Reimagining Black Communities, by Simone Peters
Simone Peters is a PhD student registered in the Psychology Department at the University of Cape Town and a member of the Hub for Decolonial Feminist Psychologies in Africa run by Shose Kessi and Floretta Boonzaier. Living in the Cape Flats, her presentation titled, Reimagining black communities: the power of Black feminism and critical psychology in challenging dominant narratives problematises and challenges the ways in which scholars write about people and their communities, the knowledges that are produced and the implications of such knowledge. Peters proposes Black Feminist Psychology as an intersectional framework that helps shift away from reductionist knowledges but to look at people and communities as complex entities. The symposium was co-hosted by the Hub, the Transdisciplinary African Psychologies Programme Institute for Social and Health Sciences (ISHS) at the University of South Africa (UNISA), the UNISA Research Unit on Men and Masculinities at ISHS, and the Violence, Injury and Peace Research Unit at the South African Medical Research Council.
Simone Peters is a PhD student registered in the Psychology Department at the University of Cape Town and a member of the Hub for Decolonial Feminist Psychologies in Africa run by Shose Kessi and Floretta Boonzaier. Living in the Cape Flats, her presentation titled, Reimagining black communities: the power of Black feminism and critical psychology in challenging dominant narratives problematises and challenges the ways in which scholars write about people and their communities, the knowledges that are produced and the implications of such knowledge. Peters proposes Black Feminist Psychology as an intersectional framework that helps shift away from reductionist knowledges but to look at people and communities as complex entities. The symposium was co-hosted by the Hub, the Transdisciplinary African Psychologies Programme Institute for Social and Health Sciences (ISHS) at the University of South Africa (UNISA), the UNISA Research Unit on Men and Masculinities at ISHS, and the Violence, Injury and Peace Research Unit at the South African Medical Research Council.