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COMMUNITY AND CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY:

TOWARDS A LIBERATORY PERSPECTIVE

PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH

SOCIAL SUFFERING, VIOLENCE, AND MEMORY:

HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE

SOCIAL CONTEXTS OF DEVELOPMENT: 

RACE, GENDER, AND SOCIAL SUBJECTIVITIES



COMMUNITY AND CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY: TOWARDS A LIBERATORY PERSPECTIVE

  • Lykes, M.B. & Mallona, A. (in press). Towards transformational liberation: Participatory action research and activist praxis. In P. Reason & H. Bradbury (Eds.), Handbook of Action Research II. Thosand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • Lykes, M.B. & Coquillon, E. (2006). Participatory and Action Research and feminisms: Towards Transformative Praxis. In Sharlene Hesse-Biber (Ed.). Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis. Thosand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • Lykes, M.B. (2006). Forward. In Carlos Martin Beristain. Humanitarian Aid Work: A Critical Approach. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
  • Lykes, M.B. & Mersky, M. (2006). Reparations and mental health: Psychosocial interventions towards healing, human agency, and rethreading social realities. In Pablo de Greiff (Ed.). The Handbook of Reparations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Durand, T. M. & Lykes, M.B. (2006). Think globally, act locally: A global perspective on mobilizing adults for positive youth development. In E. Gil Clary and Jean E. Rhodes (Eds.). Mobilizing Adults for Positive Youth Development: Strategies for Closing the Gap between Beliefs and Behaviors (The Search Institute Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society). New York: Springer. pp. 233-254.
  • Qin, D. & Lykes, M. B. (2006). Reweaving a fragmented web of self: A grounded theory of self-understanding among Chinese women students in USA. International Journal of Qualitative Research in Education, 19(2), 177-200.
  • Lykes, M. B. (2004). Virtues and vocation: Community psychology and social change. In Geoffrey Nelson & Isaac Prilleltensky (Eds.). Community psychology: In pursuit of liberation and well-being. London: Palgrave MacMillan.
  • Ngonyama ka Sigogo, T., Hooper, M., Long, C., Lykes, M.B., Wilson, K. & Zietkiewicz, E. (2004). Chasing rainbow notions: Enacting community psychology in the classroom and beyond in post-1994 South Africa. American Journal of Community Psychology 33(1/2), 77-89.
  • Lykes, M. B. (Fall,2003). Developing an activist liberatory community psychology: One step at a time. The Community Psychologist, 36(4), 39-42.
  • Lykes, M.B., TerreBlanche, M. & Hamber, B. (2003). Narrating survival and change in Guatemala and South Africa: The politics of representation and a liberatory community psychology. American Journal of Community Psychology 31(1/2), 79-90.
  • Lykes, M.B. (2000) Possible contributions of a psychology of liberation: Whither health and human rights? Journal of Health Psychology 5(3), 383-397.
  • Comas-Díaz, L., Lykes, M. B., Alarcón, R. (1998). Ethnic conflict and the psychology of liberation in Guatemala, Perú, and Puerto Rico. American Psychologist, 53(7), 778-792.
  • Lykes, M. B., Banuazizi, A., Liem, R., & Morris, M. (Eds.). (1996). Myths about the powerless: Contesting social inequalities. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. This volume includes an introductory chapter by the four editors and the following original chapters:
    • Lykes, M. B. Meaning making in a context of genocide and silencing.
    • Lykes, M. B. Conversation with William Ryan.
  • Lykes, M.B.(1993). Community research crosses national boundaries: Multiple meanings of long-term residence in particular spaces. American Journal of Community Psychology, 21(4), 487-493.
  • Lykes, M. B. (1990, Octubre-Diciembre). Ignacio Martín-Baró: Un hombre para/dentro de otros: Reflexiones en homenaje a un amigo, colega, y mentor [Ignacio Martín-Baró: A man with/for others]. Revista de Psicología de El Salvador, 38, 370-375.
  • Lykes, M. B., & Hellstedt, J. C. (1987). Field training in community social psychology: A competency based self directed learning model. Journal of Community Psychology, 15, 417 428.
  • Cornwall Collective (Lykes, M. B., & others, Eds.). (1980). Your daughters shall prophesy: Feminist alternatives in theological education. New York: Pilgrim Press. This volume includes the following original chapters:
    • Bosquet, J., Lykes, M. B., & Smith-Penniman, A. (1980). Constituency: What we learn is shaped by those with whom we learn.
    • Lykes, M. B., & Martin, J. (1980). Still making the road as we go.

