Although critical community psychology (CCP) has embraced several discursive paradigms (e.g., discourse analysis, psychology, and Foucauldian analysis), there remains little CCP work that attempts to conceive of through a poststructuralist lens, lens extends beyond, but certainly does not ignore, the analysis data. In this study, we consider what are calling synthesis theory CCP. Such is one co...

Cultural and community psychology share a common emphasis on context, yet their leading journals rarely cite each other's articles. Greater integration of the concepts of culture and community within and across their disciplines would enrich and facilitate the viability of cultural community psychology. The contextual theory of activity settings is proposed as one means to integrate the concept...

Why an issue devoted to international community psychology? In some ways, such a collection is unnecessary, even for an English language readership. Professional organizations, books, chapters and articles on community psychology appeared as early as the mid-to-late-1970s in Latin America (Montero 1996), the United Kingdom (Bender 1976), Italy (Francescato 1977), and Norway (Grinde 1977). There...

Network analysis holds promise for community psychology given the field's aim to understand the interplay between individuals and their social contexts. Indeed, because network analysis focuses explicitly on patterns of relationships between actors, its theories and methods are inherently extra-individual in nature and particularly well suited to characterizing social contexts. But, to what ext...