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 >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >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. > > --- from list marxism-psych-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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