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PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH

  • Lykes, M.B. & Mallona, A. (in press). Towards transformational liberation: Participatory action research and activist praxis. In P. Reason & H. Bradbury (Eds.), Handbook of Action Research II. Thosand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • Lykes, M.B. & Coquillon, E. (2006). Participatory and Action Resea and feminisms: Towards Transformative Praxis. In Sharlene Hesse-Biber (Ed.). Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis. Thosand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • Lykes, M.B. & Mersky, M. (2006). Reparations and mental health: Psychosocial interventions towards healing, human agency, and rethreading social realities. In Pablo de Greiff (Ed.). The Handbook of Reparations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Qin, D. & Lykes, M. B. (2006). Reweaving a fragmented web of self: A grounded theory of self-understanding among Chinese women students in USA. International Journal of Qualitative Research in Education, 19(2), 177-200.
  • McIntyre, A & Lykes, M.B. (2004). Weaving words and pictures in/through feminist participatory action research. In Mary Brydon-Miller, Patricia Maguire & Alice McIntyre (Eds.). Traveling Companions: Feminisms and Participatory Action Research. pp. 82-111.
  • Williams, J.W. & Lykes, M. B. (2003). Bridging theory and practice: Using reflexive cycles in feminist PAR. Feminism and Psychology, 13(3), 287-294.
  • Lykes, M.B. (2001) Activist participatory research and the arts with rural Maya women: Interculturality and situated meaning making. In Deborah L. Tolman and Mary Brydon-Miller (Eds.), From Subjects to Subjectivities: A Handbook of Interpretive and Participatory Methods. New York: New York University Press, pp. 183-199.
  • Lykes, M. B. (2001). Creative arts and photography in participatory action research in Guatemala. In P. Reason & H. Bradbury (Eds.), Handbook of Action Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage pp. 363-371. Available in Spanish in pdf file. Click here.
  • Women of PhotoVoice/ADMI & Lykes, M.B. (2000). Voces e imágenes: Mujeres Mayas Ixiles de Chajul/Voices and images: Mayan Ixil women of Chajul. Guatemala: Magna Terra. Texts in Spanish and English, with a methodology chapter by Lykes.
  • Haney, W. & Lykes, M. B. (2000). Practice, participatory research and creative research designs: The continuing evolution of ethical guidelines for research. In F. Sherman & B. Torbert (Eds.), Transforming social inquiry, transforming social action: New paradigms for crossing the theory/practice divide in universities and communities. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  • Lykes, M. B. (1997). Activist participatory research among the Maya of Guatemala: Constructing meanings from situated knowledge. Journal of Social Issues, 53(4), 725-746.
  • Brabeck, M. M., et al., including Lykes, M. B. (1997). Changing the culture of the university to engage in outreach scholarship. In R. M. Lerner & L. K. Simon (Eds.), Creating the new outreach university for America’s youth and families: Building university-community collaborations for the twenty-first century. New York: Garland Publishing.
  • Lykes, M. B. (1989). Dialogue with Guatemalan Indian women: Critical perspectives on constructing collaborative research. In R. Unger (Ed.), Representations: Social constructions of gender (pp. 167-185). Amityville, NY: Baywood. [Reprinted in Gergen, M., & Davis, S. (Eds.). (1996). Toward a new psychology of gender: A reader. New York: Routledge.]

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SOCIAL SUFFERING, VIOLENCE, AND MEMORY: HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE

