Main description:

This book brings together a selection of theoretical reflections, empirical researches and professional experiences to showcase the increasing production of psychological studies in rural contexts developed in Latin America in recent years. Psychology's tradition of science and eminently urban profession has produced a void of reflections and approaches on important actors of the societies that constitute their existence in rural contexts and in relation - whether of integration, conflicts and contradictions - with urban agents. But a new generation of psychologists are turning their attention to rural contexts, especially in Latin America.

This volume aims to present a selection of these psychological studies and interventions developed in rural contexts from a psychosocial and interdisciplinary perspective, developed together with various social actors who live and work in rural spaces, that have an important relationship with land and nature both in terms of the elaboration of their history, the production of their subjectivities and identity ties with the territory, and the engagement in struggles for the right to land and for public policies that guarantee access to education and health services, technical assistance and infrastructure for its working activities.

The book is divided in five parts, each one dedicated to a dimension of psychosocial studies and interventions in rural contexts: theoretical approaches; mental health and rural populations; social movements, communities and resistance practices; gender relations and subjectivation processes; and environment and sustainability. Chapters in each axis prioritize reports of experiences and research conducted with participatory approaches, producing new perspectives and reflections that contribute to the advancement of knowledge in the field of psychology, both regionally and globally.

Contents:

PART I - INTRODUCTION

1. Psychology and Rural Contexts: Psychosocial Dialogues

2. Rural Psychology: Literature Review, Reasons for its Need, and Challenges

PART II - MENTAL HEALTH AND RURAL POPULATIONS

3. Working with Use of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs in Rural Communities

4. Racially Stigmatized Populations, Necropolitics and Mental Health in Rural Contexts

5. Psychology in Rural Contexts: An Experience of Mental Health Specialized Support to Family Health Teams

6. Suicide in The Iny Population: Between the Spell and The Disarrangement of "Desire"

7. Alcohol, Drugs and Indigenous Communities: Report of a Psychosocial Intervention

8. For a Non-Parasitic Life: Resistance and Creation in Rural Communities of Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil

PART III - SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, COMMUNITIES AND RESISTANCE PRACTICES

9. Sense of Us in the Face of the Pandemic: A Psychosocial and Community Approach

10. Quilombola Communities in Brazil: Advances and Struggles in The Face of Setbacks Experienced in The Current Neoliberal Scenario

11. Artisanal Fishing Work: The Aesthetics of Art and Ethics of The Common

12. Urban and Rural Articulations in an Agro-Ecological Space in the Brazilian Northeast

13. 'The Work That Makes One Live Alive': The Meanings of Work for Rural Settlers

PART IV - GENDER RELATIONS AND SUBJECTIVATION PROCESSES

14. Poverty and Social Support: An Analysis of Women Living in Rural Communities

15. Women in Movement and The Reinvention of Existence: Political Action, Agency and Subjectivation Processes

16. Indigenous Women as Political Subjects in Brazil

17. Decolonial Understandings of Young Homosexual Rural Men's Ways of Life: Insurgencies and Disobediences

PART V - ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY

18. Rural Territories and Life Production: approaches from Environmental Psychology

19. Assembly of the Knowledge Landscape: A Social Technology for Health Care and The Enhancement of The Way of Life in Amazonian Riverine Communities

20. Human-Wildlife Interactions and Rural Environmental Psychology in Mexico

21. Transitioning Ruralities: Migration Processes and Emerging Socioenvironmental Spaces