Professing: Dennis Fox's Home Page

critiquing mainstream psychology's support for an unjust status quo

academic and political
intersections

Blog
informal
personal/political
observations

Photos
some political,
most not

Why this site?

This site connects my academic, political, and personal worlds. I offer more argument than data. Please email your comments and questions.

For now, the Internet lets us bypass mainstream gatekeepers to communicate critical views and organize politically. It expands our interactions beyond the few who read academic or political journals. And it allows us to distribute information quickly.

However: the Internet also provides more power to those who already have too much. This is true of most technology, even forms that seem useful for radical and progressive purposes. It's hard to know, in the long run, whether the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. Already we've seen governments around the world try to shut down the Internet to disrupt activist organizing.

critical psychology
- Critical Psychology: An Introduction (2nd edition, edited book 2009) (1st edition 1997)
- Critical and Radical Psychology (2012 encyclopedia entry)
- personal connections with critical psychology (2000 chapter)
the problem with law
- nature of law from anarchist-psychological justice-focused perspective (1993 article)
- legitimacy survives: too bad! (2000 column)
anarchism and psychology
- Anarchism and Psychology (2011 article)
- Anarchism (2014 encyclopedia entry)
- Reflections on Occupying (2011 article)
- individuality and mutuality in context of global/environmental problems (1985 article, early treatment of many themes explored since then)
- critical psychology, anarchism, law, and more (2004 interview)
- Polyamory Psychology and Politics (2013 discussion session)
academic life
- academic pressures toward trivial research and publication (1983 article)
- transition of my former workplace from "radical university" to servant of the corporate state (2000 article)
political issues
- Israel and Palestine [related: blog & Israel/Palestine Photo Galleries]
- Social Security Administration's mental disability evaluation (1994 paper)
- the problem with corporations (1996 article)
- corporate interests in high-stakes testing (2000 column)
the personal and the political
- exploring alternative approaches to relationships, sexuality, and communication (2015 conference paper)
- my daughter's education (2002 personal essay)
reading suggestions

Audio & Video Elsewhere

Anarchism and Psychology. 2011 [YouTube video of conference presentation: part 1 - part 2]
Anarchism, Psychology, and Law. Free School University Class at Occupy Boston. 2011 [2-part video]
Anarchism, Democracy, and Occupy. Occupy Boston Radio Interview. 2012 [Audiotape]
This Week in Palestine with Sherif Fam, WZBC-Boston. 2008 [Audiotape - begins at 15:11]

Dennis Fox
Emeritus Associate Professor of Legal Studies & Psychology (Retired)
University of Illinois at Springfield

Current Location: Boston

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Page updated August 29, 2017

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dennisfox.net

Critical Psychology

Psychology, Law, & Justice

Politics

Why this site?

Site Highlights

Audio & Video Elsewhere

Contact

Critical
Psychology

Psychology, Law,
& Justice