Annual Review of Critical Psychology
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The Annual Review of Critical Psychology is the first international peer-reviewed journal in the field of critical psychology
. The managing editor is Ian Parker
, Professor of Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University and co-founder (with Erica Burman
) of the Discourse Unit
. The first issue, on the foundations of critical psychology, was published in 1999 when the field of critical psychology was quite new. Subsequence issues have been on Action research, Anti-Capitalism and Feminisms and Activisms. Starting in 2006, Annual Review of Critical Psychology has been published as an open-access online journal.
Issue number 5, Critical psychology in a changing world: Contributions from different geo-political regions, included the widest-ranging available review of critical psychology around the world, with discussions of the development and prospects for critical psychology in Aotearoa, Austria, Brazil, Britain, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Iceland, India, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, United States and Venezuela. Issue number 6, Asylum and Migration, is currently in process.
Critical psychology
Critical psychology is an approach to psychology that takes a critical theory–based perspective. Critical psychology is aimed at critiquing mainstream psychology and attempts to apply psychology in more progressive ways, often looking towards social change as a means of preventing and treating...
. The managing editor is Ian Parker
Ian Parker (psychologist)
Ian Parker is a British psychologist who has been a principal exponent of three quite diverse critical traditions inside the discipline...
, Professor of Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University and co-founder (with Erica Burman
Erica Burman
Erica Burman is an influential critical development psychologist based in Britain. Her work has been a conceptual resource for critical research in developmental psychology, feminist perspectives on the connections between different forms of oppression, and methodological debates in...
) of the Discourse Unit
Discourse Unit
The Discourse Unit is an international research group that currently has its main base at Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom. It has been one of the most important focal points for the development of critical work in psychology and in other social sciences concerned with...
. The first issue, on the foundations of critical psychology, was published in 1999 when the field of critical psychology was quite new. Subsequence issues have been on Action research, Anti-Capitalism and Feminisms and Activisms. Starting in 2006, Annual Review of Critical Psychology has been published as an open-access online journal.
Issue number 5, Critical psychology in a changing world: Contributions from different geo-political regions, included the widest-ranging available review of critical psychology around the world, with discussions of the development and prospects for critical psychology in Aotearoa, Austria, Brazil, Britain, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Iceland, India, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, United States and Venezuela. Issue number 6, Asylum and Migration, is currently in process.