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Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 07:29:46 +0100
From: Chris Burford <cburford-AT-gn.apc.org>
Subject: M-PSY: Bounced Announcement


>From: owner-marxism-psych-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
>To: marxism-psych-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu
>From: "Ian A Parker" <i.a.parker-AT-bolton.ac.uk> (by way of Anthony Collins
<anti-AT-cats.ucsc.edu>)
>Subject: CPARjournal
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>JOURNAL PROPOSAL:  
>International Journal of Critical Psychology and Action Research
>Please circulate this to anyone or anylist that may be interested,
>thanks, Ian.  See notes on responses to this at the end of the
>message.
>
>Aims and scope of the journal: 
>This international journal will provide a forum to discuss ways of
>changing communities, institutions and social relations through
>varieties of action research, and to critically reflect on how
>psychology needs to change to be up to the task.  The journal will
>encompass theories, methods and examples of action research in
>psychology.  Papers will focus on issues of conscientization,
>education inclusion, feminist research, mental health intervention and
>radical therapeutic activities.  The journal will present open
>accessible accounts of theoretical perspectives, and assessments of
>ongoing action research projects.  Its watchwords will be 'reflection'
>and 'intervention'.  Contributions will be expected to pay attention
>to relations of class, cultural and gender inequality, and to the role
>of psychology in their reproduction and transformation.  Standard
>journal length articles will be supplemented by shorter pieces.  It
>will appear three times a year.
>
>International Journal of Critical Psychology and Action Research will
>publish scholarly papers which provide reflection upon and
>intervention into theories and practices in psychology, and upon the
>contribution of critical psychology to committed and reflexive action
>research.  This will be an international journal, providing an
>opportunity for readers to learn about theoretical frameworks and
>practical initiatives around the world.  Its board members,
>contributors and readers will be from different countries and cultural
>backgrounds, and this will also be reflected in the variety of topics
>and critical vantage points in the articles.  The journal will be
>designed to operate as a space for discussion of progressive
>innovations in psychological practice.  This space will be open to
>those in related spheres of work, and to those who are recipients of
>psychology services.  The journal will support the systematic
>demystification of the expertise claimed by those who call themselves
>'psychologists' and the power exercised by them.  The journal will
>encourage positive reviewing, which aims to provide constructive
>feedback to intending authors.  A number of articles will be
>commissioned for specific issues, and proposals will be invited for
>special issues devoted to particular themes or contemporary
>theoretical and practical research concerns.
>
>Format:  
>The journal will link debates and practices in the discipline and
>institutions of psychology with critical reflection on theory and
>activity.  Contributions will be expected to pay attention to
>relations of class, cultural and gender inequality, and to the role of
>psychology in their reproduction and transformation.  All
>contributions should be typed double-spaced throughout on one side of
>A4 white paper.  Contributors should indicate whether they would
>prefer the paper to undergo anonymous review, in which case the
>manscript should include two title pages, one with identifying
>information and one with a title only.  Authors are encouraged to
>supply the names of two potential referees, and these referees may be
>called upon in addition to those of the editors' choosing. 
>International Journal of Critical Psychology and Action Research
>adheres to the publication style of the American Psychological
>Association.  All manuscripts require an abstract of 100-150 words
>typed on a separate sheet of paper at the beginning of the manuscript.
> References should be presented in the text by author and date and be
>collated into a reference list at the end of the article with the
>following information: author(s), year of publication, title, place of
>publication and publisher.  Authors should send a brief biography,
>50-70 words, with a full mailing address, an electronic-mail address
>if applicable, and phone and fax numbers.  Four copies of the
>manuscript, which should normally be between 5000 and 8000 words in
>length, should be submitted.
>
>Case studies: These pieces should review of the role of psychology in
>different cultural and political settings, an attention to training
>and service provision, or a review of the alternative ways of
>conceptualising psychological knowledge.  The journal will have an
>'international' identity, and each issue will include a focus on
>psychology in a particular country or part of the world.
>
>Conditions of practice: These articles should focus on contemporary
>community, governmental or institutional changes that affect
>psychologists or those who use psychological services.  To avoid
>duplication, intending authors working on material for this section
>should contact the journal editor in advance.
>
>Popular psychology: Articles for this section of the journal should
>explore the ways in which psychological accounts are developed in
>everyday life which either draw upon mainstream academic and
>professional psychology or which contradict and challenge the
>discipline.  Self-help, therapeutic and 'new age' theories of the mind
>and society could be reviewed, as could the percolation of
>'scientific' theories into communities.
>
>
>Critical assessments: These pieces should focus upon clearly delimited
>concepts or theoretical frameworks in psychology, and they should be
>densely referenced so that they may operate as a resource for critical
>student or action research psychologists, or users of psychological
>services.  Articles should include, in roughly equal proportions, a
>review of the historical roots of the concept or framework, a
>comprehensive review of the current state of research and theory, a
>review of a variety of critical perspectives, and an assessment of the
>current status of the concept or framework and the critiques.  To
>avoid duplication, intending authors working on material for this
>section should contact the journal editor well in advance.
