For an Anti-capitalist Psychology of Community

<p>Anti-capitalist political struggle is a site of struggling psychologies. Conscious political action is never far from unconscious desire and the fight for material justice is always also the fight for dignity and psychological well-being. Yet how might community psychologists conceive of their discipline in a way that opposes the very capitalist political economy that historically most of the psy-disciplines have bolstered in return for disciplinary legitimacy?  In its consideration of an anti-capitalist psychology of community this book does not ignore or try to resolve the contradictory position of such a psychology. Instead it draws on these contradictions to enliven psychology to the shifting demands - both creative and destructive - of a community-centred anti-capitalism. Using practical examples the book deals with the psychological components of building community-centred social movements that challenge neoliberal capitalism as a political system an ideology anda mode of governing rationality. The book also offers several theoretical contributions that grapple with how an anti-capitalist psychology of community can remain attentive to the psychological elements of anti-capitalist struggle; what the psychological can tell us about anti-capitalist politics; and how these politics can shape the psychological.</p><br>