Critical Transformative Praxis Research Collective

The Critical Transformative Praxis Research Collective (CTPRC) is a participatory and community-engaged research collective. Rooted in abolition, transformation, and radical care, we ground our praxis in relational and epistemological resistance.

Our research theorizes, documents, bears witness to, and catalyzes social transformations in our everyday praxis in collaboration with community organizers and grassroots activists.

Areas of Focus

• participatory research and community theorizing
• community driven knowledge synthesis
• mutual aid, abolition, transformation, community organizing, grassroots activism, and social movements

Collaborators

• Dr. Natalie Kivell, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo Ontario
• Dr. Chris Sonn, Victoria University, Melbourne Australia: Community and Identity and Displacement Research Network and the Moondani Balluk Indigenous Academic Unit
• Dr. Michelle Fine, City University New York (CUNY): The Public Science Project
• Dr. Garth Stevens, Wits University, Johannesburg South Africa: The Apartheid Archive Project

Indaba: A Global Critical Community Psychology Podcast

Indaba is a global podcast that brings together scholars, practitioners, and activists as they re-imagine and reconstruct how relating to and living in the world. Rooted in a Critical Community psychology, an interdisciplinary social science driven by social justice and decolonial values, the show explores methodological, theoretical, and practical knowledge that informs social change practice. Indaba is a South African Indigenous term for a meeting and the show fosters a coming together to share and engage with ideas with a collective of voices from around the world. Curated into five pairs of episodes exploring our everyday praxis, each beginning with a contextually grounded storytelling episode followed by a critical reflection dialogue with members of Indaba’s global collective including South Africa, Indonesia, Chile, Australia, Palestine, and Canada.

Transcripts and French and Spanish translations are also available.

Season 2 coming in late 2026: “Palestine as a Throughline of Resistance and Refusal: Knowledge Exchange through a Global Critical Community Psychology Podcast”