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PAPER – Blak Women’s Healing: Cocreating Decolonial Praxis Through Research Yarns

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Paola Balla, Karen Jackson, Rowena Price, -  Moondani Balluk, Victoria University Amy F. Quayle, and Christopher C. Sonn - Institute for Health and Sport, Victoria University This article is informed…

PAPER – Subjectivities and the Space of Possibilities in Youth Programs: Countering Majoritarian Stories as Social Change in the Australian Context

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Samuel Keast & Christopher  Sonn The status quo of many not-for-profit organisations is well-intentioned service provision often coupled with an absence of critical understanding sustained by the restricting nature of neoliberal…

Book – Decoloniality and Epistemic Justice in Contemporary Community Psychology

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Editors - Garth Stevens & Christopher C. Sonn Examines the ways in which decolonial theory influences knowledge production, praxis and epistemic justice in global contemporary iterations of community psychology Offers a…

PAPER – “Don’t let anybody ever put you down culturally…. it’s not good…”: Creating spaces for Blak women’s healing

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Research has highlighted the importance of Indigenous knowledge and cultural practice in healing from ongoing histories of trauma, dispossession, and displacement for Indigenous peoples in Australia and elsewhere. Connection with culture,…

PAPER – “In this country you can’t … have like a full tradition …, it’s a little bit of everything”: Dialogs of identity for 1.5 and second generations in Australia.

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The experiences of 1.5 and second-generation children of immigrants are often conflated with those of first-generation migrants or collapsed as homogenous within the category of generational status. In this article,…

PAPER – The mining state abroad: The Australian state’s role in the Australian mining industry in the Philippines

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Highlights The Australian state intervenes in the Australian mining industry in the Philippines. States engage with commodity chains at various points outside their territory. The ‘home’ state of a mining…

PAPER – Theater: Engaging in Critical Thinking about Social Justice

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"Political art can educate, evoke emotions, expose relationships of unequal power, and remind people that working towards social change involves a lifelong commitment. In a time when the value of…

BOOK – Places of Privilege

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Places of Privilege: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Identities, Change and Resistance This edited collection, published by Brill,  was developed from a series of thematically linked papers presented at the recent CIDRN/IRN…

BOOK – Criminalizing Children: Welfare and the State in Australia

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David McCallum WINNER 2018 of The Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand (LSAANZ) award for a published scholarly book/monograph Incarceration of children is rising rapidly throughout of Australia,…

PAPER – Lengthy student placements and health and financial wellbeing

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Researchers Lisa Hodge, Nicole Oke, Heather McIntyre, Shelley Turner Project Overview This project explores the financial and other impacts of lengthy, unpaid work-integrated learning (WIL). It aims to build on…

PAPER – Psychology education and the neoliberal episteme in Australia

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New paper in Theory and Psychology by CIDRN researcher Samuel Keast. Abstract This article investigates some of the ways in which neoliberalism and mainstream psychology intersect to maintain a dominant episteme…

PAPER – In between two worlds: Colombian migrants negotiating identity, acculturation, and settlement in Melbourne

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New paper in Qualitative Research by CIDRN by Margarita Fierro Hernandez and Christopher C. Sonn Abstract Latin American immigration experiences have been documented in terms of acculturation, settlement and belonging. While…

PAPER – Voices of displacement: a methodology of sound portraits exploring identity and belonging

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New paper in Qualitative Research by CIDRN by Alison M Baker, Christopher C Sonn and Kirsten Meyer titled “Voices of displacement: a methodology of sound portraits exploring identity and belonging”.…

BOOK – Social Psychology ad Everyday Life (2nd Ed.)

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This ground-breaking and innovative textbook offers a uniquely global approach to the study of social psychology. Inclusive and outward-looking, the authors consciously re-orientate the discipline of social psychology, promoting a…

PAPER – The Performative is Political: Using Counter-Storytelling through Theatre to Create Spaces for Implicated Witnessing

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Project: African Australians negotiating belonging and identity: Examining the role of participatory arts practice Citation: Maxwell, C. (2019). The Performative is Political: Using Counter-Storytelling through Theatre to Create Spaces for Implicated Witnessing (Unpublished masters…