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Alternative Knowledges and the Future of Community Psychology: Provocations from an American Indian Healing Tradition
Author(s) -
Gone Joseph P.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
american journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1573-2770
pISSN - 0091-0562
DOI - 10.1002/ajcp.12046
Subject(s) - health psychology , community psychology , warrant , indigenous , sociology , public health , hegemony , disengagement theory , environmental ethics , community engagement , social science , discipline , community health , psychology , social psychology , public relations , political science , medicine , gerontology , law , nursing , ecology , philosophy , politics , financial economics , economics , biology
In the early years of this globalized century, alternative health knowledges and wellness traditions circulate faster and farther than ever before. To the degree that community psychologists seek collaboration with cultural minority and other marginalized populations in support of their collective wellbeing, such knowledges and traditions are likely to warrant attention, engagement, and support. My purpose in this article is to trace an epistemological quandary that community psychologists are ideally poised to consider at the interface of hegemonic and subjugated knowing with respect to advances in community wellbeing. To this end, I describe an American Indian knowledge tradition, its association with specific indigenous healing practices, its differentiation from therapeutic knowledge within disciplinary psychology, and the broader challenge posed by alternative health knowledges for community psychologists.