Overview
- Addresses issues at the intersection of indigenous psychology, market ideology, values, and technology
- Examines the impact of the forces of technology and the market on indigenous cultures
- Presents an indigenous psychology critique of the role of mainstream psychology in value degradation
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Indigenous Psychology (PASIP)
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Keywords
Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Value Degradation
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Indigenous Psychological Critique
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Traditional Values, the Machine, and the Market
Reviews
"Alvin Dueck and Louise Sundararajan offer a humanistic vision for a new age, a deft balance of alarm and hope. With thoughtful fervor they confront the spiritual vacuity and grotesque indifference of our time, naming a consequence nothing short of human extinction. Yet their masterfully edited volume offers treasures of resources for thinking and living differently, gleaned from an array of cultural and spiritual traditions historically disregarded in the pursuit of “progress.” Individual chapters are vibrant with distinct insights, contributed by experts from diverse perspectives, but the framing provides a cohesive moral structure to the whole. This book is a timely, provocative, unprecedented contribution to psychology and a vital resource for anyone concerned with human values."
(Lisa Osbeck, Professor of Psychology, Department of Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology, University of West Georgia, USA)
"If one has concerns about the future of Indigenous Psychology, one need not worry. This volume connects critical and cultural ideas, advances and stimulates reflection, and provides thought-provoking analyses of the pathologies of the economic, technological, and cultural hegemonic status quo and its course. Indigenous and cultural thinking that considers diversity and inclusion, and articulates the moral and ethical-political dimensions of research and practice, are advanced as sources to contest the many maladies that plague the world. This edited book is a tour de force and shows a wide-ranging research program at its best."
(Thomas Teo, Professor of Psychology, Historical, Theoretical, and Critical Studies of Psychology, York University, Canada)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Louise Sundararajan received her Ph.D. in History of Religions from Harvard University, and her Ed.D. in Counseling Psychology from Boston University, USA. She is founder and chair of the Task Force on Indigenous Psychology, which has grown to have over two hundred researchers from around the globe. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. She has served as past president of the Society for Humanistic Psychology (Division 32 of the American Psychological Association) and is recipient of the Abraham Maslow Award from Division 32 of APA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Values and Indigenous Psychology in the Age of the Machine and Market
Book Subtitle: When the Gods Have Fled
Editors: Alvin Dueck, Louise Sundararajan
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Indigenous Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53196-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-53195-8Published: 08 August 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-53198-9Due: 22 August 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-53196-5Published: 07 August 2024
Series ISSN: 2946-4692
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4706
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVII, 357
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cross Cultural Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology, general, Religious Studies, general, Religion and Psychology