  • Lykes, M.B. (2006). Forward. In Carlos Martin Beristain. Humanitarian Aid Work: A Critical Approach. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
  • Durand, T. M. & Lykes, M.B. (2006). Think globally, act locally: A global perspective on mobilizing adults for positive youth development. In E. Gil Clary and Jean E. Rhodes (Eds.). Mobilizing Adults for Positive Youth Development: Strategies for Closing the Gap between Beliefs and Behaviors (The Search Institute Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society). New York: Springer. pp. 233-254.
  • Lykes, M.B. & Mersky, M. (2006). Reparations and mental health: Psychosocial interventions towards healing, human agency, and rethreading social realities. In Pablo de Greiff (Ed.). The Handbook of Reparations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Lykes, M.B. (2001) A critical re-reading of PTSD from a cross-cultural/community perspective. In Derek Hook and Gillian Eagle (Eds.), Psychopathology and Social Prejudice. Cape Town, South Africa: UCT Press/JUTA, pp. 92-108. Published in Spanish. Click Here. Publicado en español: Una re-interpretación del estrés pos-traumático desde una perspective comunitaria e intercultural. En ECAP (Ed.), Psicología social y violencia política. (2003) Guatemala: Edtiores Siglo Veintiuno, pp. 211-240.
  • Lykes, M. B. (2001). Human rights violations as structural violence. In D.J. Christie, R.V. Wagner & D. DuN. Winter (Eds.), Peace, conflict and violence: Peace psychology for the 21st century. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, pp. 158-167.
  • Michel Fariña, J.J. & Lykes, M.B. (2000). Cuestiones éticas y epistemológicas ante la experimentación psicológica con niños [Ethical and epistemological questions in psychological experiments with children]. En J. J. Michel Fariña & Carlos Guitiérrez (Eds.), La encrucijada de la filiación: Technologías reproductivas y restitución de niños [Childhood at the crossroads: Reproductive technologies and the restitucion of children]. Buenos Aires-Mexico: Grupo Editorial Lumen. pp. 25-31. An earlier version of this text was included in the Actas del Congreso Nacional de Ética. Asociación Argentina de Investigaciones Éticas [Proceedings from the National Ethics Congress. Argentine Association of Ethics in Research]. Buenos Aires: Universidad de Argentina.
  • Lykes, M. B. (1999). Doing psychology at the periphery: Constructing just alternatives to war and peace. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 5(1), 27-36.
  • Arditti, R & Lykes, M.B. (1997). La labor de las Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo [The work of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo]. En Restitución de niños: Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo [Restitution of children: The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo]. Buenos Aires, AR: Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires, pp. 109-132.
  • Lykes, M. B. (1997). Cross-cultural and transnational responses to human rights and mental health [Review of the book Pain and survival: Human rights violations and mental health]. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 3(1), 105-107.
  • Lykes, M. B. (1994). The psychosocial effects of war on children. In A study guide for If the mango tree could speak. Washington, DC: Network Educators of America.
  • Lykes, M. B. (1994). [Review of the book Women and human rights]. Journal of Moral Education, 23(3), 364-366.
  • Lykes, M. B. (1994). Terror, silencing, and children: International multidisciplinary collaboration with Guatemalan Maya communities. Social Science and Medicine, 38(4), 543-552. Available in Spanish in pdf file. Click here.
  • Lykes, M. B., & multiple co-authors. (1994). Trauma psicosocial y adolescentes Latinoamericanos: Formas de accion grupal. [Psychosocial trauma and Latin American youth: Forms of group action]. Santiago, Chile: ILAS.
  • Arditti, R., & Lykes, M. B. (1993). The disappeared children of Argentina: The work of the grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo. In M. Agosin (Ed.), Surviving beyond fear: Women, children, and human rights in Latin America (pp. 168-175). Fredonia, NY: White Pine Press.
  • Lykes, M. B. (1993). "Children in the storm": Psychosocial trauma in Latin America. In M. Agosin (Ed.), Surviving beyond fear: Women, children, and human rights in Latin America (pp. 152-161). Fredonia, NY: White Pine Press.
  • Lykes, M. B. (1993). Niños y violencia política: Dossier temático de acceso bibliográfico [Children and political violence: Review essay and annotated bibliography]. Buenos Aires: CEDDI.
  • Lykes, M. B., Brabeck, M., Ferns, T., & Radan, A. (1993). Human rights and mental health among Latin American women in situations of state sponsored violence: Bibliographic resources. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 17(4), 525-544.
  • Arditti, R., & Lykes, M. B. (1992). "Recovering identity": The work of the grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Women's Studies International Forum, 15(4), 461-471.
  • Lykes, M. B. (1992, Julio-Agosto). Talleres creativos para un trabajo con niños [Creative workshops for working with children]. ASECSA. El Informador Comunitario, 144, 6-8.
  • Melville, M., & Lykes, M. B. (1992). Guatemalan Indian children and the sociocultural effects of government-sponsored terrorism. Social Science and Medicine, 34(5), 533-548.
  • Arditti, R., & Lykes, M. B. (1991). Las abuelas de Plaza de Mayo [The grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo]. In X. Bunster (Ed.), La mujer ausente: Derechos humanos en el mundo [The absent woman: Human rights in the world] (pp. 135-144). ISIS Internacional, Ediciones de las Mujeres, No. 15, Santiago, Chile.
  • Lykes, M. B. (1991). Children in the storm: Communities respond through action-research. The
    Community Psychologist
    , 25(1), 11-13.
  • Lykes, M. B., Maciel, R., Iborra, M., Suardi, L., & Costa, E. (1991). Jugando a recrear nuestra historia [Playing to recreate our history]. In E. G. Mendez & M. del Carmen Bianchi (Eds.), Ser niño en America Latina [To be a child in Latin America] (pp. 369-373). Buenos Aires: UNICEF.
  • Lykes, M. B. (1990, October). War tears at children's emotions. Response Magazine, United Methodist Church, 25-29.
  • Lykes, M. B., & Liem, R. (1990). Human rights and mental health work in the United States: Lessons from Latin America. Journal of Social Issues, 46(3), 151-165.
  • Arditti, R., & Lykes, M. B. (1989). The missing children of Argentina. Sojourner: The Women's Forum, 14(5), 17-18.
  • Lykes, M. B., & Fariña, J. J. (1989). Can the unofficial story have a happy ending? The restitution of children in Argentina. LINKS: Central America Health Report, 6(1), 10-11.

