Book Launch: Community Psychology: Global crises, local realities, and action

Authors: Duncan, N., Roos, V. & Pillay J

Date: 2 October 2025

Time: 10:00-14:00

This volume’s precursor, Community Psychology: Analysis, Context, and Action, was published in 2007 and has been updated to reflect the many dramatic events and changes since then. These include the impact of COVID-19, countless disasters related to climate change, rapid technological advances – all events and changes that have impacted the dynamics and wellbeing of communities to varying degrees. Of course, we have also witnessed significant changes in the field of community psychology itself – including changes in its priorities, such as the field’s increasing focus on decolonisation, climate justice, and digital spaces as spaces of community mobilisation. The current volume, Community Psychology: Global Crises, Local Realities, and Action, reflects these changes. This volume was developed with two key objectives in mind. First, with the intention of providing readers with a comprehensive, diverse, and wide-ranging collection of insights, debates, and research on key theoretical, analytical, teaching, learning, and action-oriented approaches in community psychology. Second, the volume was developed with the objective of promoting collaboration among community psychology students, researchers, activists, and others across geographical and national boundaries, given the reality and possibilities of increasing global interconnectedness. Consisting of 17 chapters, the volume is divided into four sections: (1) an introduction, (2) histories of community psychology, (3) salient contemporary issues, such as the dynamics of digital communities, the climate emergency, gendered poverty, houselessness, intergenerational relations, and the impact of race and class on child health, and (4) teaching, learning, research, and other interventions in communities.