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Understanding, Resisting, and Overcoming Oppression: Toward Psychopolitical Validity
Author(s) -
Prilleltensky Isaac
Publication year - 2003
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 - 10.1023/a:1023043108210
Subject(s) - oppression , transformative learning , agency (philosophy) , sociology , epistemology , social psychology , resistance (ecology) , action (physics) , psychology , political science , law , social science , politics , philosophy , pedagogy , ecology , physics , quantum mechanics , biology
My first objective in this paper is to synthesize, synoptically, the literature on oppression and liberation with the contributions to this special issue. To fulfil this aim I introduce a framework for understanding, resisting, and overcoming oppression. The framework consists of psychopolitical well‐being; experiences, consequences, and sources of oppression; and actions toward liberation. Each of these components is subdivided into 3 domains of oppression and well‐being: collective, relational, and personal. Experiences of suffering as well as resistance and agency are part of the framework. My second objective is to offer ways of closing the gap between research and action on oppression and liberation. To do so I suggest 2 types of psychopolitical validity: epistemic and transformative .