12: Assembling Decolonial Anti-Racist Praxis from the Margins: Reflections from Critical Community Psychology

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In this chapter, I use testimonio, which is a form of personal writing used to witness experiences, to reflect on efforts to create a critical community psychology praxis for anti-racism in Australia and elsewhere. I draw on my experiences as a migrant, researcher and educator in community psychology, a sub-discipline committed to empowerment and social justice, to show how we have sought to tackle racism, racialization and coloniality in teaching and within the practices and processes of knowledge production anchored in Eurocentrism, colonialism and white supremacy. I suggest that decolonial standpoints – that is, critical engagement with lived experience and subjectivity in and through racialized power relations – along with practices of deconstruction, recovery of collective memory and epistemic inclusion, are vital to anti-racist practice.

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