Second Marxism & Psychology Conference, Morelia, Mexico, 9-12 August 2012

Interventionist Research Methodologies Workshops by Prof Harry Daniels

Prof Harry Daniels is Director of the Centre for Sociocultural and Activity Theory Research (CSAT) and Professor of Education at University of Bath (UK). Prof Daniels is also Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Learning Research, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia; Research Professor at the Centre for Human Activity Theory, Kansai University, Japan; and Research Professor in Cultural Historical Psychology at Moscow State University of Psychology and Education.

Southern Psychologies blog by Desmond Painter

Here is a recent entry on Desmond Painter's blog which may be worth a read if language is your interest:

http://southernpsychologies.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/the-monolingual-drone-language-and-critical-psychology-part-1/

Psychology and Marxism

A special issue of the Annual Review of Psychology focusing on Marxism has just appeared. Articles address topics such as Psychoanalytic Critical Theory, the political organization of psychology, Marxist elements in Lacanian theory, crowd psychology, and Marxian currents in Community Psychology. The complete 140 page special issue can be downloaded from http://www.discourseunit.com/arcp9.pdf (a 13 MB file).

Schubart Park Eviction observations - Pat Finlay

Security. What security? What IS security?

Police sirens sound (not too unfamiliar), and stop right here, and then many
more. Police mini buses, vans and other vehicles, some with red and orange
flashing lights besides the blue ones. I counted seven vehicles from my
vantage point. They storm the premises with guns drawn..

Programme for the "Boys in Africa" round table discussion.

Here is a link to the "Boys in Africa" round table discussion programme, which takes place on the 25th of October 2011

Boys in Africa Programme

New Blog - Southern Psychologies

Desmond Painter has started a new blog, Southern Psychologies, in which he considers how one might think about and practice psychology (including community and social psychology) from the “global South”. Find his blog at http://southernpsychologies.wordpress.com