Understanding, Resisting, and Overcoming Oppression: Toward Psychopolitical Validity

• DOI: 10.1023/a:1023043108210
• Publication Date: 2003-04-07T22:17:24Z
• Authors: Isaac Prilleltensky
• Keywords: Oppression; Transformative Learning

My first objective in this paper is to synthesize, synoptically, the literature on oppression and liberation with contributions special issue. To fulfil aim I introduce a framework for understanding, resisting, overcoming oppression. The consists of psychopolitical well-being; experiences, consequences, sources oppression; actions toward liberation. Each these components subdivided into 3 domains well-being: collective, relational, personal. Experiences suffering as well resistance agency are part framework. second offer ways closing gap between research action do so suggest 2 types validity: epistemic transformative.