01822 a2200145 4500020001800000082002200018100002400040245007200064260005300136300001400189440007300203500003100276520133000307650003901637 a9780367174132 a305.697019bBES-D aBeshara, Robert K.  aDecolonial Psychoanalysis b: Towards Critical Islamophobia Studies bRoutledge Taylor & Francis GroupaNew Yorkc2019 axii,161p. aConcepts for Critical Psychology: Disciplinary Boundaries Re-Thought aIncludes reference & index aIn this provocative and necessary book, Robert K. Beshara uses psychoanalytic discursive analysis to explore the possibility of a genuinely anti-colonial critical psychology. Drawing on postcolonial and decolonial approaches to Islamophobia, this book enhances understandings of Critical Border Thinking and Lacanian Discourse Analysis, alongside other theoretico-methodological approaches. Using a critical decolonial psychology approach to conceptualize everyday Islamophobia, the author examines theoretical resources situated within the discursive turn, such as decoloniality/transmodernity, and carries out an archeology of (counter)terrorism, a genealogy of the conceptual Muslim, and a Zizekian ideology critique. Conceiving of Decolonial Psychoanalysis as one theoretical resource for Critical Islamophobia Studies (CIS), the author also applies Lacanian Discourse Analysis to extracts from interviews conducted with US Muslims to theorize their ethico-political subjectivity and considers a politics of resistance, adversarial aesthetics, and ethics of liberation. Essential to any attempt to come to terms with the legacy of racism in psychology, and the only critical psychological study on Islamophobia in the United States, this is a fascinating read for anyone interested in a critical approach to Islamophobia. aRacism in psychologyvIslamophobia