Considering love: Implications for critical political psychology
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Authors
Malherbe, Nick
Issue Date
2021-04
Type
Article
Language
en
Keywords
Love , Political psychology , Love knowledges , Love ethic , Collective resistance
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Abstract
Within psychology, love is typically understood in fundamentally psychological terms. Even those critical psychologists who have interrogated the sociopolitical dimensions of love seem unable to break from conceptions of love as romantic, familial, and/or private. In this article, I argue that in understanding love as a disposition, rather than a feeling, political psychologists are able to bring nuance to mainstream psychology’s engagement
with the emancipatory potentialities of love while, simultaneously, instating a critical reorientation of political psychology. To this end, I offer two pathways through which political psychologists can work with love: rooting counter-hegemonies in the love ethic, and enunciating love knowledges across contexts. I conclude by reflecting on future directions for critical political psychologists who are concerned with a multifaceted, materialist, psychopolitical and contextually-bound notion of love.
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Citation
Malherbe, N. (2021). Considering love: Implications for critical political psychology. New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 61, 2021,100851, 1–8.
Publisher
Elsevier
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ISSN
0732-118X