The Psychology of Global Crises and Crisis Politics: Intervention, Resistance, Decolonization

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This edited volume brings together some of the most prominent scholars in the fields of theoretical, critical, and political psychology to examine crisis phenomena. The book investigates the role of psychology as a science in times of crisis, discusses how socio-political change affects the discipline and profession, and renders psychological interventions as forms of political action. The authors examine how notions of crisis and the interpretation of crisis scenarios are heavily intertwined with governmental and state interests. Seeking to disentangle individual subjectivity, subjectification, and science as forms of politics, the volume works toward an explicit goal to decolonize psychology. The chapters elaborate on the importance of the psychological sciences in times of crisis and the role of psychologists as practitioners. Ultimately, the diverse contributions underline the connection of scientific theory, practice, and politics. Interdisciplinary in scope and wide-ranging in its perspectives, this timely work will appeal to students and scholars of theoretical and political psychology, critical psychology, and cultural studies.   Contents Notes on Contributors 1 Crises, Politics, Psychology—An Introduction References Part I Decolonization 2 Assembling the Psycurity Accord in Response to the Early COVID-19 Outbreak in Aotearoa New Zealand Introduction Contextualizing the Psycurity Accord Pandemics, Kaci Hickox, and COVID-19 in the Courts The Psycurity Accord Is Mediated Balancing Surveillance and Privacy Within the Accord Returning to an Inequitable System Further Reflections on the Psycurity Accord References 3 Amerindian Paths Through Recurrent Sociocultural Crises The Work of Amerindian Support Network: An Illustration Conflicts from the Past Self and Dialogical Multiplication Pemomba eme Limits of Understanding Without Participation Final Considerations References 4 The Pandemic is a Mirror: Decolonizing Psychology and Racism in Times of COVID-19 Crisis Self, Positionality, and Theory The Crisis of the Pandemic and People: Understanding Coloniality in Decolonial Frameworks Race, Coloniality, and Psychology Colorblind Ideology in Pandemic Times Structural Racism, Racial Coloniality, and Black Communities Concluding Thoughts References 5 The Sense of a Pandemic: Test, Trials, and Turbulence in the Indian Subcontinent Background News: Good and Bad Crises and Consequences Fear and Uncertainty Self-Other Dynamics The Situation in India Method, Measures, and the Media Turbulence Physical Distancing and Social Solidarity Cultural Patterns and the Exposure During a Crisis Cultural Processes and Their Study ‘Asia Is Not Well Understood’ Dharavi: From a Pandemic Hotspot to Plasma Donations Looking Ahead: Uncomfortable Questions in Post-Coronial Times Crisis Talk Lessons Learned? Summing-Up: Lessons for ‘Post-Coronial’ Psychology References 6 Necropolitics, Epistemic Injustice, and the Recurring Crises of Psychology Necropolitics Hermeneutical Injustice References 7 Psychologies Otherwise & Earthwise: Pluriversal Approaches to the Crises of Climate, Equity, and Health The Climate Crisis Coercive Social Hierarchies Biodiversity Impact: Racial/Health Inequities Transitions, Alternatives, Interventions: Psychologies Otherwise, a Pluriversal Approach Psychologies Otherwise Conclusion References Part II Interventions 8 Eco-Anxiety and Psycho-Terratic Paradigms of Practice: A View From Australia Australian Bushfires and Climate Change A National Crisis Clinical Psychology Ill-Equipped Terra-Psychology as an Alternative Paradigm Practice Hypotheses: Three Provocations Aboriginal Social and Emotional Well-Being Albrecht’s Eco-Existentialism Nichterlein, Deleuze, and Psychology Adventures in Method Humboldt, Romantic Science and Ecocide: A Walk in the Woods (Degen et al., 2019) Climate Activists: Mapping Place-Based Biographies Kelly, Albrecht, Rhodes Conclusion: Hope Nature References 9 Lockdown Vistas: Time, Space, Solidarity, Action Pre-View Introduction ‘Lockdown’ Beyond Occupation/Petrification “We Are All Enemies Now” The Lost Middle Space, Time, and the Logic of Subjective Construction Becoming “Actional,” “Scaling Up,” and Solidarity Anticipating Lockdown Nostalgia Beyond Waiting References 10 Pandemic, Fatalism, and Psychology’s Paralysis: How to Promote the Strengthening of People and Groups in Brazil Fatalism—A Challenge for Latin American Psychology Strengthen, Face, and Overcome—The Proposals for Psychology Final Considerations References 11 Preparing for the Wrong Emergency: Visions of Generation Changing Events References Part III Science and Politics 12 Pseudo-Science and ‘Fake’ News: ‘Inventing’ Epidemics and the Police State Pseudo-Science and Its Shadows Lockdown Contagion Inventing ‘Pseudo-Science’: On Science and Its Discontents Necropolitics in an Injectable Postphenomenology and Conspiracy, or: Vaccination and National Security How to Write a Narrative for a Pandemic References 13 Crisis Within Crisis Within Crisis: Global Pandemic; Mass Unemployment; Anti-Capitalist Critique? Introductory Remarks A Critical Frame of Reference Coronavirus Pandemic: Pre- and Post-Pandemic Unemployment The Relationship Between Unemployment and Psychological Misery, Morbidity, and Mortality According to the Psy-Complex Critique of the Psy-Complexification of Neoliberal Capitalist Violence in Relation to Unemployment References 14 The Covid-19 Pandemic and the Crisis of Signification in Israel/Palestine: Biopolitics, Reinvented Communism, and Conspiracy Theories The Pandemic in Israel/Palestine: A Nakbah to end all Nakbahs? Biopolitics and New Forms of Solidarity in Israel/Palestine: The Necropolitical Turn The End of Conspiracy Theories: Liberation for all References 15 Viral Resistance Viral Crisis Far-Right State-Oriented Response Far-Right Libertarian Response Neoliberal Response Liberal Response Ecosocialist Response Distance and Time Four Elements of Viral Resistance References 16 Essay on Fascist Subjectivity Fascist Subjectivity and Political Fascism Fascist Subjectivity as a Socio-Relational Phenomenon Political Economy: Capitalism Racism Subhumanism Resisting Fascist Subjectivity References 17 Decolonize Psychology Index