Dear Dr. Harré and Community Psychology Network members,
I would like to respond to the debate about Transition Towns a few
months ago and this is my first post on this list. I have been working
during my PhD on Transition Towns as a community challenge to
relationships enhancement and to counter elements of capitalism. My
work settled at a community level analysis of a case study: the first
Italian Transition Town (5000 inhabitants) that adopted the principles
of the movement through the local council in a formal resolution (n.
92/2009).
As far as I could analyze, the institutional level is not enough and
?changing others?, as said, is only a part of the change. From my
findings, it seemed that the fundamental basis for a long term
community development in a proactive direction, and further social
change, relies on a personal change, the so called INNER TRANSITION,
and on communities? capabilities to focus on their intragroup
relations. Otherwise, the transition group risks reflecting the same
problems of interpersonal communication and relation as the wider
society it challenges. This is due to processes that are unavoidable
inside a community, often referred in our discipline as: collective
unconscious, shadow processes (such as: anti-group or anti-community),
which appear together with the existence of a group or community.
To help communities and individuals to face these undermining
processes, community psychologists and communication facilitators have
the potential to contribute a lot.
I am looking forward to working more on the issue, although I am
struggling to find a post doc position or fellowship to do so.
If anyone has any suggestions, I would be happy to hear them.
I look forward to ongoing debates about the challenges of working in
partnerships in community settings.
Kind regards,
Anna Zoli, PhD Europaeus
Human Sciences, Behavior and Social Relations Sciences
Dep. of Political Sciences, Communication and International Relations
University of Macerata, Italy
Fellowship 2013 at York St. John University, Faculty of Health & Life
Sciences, York, UK
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Citando "Jacqueline Akhurst (J.Akhurst)" <[log in to unmask]>:
> Dear all,
> The thread below might be of interest ...
> Regards,
> Jacqui
>
> From: The UK Community Psychology Discussion List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Niki Harre
> Sent: 12 February 2014 01:45
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [COMMUNITYPSYCHUK] Transition Towns and levels of transformation
>
> Hi everyone
> I am very interested in the role of Transition Towns - being a
> member of one in NZ, and the levels at which transformation
> should/must occur in order to shift the social system as a whole.
> Our TT struggles quite a bit with this - the remit is to change how
> we use energy (that little thing) which is utterly overwhelming and
> seems pretty much impossible in a suburban setting. So we've moved
> away from that as a key focus. Still we feel we should be changing
> "others" - the physical infrastructure (e.g. bike lanes),
> institutions (e.g. supermarket alternatives) and, I guess the minds
> and voting choices of our neighbours. I am coming to wonder if
> transformation requires more personal change and if TT are best
> focusing on their relationships with each other and building an
> attractive possibility for a new way of living. I am just not sure
> if you can change a capitalist/individualist/money-hungry society by
> only focusing on institutions and outward practices and not also
> considering our interpersonal relationships and maybe even our own
> "personal growth" (am struggling for a term I think you'll object to
> less but stumped...). If you've read the Hunger Games books you'll
> be familiar with its critique on any form of war - an age old
> theme, but a good one. Can we use the master's tools to dismantle
> the master's house (i.e. "taking" power and focusing on the
> behaviour of others) rather than really practicing a new world -
> at least as much as we can?
> Best
> Niki
>
> Niki Harré
> School of Psychology, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019
> Room 657, Human Sciences Bldg, 10 Symonds St
> Auckland 1142
> Phone +64-9-9238512
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> From: The UK Community Psychology Discussion List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Annie Mitchell
> Sent: Saturday, 8 February 2014 5:29 a.m.
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Pub talk about DSM
>
> Hi John,
>
> Great thanks for sharing the slides. So good. And pubs democratising ...
>
> Yes 'm on ambivalent edge or our TTs here in Devon.... - risk of
> individualising and distracting from social inequalities and
> economics underpinning , yet also providing a shared framework for
> articulating and beginning to activate political pressure for
> action...- attached are the notes for a talk / workshop I;ve given
> for a few Transition Town / Café Scientifiques in Devon on
> psychologies of change and climate change. My experience is that
> many people are interested in a message that joins the strands...
> making personal /political links. There's an interesting climate
> change person here in Devon done some great visuals and is
> convincing re scope for hope with the new technologies and for
> clarifying the and articulating the democratic and business
> interest economics of the issues: http://www.carbonvisuals.com/
>
> Annie
>
>
>
> From: The UK Community Psychology Discussion List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of McGowan, John
> ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>)
> Sent: 07 February 2014 11:58
> To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: [COMMUNITYPSYCHUK] Pub talk about DSM
>
> Hi Annie,
>
> We have some audio slides from an earlier time we did it in Sussex.
> See below.
>
> http://discursiveoftunbridgewells.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/is-life-disease.html
>
> A pub turns out to be a great place to have these kinds of
> discussions. Doesn't quite iron out power differentials but there is
> a sense in which everyone seems a bit more like a punter.
>
> I think in the talk we're trying to capture both ends of it. The
> value the a lot of people place on diagnosis (all of us are vested
> interests perhaps) and why but the limits of that and the huge
> problems it raises. Trying to draw people into the discussion a bit.
> Feelings run so high that sometimes communication feels difficult
> when these areas are raised.
>
> The ecocide site is interesting thanks. Draws attention to a lot of
> important stuff. I also wonder though (and this is completely
> separate point) about what anti-environmental behaviours are and how
> we should judge them (after all the pressure to maintaining cheap
> oil prices is complicated and the results not always bad).
> Something lie the Transition Town movement (am I right in
> remembering you've had some involvement in it) is interesting in
> this regard. I worry a bit that my local TT branch frequently
> conflates behaviours that feel moral (local currency or people
> making sourdough bread or whatever) with things that might be
> effective. A whole other story though.
>
> BW
>
> John
>
>
> From: The UK Community Psychology Discussion List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Annie Mitchell
> Sent: 06 February 2014 13:26
> To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: [COMMUNITYPSYCHUK] Pub talk about DSM
>
> Sounds so good -
>
> I;e been thinking if we used a social disease metaphor, what would
> be the cultural disease label that would label political climate
> change denial madness or some such.
>
> I;ts up in my awareness today, marooned in Devon with the UK
> southwest peninsula railway ie most of Devon and all of Cornwall
> cut off from the rest of the land at least the next 6 weeks
> following unprecedented coastal storm and floodcdamage,
>
> The human rights lawyer Polly Higgins is working at an international
> level to get the crime ecocide on the international law stature
> books. What might a social psychological parallel look like _ I
> suppose Oliver james calls it affluenza but there is a risk of
> individualising it... - do we need a sort of anti-DSM at a global
> level about collective madness... ..
>
> See http://eradicatingecocide.com/
>
> Annie
>
>
>
>
>
> From: The UK Community Psychology Discussion List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of McGowan, John
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> Sent: 06 February 2014 13:08
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> Subject: [COMMUNITYPSYCHUK] Pub talk about DSM
>
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> Some list member in the Kent and Sussex areas area might finds this
> of interest. Anne Cooke and I are giving our pub talk 'Is Life a
> Disease?' about psychiatric diagnosis and the DSM5 in Tunbridge
> Wells on the 6th of March. Full details are in that link below.
>
> http://tunbridgewells.skepticsinthepub.org/Event.aspx/1893/Is-Life-a-Disease
>
> BW
>
> John
>
>
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