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SOCIAL CONTEXTS OF DEVELOPMENT:  RACE, GENDER, AND SOCIAL SUBJECTIVITIES

  • Qin, D. & Lykes, M. B. (2006). Reweaving a fragmented web of self: A grounded theory of self-understanding among Chinese women students in USA. International Journal of Qualitative Research in Education, 19(2), 177-200.
  • Durand, T. M. & Lykes, M.B. (2006). Think globally, act locally: A global perspective on mobilizing adults for positive youth development. In E. Gil Clary and Jean E. Rhodes (Eds.). Mobilizing Adults for Positive Youth Development: Strategies for Closing the Gap between Beliefs and Behaviors (The Search Institute Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society). New York: Springer. pp. 233-254.
  • De Jesus, Maria & Lykes, M.B. (2004). Racism and “whiteness” in transitions to peace: Indigenous peoples, human rights, and the struggle for justice. In Michelle Fine, Lois Weis, Linda Powell and April Burns (Eds.). (2nd ed.). Off White: Readings in power, privilege, and resistance. Taylor & Francis, pp. 331-344.
  • Lykes, M.B. & Qin, D. (2001). Individualism and collectivism. Encyclopedia of Gender. Editor in Chief: Judith Worrell. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, pp. 625-631.
  • Lykes, M. B. (1999), in collaboration with A. Caba Mateo, J. Chávez Anay, I. A. Laynez Caba, U. Ruiz and Joan W.Williams. Telling stories – rethreading lives: Community education, women’s development and social change among the Maya Ixil. International Journal of Leadership in Education: Theory and Practice, 2(3), 207-227. Published in Spanish. Publicado en español: Contando historias – Reconectando vidas: Educación comunitaria, desarrollo de la mujer y cambio social entre los Maya Ixil. En ECAP (Ed.), Psicología social y violencia política. (2003) Guatemala: Edtiores Siglo Veintiuno, pp. 327-358.
  • McIntyre, A., & Lykes, M. B. (1998). Who’s the boss? Confronting whiteness and power differences within a feminist mentoring relationship in participatory action research. Feminism and Psychology, 8(4), 427-444.
  • Lykes, M. B., & Mallona, A. (1996). Surfacing our-selves: ¿Gringa, white - mestiza, brown? In M. Fine, M. Wong, L. Weis, & M. Powell (Eds.), Off-white. New York: Routledge.
  • Lykes, M. B. (1995). La voluntad de resistir: La conservacion del "self" y la cultura guatemalteca [The will to resist: Preservation of self and culture in Guatemala]. Psique y Sociedad, 2(1,2).
  • Lykes, M. B. (1994). Speaking against the silence: One Maya woman's exile and return. In C. E. Franz & A. J. Stewart (Eds.), Women creating lives: Identities, resilience, and resistance. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
  • Lykes, M. B. (1994). I. Whose meeting at which crossroads? A Response to Brown and Gilligan. Feminism and Psychology, 4(3), 345-349.
  • Lykes, M. B. (1993). [Review of the book Gender constructs and social issues]. Contemporary Psychology, 38(8), 868-869.
  • Lykes, M. B. (1991). Perspectives on gender: Difference, disadvantage, or dominance? [Review
    of the books Making a difference and Theoretical perspectives on sexual difference]. Contemporary Psychology, 36(12), 1072-1073.
  • Lykes, M. B. (1989). The caring self: Social experiences of power and powerlessness. In M. Brabeck (Ed.), Who cares? Theoretical and ethical perspectives (pp. 164-179). New York: Praeger.
  • Lykes, M. B., & Stewart, A. J. (1986). Evaluating the feminist challenge in personality and social psychology: 1963 1983. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 10(4), 393-412.
  • Stewart, A. J., & Lykes, M. B. (Eds.). (1985). Gender and personality. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Personality, 53(2), with two original chapters:
    • Stewart, A. J., & Lykes, M. B. Conceptualizing gender in personality theory and research: An introduction.
    • Lykes, M. B. Gender and individualistic versus collectivist notions about the self.
  • Lykes, M. B. (1983). Discrimination and coping in the lives of Black women: Analyses of oral history data. Journal of Social Issues, 39(3), 79-100.
  • Stewart, A. J., Lykes, M. B., & LaFrance, M. (1982). Educated women's career patterns: Separating social and developmental changes. Journal of Social Issues, 38(1), 97-117.

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