Fanon, Foucault, feminisms: Psychoeducation, theoretical psychology, and political change

Political psychology.

UNLABELLED Political psychology is a dynamic field of research that offers a unique blend of approaches and methods in the social and cognitive sciences. Political psychologists explore the interactions between macrolevel political structures and microlevel factors such as decision-making processes, motivations, and perceptions. In this article, we provide a broad overview of the field, beginni...

Becoming-Other: Foucault, Deleuze, and the Political Nature of Thought

In this paper I employ the notion of the ‘thought of the outside’ as developed by Michel Foucault, in order to defend the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze against the criticisms of ‘elitism,’ ‘aristocratism,’ and ‘political indifference’—famously leveled by Alain Badiou and Peter Hallward. First, I argue that their charges of a theophanic conception of Being, which ground the broader political clai...

Karen Horneys theory and Ehsan Tabaris political psychology

Purpose: Ehsan Tabari (1295-1368) was the unmistakable theoretician of the Tudeh party for more than 42 years and was also arrested and imprisoned after the political developments of the 1960s and the arrest of the leaders of this party. Shortly after his arrest in a television program, he said he has turned to Islam by reconsidering his past thoughts. Methodology: This event transformed Tabari...

How Fear Makes the Wolf Look Bigger: Analysis of Foucault, Sandoval, & Fanon in the contemporary process of Graffiti Art

The Political Psychology of Race

As both everyday experience and a wealth of social-scientific data attest, race continues to play an important role in conditioning not only individuals’ life outcomes, but also their social and political attitudes (Dawson, 1994; Kinder & Winter, 2001; Sears, Hetts, Sidanius, & Bobo, 2000; Tate, 1993). In particular, it is clear that identifications and preferences often thought of as purely “p...