The World Looks Like This From Here
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The World Looks Like This From Here

Thoughts on African Psychology

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The World Looks Like This From Here

Thoughts on African Psychology

About this book

What does the world look like from Africa? What does it mean to think, feel, express without apology for being African? How does one teach society and children to be African – with full consciousness and pride? In institutions of learning, what would a textbook on African-centred psychology look like? How do researchers and practitioners engage in African social psychology, African-centred child development, African neuropsychology, or any area of psychology that situates African realities at the centre? Questions such as these are what eminent professor of psychology Kopano Ratele grapples with in this lyrical, philosophical and poetic treatise on practising African psychology in a decolonised world view. Employing a style common in philosophy but rarely used in psychology, the book offers thoughts about the ideas, contestation, urgency and desire around a psychological praxis in Africa for Africans. While setting out a framework for researching, teaching and practicing African psychology, the book in part coaxes, in part commands and in part urges students of psychology, lecturers, researchers and therapists to reconsider and reach beyond their received notions of African psychology.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. Author's note
  5. 1 (African)
  6. 2 The necessary adjective
  7. 3 Disorientation
  8. 4 Awake to Africa
  9. 5 A way of seeing
  10. 6 Off-centre
  11. 7 Words are not enough
  12. 8 Teaching Africa
  13. 9 Psychology is culture
  14. 10 Africa internationalised
  15. 11 Aiming for redundancy
  16. 12 Overlooked perspectives
  17. 13 Unselfconscious situatedness
  18. 14 Own goal
  19. 15 African scholarship
  20. 16 Education as ethical responsibility
  21. 17 Black children and white dolls
  22. 18 Search for Africa in psychology
  23. 19 Dethingifying
  24. 20 Three problems
  25. 21 Fog and friction
  26. 22 African enough?
  27. 23 Antipathy, apathy
  28. 24 Superhuman subhuman
  29. 25 Sources of negativity
  30. 26 Not all (blacks) think alike
  31. 27 Causes of confusion
  32. 28 Estrangement
  33. 29 The centre
  34. 30 Terminology
  35. 31 Defining by negation
  36. 32 Self-sabotage
  37. 33 A welcoming home
  38. 34 Defining by affirmation
  39. 35 Scholarly extraverts and introverts
  40. 36 It's African, except when it's not
  41. 37 Points on a continuum
  42. 38 Invisible Africa
  43. 39 Calls to decolonise
  44. 40 We need to talk
  45. 41 A heterogeneous terrain
  46. 42 It's power, stupid
  47. 43 Living with constant resistance
  48. 44 A psychological history of struggle
  49. 45 Healing potential
  50. 46 Porous hegemony
  51. 47 An offshore model
  52. 48 Only a situated understanding will do
  53. 49 Satisfied with alienation
  54. 50 A worldwide need
  55. 51 Diverse and dynamic orientations
  56. 52 Returning to definition
  57. 53 A psychology from nowhere
  58. 54 A proposal
  59. 55 (African) American psychology
  60. 56 Mischievous questions
  61. 57 Solutions to alienation
  62. 58 Conscientisation
  63. 59 A new course
  64. 60 Complicity
  65. 61 The lost self
  66. 62 An unacknowledged past
  67. 63 In and of the world
  68. 64 Origins of (African) psychology
  69. 65 Birth of a discipline
  70. 66 Paternity claims
  71. 67 Fatal intimacy
  72. 68 Lineage and authority
  73. 69 Being African
  74. 70 Interconnectivity
  75. 71 Four axioms
  76. 72 Above all
  77. 73 The past in the present
  78. 74 Making space for all
  79. 75 Caveat
  80. 76 A variegated approach
  81. 77 The ultimate goal
  82. 78 Real constraints
  83. 79 Debates and contests
  84. 80 A contingent term
  85. 81 Polyvocality
  86. 82 Four orientations
  87. 83 Notes on Western-oriented African psychology
  88. 84 The world as it is
  89. 85 Notes on psychological African studies
  90. 86 A note on cultural African psychology
  91. 87 Traditions and modernities
  92. 88 Further notes on cultural African psychology
  93. 89 A note on critical African psychology
  94. 90 Misperceiving the object
  95. 91 Permeable boundaries
  96. 92 European archives, African exchanges
  97. 93 Continued hopes and frustrations
  98. 94 (African) developmental psychology
  99. 95 (African) community psychology
  100. 96 Awake to yourself
  101. 97 Tenets of psychology
  102. 98 Psychological freedom
  103. 99 Think Africa in the world
  104. 100 Always the future
  105. Index