Trust the process: Community health psychology after Occupy

Cornish, Flora; Montenegro, Cristian; van Reisen, Kirsten; Zaka, Flavia; Sevitt, James

Abstract

This article argues that community health psychology's core strategy of community mobilisation' is in need of renewal and proposes a new way of conceptualising community health action. Taking the Occupy movement as an example, we critique modernist understandings of community mobilisation, which are based on instrumental action in the service of a predetermined goal. Aiming to re-invigorate the process' tradition of community health psychology, we explore possibilities of an open-ended, anti-hierarchical and inclusive mode of community action, which we label trusting the process'. The gains to be made are unpredictable, but we suggest that the risk is worth taking.

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Título según WOS: ID WOS:000328727100006 Not found in local WOS DB
Título de la Revista: JOURNAL OF HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY
Volumen: 19
Número: 1
Editorial: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
Fecha de publicación: 2014
Página de inicio: 60
Página final: 71
DOI:

10.1177/1359105313500264

Notas: ISI