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Call for Video

The Community Psychology in the World.

The organizing committee of the 9ICCPP invites the work and research groups of each country to build a video of maximum 3 minutes that talks about Community Psychology in their country. These videos will be presented at the opening of the conference and will allow us to have a global vision of what each reality is building and experiencing within Community Psychology.

Videos should be in mp4 format, preferably in horizontal camera mode, and should not contain sound, music or images copyrighted by third parties

CALL CONFERENCE THEMES

COMMUNITY RE-GENERATION. BONDS AND BRIDGES AMONG PEOPLE AND ENVIRONMENTS

This conference will deal with Community Regeneration and the role of environments and social bonds in shaping hopes and opportunities for the well-being for all people. Community Regeneration will be discussed thoroughly, by rendering it as a process and as a strategy that aims to transform and renovate spaces, buildings and services. Nowadays, Community Psychology as a global academic field and practical challenge has a large task to improve social and environmental justice and individual and collective well-being. A sense of community, social trust and conviviality could be potentially useful boosters for community regeneration and promoting skills and interventions.

1. COMMUNITIES AND PLACES: SYMBOLIC MEANINGS AS A COMPASS FOR COMMUNITY RE-GENERATION

Residential communities and neighborhoods are more than physical environments, their symbolic, affective and identity meanings can be the building blocks of: Community regeneration; Community contexts; Smart communities; Social inclusion; Virtual communities and new forms of social interaction and networking.

2. URBAN RE-GENERATION: CO-CREATING COMMON AND SOCIAL SPACES

Rethinking cities, living spaces and communities creating partnership, social bonds and alliance. Giving meaning to the “social voids” that allow people and communities to reinvent themselves and exercise “the right to the city”. Abandoned buildings, underdeveloped areas, degraded neighborhoods: urban regeneration aims to reinvent the way spaces are used, by modifying space on the basis of community psychology values and methods in order to promote opportunities for people: Well-being and resilience; Partnership and coalitions; Social inclusion; Housing first for the homeless; Re-generation; Regenerating arts (regenerating through arts, arts that regenerate).

3. INTERSECTIONALITY AND SOCIAL CONNECTEDNESS: MAKING COMMUNITIES ACCESSIBLE AND INCLUSIVE

Examining research, practices, projects aimed at creating safe and safety communities and improve well-being and the quality of community life, including: Social inclusion; Black Lives Matters and postcolonial studies; LGBTQI+ communities; Natives and indigenous communities; Well-being/Resilience; Smart communities: Technology and social innovation for community change.

4.EMPOWERING WOMEN AND FIGHTING GENDER BASED VIOLENCE

Examining research, practices, projects aimed at promoting women rights in relationships, families and workplaces contrasting prejudices fighting against violation of women body and gender violence against children (WDV) and women.

5. ORGANIZED CRIME: RESEARCH, INTERVENTION

Engagement with theories and ways of working in order to explain how community intervention facilitates individual empowerment and community resilience; to promote social capital and to fight criminal organizations. Transforming confiscated assets into places of experimentation for new communities and building opportunities and healthy coalition by community regeneration. Enhancing Legality culture, promoting alternative narratives, fighting human trafficking and exploitation, promoting restorative justice for victims, using confiscated assets, boosting social entrepreneurship.

6. COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY, CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL CHALLENGES AND POLICY MAKING

Dealing with sovereignism and populism; promoting mattering, trust and hope; enhancing togetherness; reducing inequality and promoting fairness; youth/education/school; promoting health for all in global perspectives.

7. CLIMATE CHANGE: PROMOTING SOCIETAL TRANSFORMATION AN SMART COMMUNITIES

Addressing climate change: intervention/research/activism; creating spaces and places of belonging and well-being; smart communities; partnership and coalitions; promoting individual and community resilience: prevention and intervention on global scale.

8. MIGRANTS, CHALLENGES AND RESOURCES

Migration represents an ongoing challenge for local and global communities. Migration processes impact identity, social, political and economic aspects with individual and collective effects. The reception dimensions require complex interventions and change processes to which we have to respond and understand taking into account the various subjects involved: Ecological approach to migration; local intervention and community identity; relationships between natives and non-natives; effectiveness of reception and inclusion interventions; inter-sectionality/gender issues; interventions in reception centers are at stake.

9. COMPETENCIES, VALUES AND CRITICAL VISIONS

Activism/volunteering; competence/professional development/methodologies; critical perspective/decolonization.

10. COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY AND EMERGENCY

Examining research, practices, projects about global pandemics and natural diseases effects. Especially Covid 19-syndemic represented for the whole planet a challenge that invited scholars and professionals to rethink style of life and relation needs.