Featured Articles from Around the Globe

Global Perspectives and Experiences of Community Psychologists for the Promotion of Social Change and the Construction of Radical Solidarities

James F. Moura Jr, Christopher C. Sonn, Irma Serrano Garcia, Blanca Ortiz-Torres

In this special issue we seek to document and learn from exemplars from around the world of interventions and other forms of applied work in organisational, community, and everyday social settings that are aimed at producing social change and changing oppressive social and cultural realities. This introduction presents the colonial origins of oppression and strategies for building social change based on radical solidarity.

Doing ethical research together: A communitarian toolkit for ethical research beyond borders

Clara Calia, Corinne Reid, Cristobal Guerra, Action Amos, Joseph Burke, Abdul-Gafar Oshodi

Global challenges research is defined by intractable and complex problems that require large-scale, interdisciplinary, international collaborations of increasing complexity. This toolkit explores an ethical worldview for research and provides practical guidance and questions to consider at every stage of the research journey, from developing an ethical research question through to being accountable for the legacy of your research long after the project has concluded.

Fortaleciendo el vínculo universidad-comunidad: Buenas prácticas y material de apoyo para el Aprendizaje Servicio

Strengthening the University-Community Bond: Good Practices and Support Material for Service Learning

Marianne Daher, Antonia Rosati, Nicole Vásquez, Laura Carstens

El fortalecimiento del vínculo universidad-comunidad es un desafío pendiente para la psicología comunitaria. Para avanzar en esta dirección, sistematizamos prácticas asociadas al vínculo entre estudiantes, equipos docentes, socios comunitarios, comunidades, agencias intermediarias (entre la universidad y socios comunitarios), y grupos de estudiantes.

Strengthening university-community bonds is a pending challenge for community psychology. To advance in this direction, we systematized practices associated with the bond between students, teaching teams, community partners, communities, intermediary agencies (between the university and community partners), and student groups. 

Enlazando experiencias comunitarias importantes a la formación académica en Psicología Social

Linking important community experiences to academic training in Social Psychology
 

Eduardo Almeida Acosta

El propósito de esta presentación oral es comunicar los aprendizajes que yo he reunido a lo largo de mis días cómo académico y como activista.

The purpose of this oral presentation is to communicate the learnings that I have gathered throughout my days as an academic and as an activist.

Proceso de transformación comunitaria a través de las artes escénicas en dos escenarios comunitarios en Puerto Rico

Process of community transformation through the performing arts in two community settings in Puerto Rico
 

Yazmín E. Maldonado Peña

Las artes comunitarias tienen la capacidad de generar procesos significativos de transformación en los distintos niveles de intervención psicosocial (individual, grupal, comunitario, institucional, político, cultural e ideológico). En este trabajo, analizamos los procesos de transformación comunitaria producto de la participación en proyectos comunitarios basados en artes escénicas.

Community arts have the ability to generate significant processes of transformation at different levels of psychosocial intervention (individual, group, community, institutional, political, cultural and ideological). In this work, we analyze the processes of community transformation resulting from participation in community projects based on performing arts.

Hopes and fears for the future of different local communities

Minou Ella Mebane and Maura Benedetti 

The aim of this study was to investigate the perception of the future of their Community of people resident in the city center of Rome, in peripheral areas of Rome and small towns of the metropolitan area of the Capital, analyzing what they fear most for their Community and what they desire mainly for the future of their Community, through Community Profiling.

Catalytic Framework: Intersectional Analysis for Community Engagement

Maryam Khan, Mehek Ali, Qadeer Baig, Aneeta Pasha, and Kausar S. Khan

The collective nature of Pakistani culture and its social inequities has required the Community Engagement Centre (CEC) to recognize the intersections that shape contexts and situations, to promote local ownership, empower communities to identify and utilize existing resources for sustainable change, and improve health outcomes. Through an immersive community engagement (CE) strategy, CEC utilises participatory tools to collect stories from communities to understand their lived experiences, barriers and enablers to access, and the dynamics of power that influence these.

Hidden hunger in a land of plenty: Food insecurity in Aotearoa New Zealand

Rebekah Graham, Kimberly Jackson, Bridgette Masters-Awatere, and Ottilie Stolte

Aotearoa New Zealand is a relatively wealthy, food-producing nation. Yet, increasing numbers of the populace are experiencing food insecurity, hidden hunger, and material hardship. More than an individual issue, ensuring food security requires consideration of the social and cultural components of growing, preparing, and consuming food and meals. This article documents three research exemplars that challenge dominant global representations of Aotearoa New Zealand as an idyllic haven. In describing and reflecting our respective research projects we illustrate how broader socio-political and economic factors play out materially in the everyday lives of marginalised groups by restricting access to food.

The Kanaeokana Network: Reflecting on Five Years of Envisioning a Hawaiian Education System and Aloha ʻĀina Leaders

Liezl Alcantara Houglum and Malia Nobrega-Olivera

How might a network approach be used to address issues and goals seemingly impossible for individuals to tackle alone? Established to increase momentum and synergy among multiple organizations through mutual work and shared goals, the Kanaeokana network was forged five years ago and today demonstrates progress toward supportive infrastructure, cohesion and collective strength, member engagement, and reach beyond our primary Indigenous-serving base. In this article, we reflect critically on Kanaeokana’s approach over the past five years, with a focus on network health, adaptability, and social change in practice.