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ALT A vibrant digital illustration of a stylised fish in profile, rendered in bold shades of orange, blue, turquoise, green and yellow. Layered textures and flowing patterns give the fish a mosaic-like appearance, with a prominent eye and sweeping fins creating a sense of movement. Text says - “If the presence of psychiatry in Ghana is so tenuous, then what discourse lies at the heart of its Mad Pride? How situated is the knowledge being produced, negotiated, and disseminated?” Essya M. Nabbali. Cite as - Nabbali, E. M. (2013). “Mad” activism and its (Ghanian?) future: A prolegomena todebate. Trans-Scripts, 3, 178–201.

ALT Peace Psychology Webinar Rethinking Peace Research in Turkey: Kurdish Identity, Researcher Positionalities, and Collective Future Imagination This webinar brings together two strands of research on Kurdish identity, peace, and conflict in Turkey, emerging from two peace processes initiated in Turkey over the last two decades. First, the speakers will synthesize their systematic and meta-analytical reviews of research on Kurdishness, intergroup contact, and identity conducted during the first peace process (2012 to 2015), showing how state narratives and researchers' positionalities shape the literature. Second, they will present preliminary findings from an ongoing pilot study on how Kurds make sense of peace, democracy, and Kurdish identity, and how they imagine their collective future under uncertainty during the current peace process (2025 to present). The Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, & Violence (Peace Psychology) invites you to join this webinar on June 2, 2026 Tuesday

ALT One of the means for achieving this goal has been to single out "secularists" and "modernists" who are either apparently quite lost about what is going on in India or worse, try to impose "Western" ideas on the people in an attempt to undermine the peace and tranquility that was presumably the natural state of affairs in "traditional," pre-colonial India. Zaheer Baber Open access paper cite as Baber, Z (1998). Communal conflict and the nostalgic imagination in India. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 28(1), pp.27-44.

ALT Dalit studies is an emerging field of study in India that focuses on the lived experiences of South Asians and their diaspora. It is a transdisciplinary field that looks into Dalit histories, literature and political oppression to challenge dominant caste structures. Dalit Studies looks to decenter dominant narratives about South Asian society, usually told through the erasure of caste discrimination by recovering Dalit histories and literature. As a liberatory field of study, it is a part of a wider social movement advocating for social change.

ALT Topics suggested, but not limited to Emerging discourse in psychology Voices of minorities within the nation Feminism and popular culture Imagining a psychology of women Feminism in Education Psychology’s response to feminist and queer movements Addressing ethnic violence Feminist resistance to nationalism Send an abstract between 300-500 words and a 50 word author(s) biography by 15th April 2026. All submissions and queries should be emailed to the guest editor, Dr Sonia Soans. Contact us via this link https://shorturl.at/U5yr8

ALT “Critical psychology means to question — to question the underlying assumptions of theory and practice and the way in which they may maintain and perpetuate ignorance, inequality, oppression — in short, — the stuff of human suffering.” Barbara Duarte Esgalhado Duarte Esgalhado, B. (2000). The Critical Psychology of Everyday Life. In: T. Sloan, ed., Critical psychology: Voices for change. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press., pp.223–235.

ALT POWER: Special Issue – Feminism in Asia Exploring intersections of gender, sexuality, disability, caste & political identity through feminist & psychological lenses. Decentring Western paradigms and amplifying marginalised voices in Asian contexts. Topics suggested, but not limited to Emerging discourse in psychology Voices of minorities within the nation Feminism and popular culture Imagining a psychology of women Feminism in Education Psychology’s response to feminist and queer movements Addressing ethnic violence Feminist resistance to nationalism Send an abstract between 300-500 words and a 50 word author(s) biography by 15th April 2026. All submissions and queries should be emailed to the guest editor, Dr Sonia Soans. Contact us via this link https://shorturl.at/U5yr8