>
>Reviews: Reviews of books and journals will be commissioned by the
>reviews editor.  Intending reviewers should send a brief biography,
>50-70 words, with a full mailing address, an electronic-mail address
>if applicable, and phone and fax numbers.  The journal would expect
>that commissioned reviews be supplied within two months.  Reviews will
>include: (i) books that work in perspectives allied to those adopted
>by the journal (and since the journal encourages critical reviews of
>critical books, in these cases, two reviews from different critical
>traditions will be commissioned and published); and (ii) important
>books that have made an impact on academic and/or professional
>psychologists or users of services (and so these reviews will be
>commissioned a year or two after the book has first appeared).
>
>Audience:  
>The audience for this journal will be diverse, linking critical
>psychologists in community, education, clinical, management or
>occupational settings with those in other disciplines (such as
>sociology and cultural theory) and professions (such as social work
>and psychiatry), as well as with those who use psychology services.  
>
>Academic Market in Psychology:  
>The journal addresses the concerns of many working in innovative
>conceptual and methodological debates in psychology, including those
>writing and reading about social constructionism, discourse, feminist
>theory, culture and qualitative research.  The journal does not
>presuppose an allegiance to any particular psychological theoretical
>framework or methodology, however, and will include examples and
>critical reflection on any psychological activity or approach
>concerned with change.  A range of professionals - such as educational
>welfare officers, social workers and community workers - that employ
>psychological knowledge, but have little opportunity to reflect upon
>how it functions and how it can be challenged would be included in the
>audience.  Users of the different services that psychologists and
>allied professions are involved in would be addressed, and included in
>writing articles.  
>
>The journal will occupy a terrain in the existing journal market
>(perhaps with advertising arrangements with these), consisting of the
>following: Changes (the journal of the Psychology and Psychotherapy
>Association, which is open to user's views but which has a commitment
>to therapeutic developments); Open Mind (published by MIND, with a
>wide audience, but which operates as a newletter); Asylum (with a
>shared purpose, but one closely identified with the anti-psychiatry
>and democratic psychiatry movement); Feminism & Psychology (which
>includes the critical remit of this journal, but which is both
>committed to publishing psychological research and is defined by the
>contribution of women to issues of gender); Critical Social Policy
>(which addresses some issues of practice and service provision, but
>without a specific psychological remit); Race and Class (with a
>similar critical impulse, but not often specifically related to
>psychology, and devoted to issues of racism and culture); Psychology
>in Society (with a concern with the location of psychology in social
>context, but with a specific focus on events and institutions in South
>Africa); Nordiske Udkast (which brings together psychologists and
>other social researchers in Scandinavia).
>
>Institutional Resource Base:  
>The day-to-day management of the journal will be at Bolton Institute. 
>The Institute is becoming well-known nationally and internationally
>for work in the field of critical psychology and action research.  The
>Institute is the base for the Action Research Centre for Education
>Inclusion (which currently receives funding from the Cadbury trust),
>the interdisciplinary Discourse Network, and the Discourse Unit (which
>is part of the tri-institutional Discourse Unit with The Manchester
>Metropolitan University and the University of Bradford).  
>
>An international conference on 'Critical Psychology & Action Research'
>is scheduled for July 1998, with invited speakers from Europe and from
>North and South America.  There will be keynote talks, individual
>papers, symposia and workshops.  The conference will encompass
>theories, methods and examples of action research.  Plenary sessions
>with guest speakers will focus on issues of conscientization,
>education, inclusion campaigns, feminist research, mental health
>intervention and radical therapeutic activities.  
>
>The conference will be followed by the annual conference and networks
>festival of Psychology Politics Resistance in Bolton or Manchester. 
>PPR is a network of over 600 people - both psychologists and
>non-psychologists - who are prepared to oppose the abusive uses of
>psychology.  PPR was successfully founded as a network in 1994, and
>links many organizations that challenge varieties of oppression in
>psychology services, whether psychology is being used in educational,
>occupational, nursing, social work, clinical, psychiatric,
>psychotherapeutic or community work.  There are PPR link persons in
>different countries, including Australia and South Africa.
>
>An MSc Critical Psychology by distance learning and based on campus at
>Bolton Institute is scheduled to start here in October 1998.  If this
>initiative is successfully validated, it will be possible for students
>anywhere in the world to register for this MSc and to take modules and
>study for a dissertation in critical psychology through use of key
>texts, reading packs and electronic contact. The programme at Bolton
>will be linked to the two existing open seminar series (Critical
>Psychology, seminars reflecting on the theory and practice of the psy-
>complex, and Human Sciences Seminar, research meetings exploring
>critical theoretical debates in the human sciences and focusing on
>language, subjectivity and practice) and to the annual research
>methods training course.
>
>Editorial:  
>The managing editor of the journal, Ian Parker, is Professor of
>Psychology at Bolton Institute.  He has lectured on critical
>perspectives in psychology in Australia, Catalunya, Chile, Finland,
>France, Germany, India, Norway, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Spain, the
>United States and Venezuela.  He is author and co-author of six books,
>and has edited and co-edited six books.
>
>Editorial area groups in different areas will be established to
>commission, review and edit submissions to the journal.  We will need
>North American editors and subscription base.  At this stage, we are
>gathering suggestions as to who may be involved.
>
>What next?  
>Before contacting publishers about this project, we would like you to
>register interest in the journal by sending an email message -- which
>should say (i) whether you are personally interested in the journal
>and may be prepared to be a supporting subscriber, and (ii) whether
>you would be able to get your institution to take out a subscription
>to the journal.  Send your response to:  I.A.Parker-AT-Bolton.ac.uk, with
>'CPAR Journal' in the subject header.
>
>



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