Christopher Sonn

Title

Christopher Sonn

Rights

Image used with permission, all rights remain with the author. Photograph credit to Christopher Sonn.

Birthplace

South Africa

Primary Sources

Sonn, C., Agung-Igusti, R., Jayawardana, R., Quayle, A., & Keast, S. (2024). Community arts, decoloniality, and epistemic justice. In B. Christens (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Community Empowerment (pp. 480-503). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009153737

Sonn, C. C., Fernández, J. S., Moura, J. F., Madyaningrum, M. E., & Malherbe, N. (2024). Decolonisation in and Beyond Community Psychologies: A Transnational Plurilogue. In C. C. Sonn, J. S. Fernández, J. F. Moura Jr., M. E. Madyaningrum, & N. Malherbe (Eds.), Handbook of Decolonial Community Psychology (pp. 1–22). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-67035-0_1

Sonn, C. C., Agung-Igusti, R. P., Komba, G., Ruach, R. N., & Deng, E. E. (2024). Freedom dreaming from the university-community nexus: Relational praxis as counterspace. Social And Personality Psychology Compass, 18(7). https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12990

Balla, P., Jackson, K., Price, R., Quayle, A. F., & Sonn, C. C. (2023). Blak women’s healing: Cocreating decolonial praxis through research yarns. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 29(1), 21–30. https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000637.

Sonn, C. C., Fox, R., Keast, S., & Rua, M. (2022). Fostering and sustaining transnational solidarities for transformative social change: Advancing community psychology research and action. American Journal of Community Psychology, 69, 269– 282. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12602

Sonn, C.C & Keast, S. (2022). Subjectivities and the Space of Possibilities in Youth Programs: Countering Majoritarian Stories as Social Change in the Australian Context. The UB Journal of Psychology 52(1), 17-25. https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/Anuario-psicologia/article/view/33231/37743

Sonn, C.C., Quayle, A.F., & Balla, P. (2022). Community Arts For Critical Community Psychology Praxis: Towards Decolonisation And Aboriginal Self-Determination. In Kagan, C., Akhurst, J., Alfaro, J.,R. Lawthom, M. Richards, M., & Zambrano, A., (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook Of Community Psychology: Facing Global Crises With Hope (Pp. 212–226). Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429325663-17/community-arts-critical-community-psychology-praxis-christopher-sonn-amy-quayle-paola-balla

Sonn C.C., Stevens G. (2021). Tracking The Decolonial Turn In Contemporary Community Psychology: Expanding Socially Just Knowledge Archives, Ways Of Being And Modes Of Praxis. In Stevens, G. & Sonn, C.C.(Eds.), Decoloniality And Epistemic Justice In Contemporary Community Psychology (pp. 1–19). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72220-3_1

Sonn, C.C., Kiguwa, P., Arcidiacono, C., Dutta, U., Kloos, B., & Maldonado Torres, N. (2017). Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries: Speaking Back To Critical Knowledges, Liberation, And Community. South African Journal Of Psychology, 47(4), 448–458. https://Doi.Org/10.1177/0081246317737930

Sonn, C.C., Stevens, G., & Duncan, N. (2013). Decolonisation, Critical Methodologies And Why Stories Matter. In Stevens, G. Duncan, N. & Hook, D. (Eds.), Race, Memory And The Apartheid Archive (Pp. 295-314). Palgrave Macmillan. Https://Doi.Org/10.1057/9781137263902_15

Sonn, C. C., & Green, M. J. (2006). Disrupting The Dynamics Of Oppression In Intercultural Research And Practice. Journal Of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 16(5), 337–346. Https://Doi.Org/10.1002/Casp.877

Secondary Sources

Miller, K., Morda, R., & Sonn, C. C. (2024). Tokenistic or transformative? An exploration of culturally safe care in Australian mental health nursing. International Journal of Mental Health, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207411.2024.2304379

Perkins, D. D., Sonn, C. C., Lenzi, M., Xu, Q., Carolissen, R., Portillo, N., & Serrano‐García, I. (2023). The global development of community psychology as reflected in the American Journal of Community Psychology. American Journal of Community Psychology, 72(3-4), 302-316. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12696

Bryant, E., & Sonn, C. (2022). Country and climate: Journeys toward the decolonial option among non-Indigenous climate activists. Psychology in Society, 63 (52-82). https://doi.org/10.57157/pins2022Vol63iss1a5441

Fernández, J. S., Sonn, C. C., Carolissen, R., & Stevens, G. (2021). Roots and Routes Toward Decoloniality Within and Outside Psychology Praxis. Review of General Psychology.  https://doi.org/10.1177/10892680211002437

Extra Resources

Liberation-oriented psychology practice in Australia, Christopher Sonn, Victoria University (November 22, 2019). YouTube. Accessed August 29, 2022. https://youtu.be/dVfo1f11fmc

Decolonial Praxis in Contemporary Global Community Psychology (April 13, 2018). Institute for Social and Health Sciences. YouTube. Accessed August 29, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THODL-7ZqA4

Community Identity and Displacement Network. Accessed June 5, 2023. https://www.communityidentity.com.au/

Professor Christopher Sonn. Victoria University Profile. https://www.vu.edu.au/research/christopher-sonn

Collection

Africa

Citation

“Christopher Sonn,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed December 27, 2024, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/58.

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