Changing norms, strategies, and systems to support behavioral health and social justice: A call to action and introduction to the special section.

2017 ◽  
Vol 87 (5) ◽  
pp. 505-509
Author(s):  
Jill D. McLeigh ◽  
Ryan P. Kilmer
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Behavioral Health ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Call To Action

Including Multiculturalism, Social Justice, and Peace within the Integration of Psychology and Theology: Barriers and a Call to Action

2020 ◽  
pp. 009164712097498
Author(s):  
John M. McConnell ◽  
Vincent Bacote ◽  
Edward B. Davis ◽  
Eric M. Brown ◽  
Christin J. Fort ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Clinical Work ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Trinitarian Theology ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Education Training

Multiculturalism, social justice, and peace are important aspects of the Christian faith. However, scholars in the literature seeking to integrate psychology and Christian theology have underrepresented them. In this present article, we review barriers to including them in our psychology–theology integration literature. Thereafter, we provide a trinitarian theology of multiculturalism, social justice, and peace with a hope that theological knowledge will help Christian psychologists begin to overcome barriers and to move this body of literature forward. We also offer implications for scholarship/research, education/training, and clinical work.

scholarly journals Aftermath of Cultural Heritage Disasters

Museum Worlds ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 200-231
Author(s):  
Sheila K. Hoffman ◽  
Dominique Poulot ◽  
Bruno Brulon-Soares ◽  
Joanna Cobley
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Special Section ◽  
The World ◽  
Heritage Protection ◽  
The Impact ◽  
As If

There is no doubt that we live in fraught times. In the world of museums and cultural heritage protection, we feel it keenly. As symbols and microcosms of respective cultures, museums are thought to reflect society or, at the very least, sections of society or certain historical moments. But the extent to which museums should and do reflect the diversity of people in those societies is the question du jour. Sometimes, it seems as if this question is an internal one—the practical struggle of often underfunded institutions to square the injustices of a past that is encoded into collections with a newfound awareness of visitors, or the theoretical debate about just how multivocal, democratic, and oriented toward social justice a museum can be before it ceases to be a “museum.” The consequences of such struggles and debates can often seem far removed from the concerns of ordinary residents, who may only occasionally visit museums or heritage monuments. Our perception of this disregard perhaps calls into question the impact of our work. But in times of crisis, that doubt is removed and the relevance of cultural heritage becomes clear. Crisis often crystallizes what is most important. That is not surprising. In this special section, we explore the sometimes surprising nature of the aftermath.

scholarly journals Urban Humanities and the Creative Practitioner

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 12-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana Cuff ◽  
Jennifer Wolch
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
The Future ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
The City ◽  
A Current ◽  
Creative Group

Creative practices are needed to address the range of issues that confront contemporary cities—issues of social justice, economic development, and environmental quality. Urban humanities emphasize innovative methods and practices, which evolve along with shifting epistemologies in multidisciplinary confluence, standing in contrast to a current dominant narrative that contemporary cities depend upon attracting a creative group of citizens. Recent efforts the LA River, driven by a motley crew of people set out to reimagine new possibilities for the river, illustrating that the city as an object of study intrinsically carries implications about action and about the future. This manifesto offers a call to action for scholars to become engaged, creative urban practitioners.

Singing our way to justice: A conversation with Dan Damon—hymn writer, composer, and pastor

2017 ◽  
Vol 114 (3) ◽  
pp. 403-413
Author(s):  
Nancy E. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
United Methodist ◽  
Spiritual Formation ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
United Methodist Church ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Methodist Church ◽  
Call To Action

Hymnody has long reflected both the theology and the changing concerns of the Christian church. Dan Damon, a leading practitioner with more than a hundred published hymns, has conducted large-scale research into the representation of social justice issues in contemporary hymnals. Damon is interviewed about his creative process as hymn text writer and as composer (a process deeply intertwined with his work as pastor of a United Methodist church), shedding additional light on the questions that motivate his research: “What are we already singing about justice?” and “What justice issues have our hymn writers not yet addressed?” Several hymn texts illustrate Damon’s responses to the omissions implied by the latter question. Reflections on the role of this new hymnody, both in the congregation’s spiritual formation and as call to action, suggest the vitality to be gained by including hymn texts on social justice in our worship.

scholarly journals Activism in changing times: Reinvigorating community psychology: Introduction to the Special Thematic Section

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 526-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Flora Cornish ◽  
Catherine Campbell ◽  
Cristián Montenegro
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Community Psychology ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Community Agency ◽  
Thematic Section ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Changing Times

The field of community psychology has for decades concerned itself with the theory and practice of bottom-up emancipatory efforts to tackle health inequalities and other social injustices, often assuming a consensus around values of equality, tolerance and human rights. However, recent global socio-political shifts, particularly the individualisation of neoliberalism and the rise of intolerant, exclusionary politics, have shaken those assumptions, creating what many perceive to be exceptionally hostile conditions for emancipatory activism. This special thematic section brings together a diverse series of articles which address how health and social justice activists are responding to contemporary conditions, in the interest of re-invigorating community psychology’s contribution to emancipatory efforts. The current article introduces our collective conceptualisation of these ‘changing times’, the challenges they pose, and four openings offered by the collection of articles. Firstly, against the backdrop of neoliberal hegemony, these articles argue for a return to community psychology’s core principle of relationality. Secondly, articles identify novel sources of disruptive community agency, in the resistant identities of nonconformist groups, and new, technologically-mediated communicative relations. Thirdly, articles prompt a critical reflection on the potentials and tensions of scholar-activist-community relationships. Fourthly, and collectively, the articles inspire a politics of hope rather than of despair. Building on the creativity of the activists and authors represented in this special section, we conclude that the environment of neoliberal individualism and intolerance, rather than rendering community psychology outdated, serves to re-invigorate its core commitment to relationality, and to a bold and combative scholar-activism.

scholarly journals Call to Action for Promoting Social Justice

2021 ◽  
pp. ajpe8889
Author(s):  
Marie Chisholm-Burns ◽  
Lisa Imhoff ◽  
L’Aurelle Johnson ◽  
Christina Spivey ◽  
Lynda S. Welage
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Call To Action
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