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The Marvellous Majority World
Joined August 2021
Pleased to announce our first publication a special issue of Annual Review of Critical Psychology: Critical Psychology in the Majority World. Please share widely. Thank you. Link discourseunit.com/annual-rev… #CriticalPsychology #MajorityWorld #openaccessjournal
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Let’s treat psychological theories as maps of power — not neutral descriptions. What gets named “disorder,” and what remains “normal,” often reflect structural oppression. #Psychopolitics #CriticalTheory
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Can Mad Pride travel across cultures without losing its meaning? Whose knowledge counts, and who defines liberation? Whose knowledge counts? Who defines liberation? #MadPride #CriticalPsychiatry #GlobalMentalHealth #DecoloniseMentalHealth
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Afro-Asian Critical Psychology retweeted
The left fetishises the "working class" because its most powerful outlets and orgs are run by people who have no idea how people's lives function. If you're writing a 5000-word essay on class struggle without pay for Catalyst, you have no damn idea what class even means.
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Decolonial psychology means refusing to treat human suffering as pathology divorced from political economy, coloniality and ecological violence.
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UPsyS is proud to launch the inaugural Psychological Science Diplomacy Day for Peace on 29 May 2026. Wesbite iupsys.net
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Having witnessed India’s journey from colonial rule to a free republic, Romila Thapar continues to warn against authoritarianism in education and historical narrative. When critical inquiry is controlled, democracy itself is diminished. #Education #History #Authoritarianism
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Webinar - 'Rethinking Peace Research in Turkey: Kurdish Identity, Researcher Positionalities, and Collective Future Imagination' Date: Tue June 2 2026 Time: 19:00 Turkey / 17:00 Britain / 12:00 noon Eastern Registration us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
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This ⬇️ the complexity of which non white representation is palatable to an audience and which ones get rewarded.
About demands on "ethnic" writers: I once tried to get a group of non-white people to read English, August: An Indian Story, by Upamanyu Chatterjee. It's completely unlike any recognisable Indian fiction, especially for its time, and they refused. It didn't have all the tropes.+
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Peace Psychology Webinar Resisting militarism: Conscientious objection to military service Date Tuesday, May 19, 2026 Time 19:00 Turkey 17:00 Britain 12:00 noon Eastern Registration link us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
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Critical psychology must call out the epistemic violence of mainstream research: who defines what counts as “psychology,” and why are scholars from the Global North prioritised ?
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Zaheer Baber reminds us that the attack on secularism and modern thought is far from incidental. It forms part of a deliberate strategy to romanticize a fabricated past.
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British Indian historian @mihirbose looks at the rise of the right in India and the template it has provided for other right wing leaders. Bose’s analysis looks at how nationalism has mobilised the Indian psyche to find enemies lurking everywhere.
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Gender and Postfeminism in Chinese Reality Dating Shows - By Xintong Jia. Open access book. Download from here link.springer.com/book/10.10…
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Happy Ambedkar Jayanti! Celebrating Dr. B.R. Ambedkar (1891–1956), social reformer and chief architect of the Indian Constitution. His writings continue to inspire the fight against caste oppression. Art: @PrudyRay #Ambedkar
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Healing needs more than diagnosis — breath, gesture, relationality. Embodied and contextual practices (not just clinical categories) matter for justice.
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Peace Psychology Webinar - “Invasion, Occupation, and Forced Displacement in Lebanon” with Professors Aya Adra Rim Saab and Ramy Barhouche Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2026 Time: 19:00 Lebanon & 12:00 Noon Eastern time Registration: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
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Inviting submissions on feminism in Asian contexts. Guest edited by Sonia Soans @POWES_BPS. We welcome theoretical/empirical papers, reviews, short papers, interviews and creative work. 🔗 shorturl.at/U5yr8 #FeminismInAsia #Psychology #CallforPapers 📷
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Barbara Duarte Esgalhado calls us to stay alert to the power woven into psychological theory and practice. Critical psychology urges us to question the taken-for-granted—and to align our work with equity, justice, and liberation. #CriticalPsychology #SocialJustice
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Afro-Asian Critical Psychology retweeted
Call for Papers | Feminism in Asia @POWES_BPS Inviting submissions on feminism in Asian contexts. Guest edited by me. We welcome theoretical/empirical papers, reviews, short papers, interviews, and creative work. 🔗 shorturl.at/U5yr8 #FeminismInAsia #Psychology #Decolonise
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