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. Christens., B. (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

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.Moura, J.Serrano G., Torres, Blanca I and O., Blanca (2022). Global perspectives and experiences of community psychologists for the promotion of social change and the construction of radical solidarities. Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice, 13 (2). pp. 1-17. ISSN 2163-8667

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., Agung-Igusti, R., Keast, S., and Quayle, A.(2020). Unsettling psychology: Whiteness and the cost to black lives. InPsych, 42 (4). pp. 16-21. ISSN 1441-8754

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

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.

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 Psychologyhttps://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

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Citation

“Christopher Sonn,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed April 11, 2025, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/58.

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