying lip service to non-racialism, merely reproduce the psychological and social oppression of black people. 0000003074 00000 n Discourse and the politics of space in South Africa: The "squatter crisis". 0000004507 00000 n Johannesburg: Organisation for Appropriate Social Services in South Africa. This conference series has over the years been a forum for the airing of critical views on topics such as narrow empiricism in psychological research, psychology’s neglect of the body (see Terre Blanche, Bhavnani, & Hook, 1999), pathologising tendencies in clinical psychology, gender politics, and the psychology of neo-liberal economics. The most recent of these various innovative and critical texts is Hook’s (2004) South African introduction to critical psychology. Once again, in keeping with its countries of origin, psychology, after the formation of its first professional body in 1948, underwent exponential growth and rapid professionalisation (Louw & Foster, 1991; Louw, 2002). Second, South Africa is as good an example as any of the way mainstream psychology has positioned itself vis-à-vis neo-colonialism, racism, capitalist exploitation, and neo-liberal market ideologies - as well as of the potential of critical alternatives to upset these ideological complicities and to create pockets of resistance. In Terre Blanche (Ed. Thus, although there are aspects of the history of South African psychology that would be disowned by the discipline internationally (did we mention that Hendrik Verwoerd was himself a psychologist, whose 1924 doctoral thesis was about "The blunting of the emotions"? Such links should also help us in the task of developing a post-colonial African psychology that takes race and culture seriously, but does not succumb to essentialist or romantic notions of local-global differences. Papadopoulis, D. (2003). Black skin, white masks. Without knowing what to do with them, without an insight into their purpose and function, goals falls short of being realised. In M. Hazelton & N. Schaay (Eds. (1993). Although it is presented in typical student textbook style, it departs from the organisational pattern of mainstream social psychology textbooks to include an array of specifically South African themes, foregrounding neglected theoretical areas, such as the psychology of oppression. In J. Henriques, W. Hollway, C. Venn, V. Walkerdine & C. Urwin (Eds. Proceedings of the fourth OASSSA national conference. Durrheim, K. & Dixon, J.A. Within the context of South Africa’s complex social and economic challenges and opportunities, resilience is likely to be a vital virtue. — Investing in the young for a better future: A programme of intervention. On racism. In the flurry of institutional transformation that characterised early post-apartheid South Africa, the white-dominated Psychological Association of South Africa (PASA) was disbanded and a more inclusive body, the Psychology Society of South Africa (PsySSA), founded. If the goal of critical theory education is to free the oppressed, it therefore sides with the oppressed against the oppressor. Fanon, F. (1967). Oxford, Oxfordshire, PONToon Virtual Symposium: Digital Innovation and Female Empowerment Positioning itself outside of the inadequate social and mental health services of the apartheid state, OASSSA, consisting of psychologists from all the critical traditions discussed above but also other progressive mental health practitioners, defined itself as: a progressive service body concerned to address social service and mental health needs in keeping with a commitment to a non-racial democratic South Africa. Hook, D. & Terre Blanche, M.J. (1998). Thus, for example, when a section of the South African Psychological Association (SAPA) objected, in the late 1950s, to the membership of a black psychologist and elicited the support of then prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd (the "architect of apartheid"), this was depicted as improper political interference by SAPA and the reactionaries were compelled to form a conservative breakaway group. Critical Psychology II - Back to the future. Manganyi, N.C. (1973). In South Africa it was especially SIT that provided some theoretical means to transcend the individualism, narrow empiricism and often trivial nature of American social psychology - a tradition that was, in the forms of prejudice-and-personality approaches, contact theory and attitude- and social distance measures, dominant in South Africa as well (Foster & Louw-Potgieter, 1991; Collins, 2003). Murray, 2002) - therefore runs the risk of indulging in superficial exoticism at the expense of confronting the real issues facing the discipline and profession internationally. Terre Blanche, M.J., Bhavnani, K.K. Second, links should be forged with political and economic theorists and activists outside psychology so as to hone our understandings of how the neo-liberal world order and the workings of the "free market" bring about the forms of subjectification which psychology claims to study, as well as provide us with opportunities for developing and acting on a post-liberal, radical democratic political imaginary. In D. Foster & J. Louw-Potgieter (Eds. The South African context. In V.S. But critical psychology in South Africa during the 1980s attempted to be more than a style of scholarly critique and to do more than develop theoretical resources. 0000005954 00000 n (1986). 55-61). 0000003756 00000 n (p. 80). Sexton & J.D. Holdstock, T.L. In each case we show how developments in critical psychology reflected and contributed to broader social processes as South Africa emerged from apartheid. Community psychology: Past, present, and future. Psychology in South Africa is more similar to than it is different from psychology anywhere else in the world, and this is true of critical psychology also. Unfortunately, not all of these more practical initiatives survived the shift to democracy, and as we shall argue later, there is still a lack of links between critical psychology theory and political mobilisation and organisation at the level of civil society.

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