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Lykes, M. B. & *Távara, G. (2024). Contributions and contradictions in decolonizing community psychology: Accompanying Mayan and Andean Women through feminist PAR. In C. Sonn, J. S. Fernández, J. Moura, M. E Madyaningrum, N. Malherbe (eds.). Handbook of Decolonial Community Psychology. Springer.
Lykes, M. B. & Murphy, C. (2023). Decolonizing transitional justice: Soft, radical or beyond reform. International Journal of Transitional Justice, 17(3). doi: 10.1093/ijtj/ijad030
Lykes, M. B. & Lindorfer, S. (2023). Feminist praxis towards liberating psychology in the 21st century: Knowledge constructed with Mayan and Rwandan Survivor-Protagonists. Medical Research Archives, European Society of Medicine. 11(9). doi.org/10.18103/mra.v11i9.4353
*Bianco, M.E. & Lykes, M. B. (2023). Towards an ethics of compassionate care in accompanying human suffering: Dialogic relationships and feminist activist scholarship with asylum-seeking mothers. Journal of Global Ethics, 19(2). doi: 10.1080/17449626.2023.2211080
Moura, James Ferreira, Negreiros, D.J., Lykes, M. B., Oliveira, J.S., Lima, L.B.P., & Barros, J.P.P. (2023). Racialized and gendered impoverishment and violence in Ceará, Brazil: Narratives of surviving mothers and sisters of murdered Black women. Journal of Poverty, (18pp.) doi: 10.1080/10875549.2023.2173707 (PDF available)
Lykes, M. B., *Távara, G., & *Rey-Guerra, C. (2023). Making meaning of women’s persistence and protagonism in the wake of genocidal violence: Maya Ixil and K’iche’ women of Chajul, Guatemala [Mujeres Maya Ixil y K’iche’ de Chajul, Guatemala: construyendo significado desde la persistencia y el protagonismo de las mujeres tras la violencia genocida]. Feminism and Psychology, 33(2), 215-235. doi: 10.1177/09593535221118428 (PDF in Spanish available)
Van der Merwe, H. & Lykes, M.B. (2022). Transitional justice and corporate accountability – introducing new players and new theoretical challenges. International Journal of Transitional Justice, 16(3), 291-297.
Lykes, M. B. (2022). Una mirada desde la psicología crítica: Niñez, marginación y derechos humanos [Critical psychological perspectives: Children, marginalization and human rights] In J. Morales-Cruz, I. Serrano-García, K. Baerga-Santini, I. Sánchez-Cardona, & M. Figueroa Rodríguez (Eds.). Psicología en Puerto Rico: Desafíos contextuales y retos para la acción. Asociación de Psicología de Puerto Rico. (pp. 75-86).
Lykes, M. B. (2022). Desplazamiento forzado en escenarios de conflicto: Perspectivas desde la ética y los derechos humanos [Forced Displacement in Conflict Scenarios: Ethics and Human Rights Perspectives]. Book Review. Andrea Hellemeyer & Eduardo Díaz Amado (eds.).
Ética & Cine, 12(2), 109-114.
*Távara, G. & Lykes, M. B. (2022). Andean women’s persistence amidst racialized gendered impoverishment, capitalist incursions and post-conflict hauntings. Frontiers in Psychology: Gender, Sex and Sexualities Front. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.908673
Lykes, M. B. & van der Merwe, H. (2021). Apologies for and acknowledgements of historical violence and struggles for justice. International Journal of Transitional Justice, 15(3), 463-467.
Lykes, M. B., Crosby, A. & Álvarez Medrano, S. B. (2021). Redressing Historical Injustice, Reframing Resilience: Mayan Women's Persistence and Protagonism as Resistance. In J.N. Clark & M. Ungar (Eds.) Resilience, Adaptive Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice: How Societies Recover after Collective Violence. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. (PDF in Spanish available)
Lykes, M. B. & *McGillen, G. (2021). Re-membering Ignacio Martín-Baró: Provocations and Insights for Liberating Psychology in the 21st Century. In Stevens, G. & Sonn, C. (Eds.) Decoloniality and Epistemic Justice in Contemporary Community Psychology. Springer.
Lykes, M.B., *Bianco, M.E., & *Távara, G. (2021). Contributions and limitations of diverse qualitative methods to feminist participatory and action research with women in the wake of gross violations of human rights. Methods in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.metip.2020.100043. (PDF available).
Lykes, M. B. (2020). Living lives of protest in multiple registers: Dialogic co-constructions of narratives in the wake of genocidal violence. In C. Squire (Ed.). Stories changing lives: Narratives and Paths toward Social Change. (pp. 121-143). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. (PDF in Spanish available)
*Bhattacharyya, S., Lykes, M. B., & Carrasco, J. (2020) ‘Echo Images’: An arts-based feedback tool for qualitative research interviews. Qualitative Methods in Psychology Bulletin, 30, 62-72.
van der Merwe, H. & Lykes, M. B. (2020). Racism and Transitional Justice. International Journal of Transitional Justice, 14(3), 415–422, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijab00
Özgür Erdur-Baker, Ö., Özmen, O., Aksöz-Efe, İ., Aker, T. & Lykes, M. B. (2020). Struggles and assets of Syrian college students in Turkey. In de Wit, H., Ergin, H., Khajarian, A., and Unangst, L. (Eds.) Refugees and Higher Education: trans-national perspectives on access, equity, and internationalization. Leiden, Netherlands & Boston, MA: Brill/Sense Book Series.
Lykes, M. B. & *Távara, G. (2020). Feminist participatory action research: Co-constructing liberation psychological praxis through dialogic relationality and critical reflexivity. In Comas Diaz, L. and E. Torres-Rivera (Eds.) Liberation Psychology: Theory, Method, Practice, and Social Justice. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, pp. 111-130.
Lykes, M. B., *Távara, G., *Sibley, E. & *Ferreira van Leer, K. (2020). Maya K’iche’ families and intergenerational migration within and across borders: An exploratory mixed-methods study. Community Psychology in Global Perspective, 6(1), 52-73. (PDF in Spanish available)
Kim, S., Kirk, G. & Lykes, M. B. (Eds.). (2020). Unsettling debates: Women and peace making. Special Issue, Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict and World Order, 46(1) (Issue 155). This SI includes two original co-authored articles by the co-editors, an Introduction (pp. 1- 11) and an Epilogue (pp. 119-127).
Lykes, M. B. (2020). Accompanying Maya women: Armed resistance and transitional justice struggles. Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict and World Order, 46(1), 49-64. (PDF in Spanish available)
Lykes, M. B. & van der Merwe, H. (2019). Critical reflexivity and transitional justice praxis: Solidarity, accompaniment, and intermediarity. International Journal of Transitional Justice, 13(3), 411–416, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijz023
*Hershberg, R. M. & Lykes, M. B. (2019). Fathering within transnational and mixed-status Mayan families: An exploratory study. International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation, 8(2), 59-77. doi: 10.1037/ipp0000104
Crosby, A. & Lykes, M. B. (2019). Beyond repair? Mayan women’s protagonism in the aftermath of genocidal harm. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Spanish translation: Más allá de la reparación: Protagonismo de mujeres mayas en las secuelas del daño genocida. Guatemala City, Guatemala: Cholsamaj. (PDF in Spanish available).
Lykes, M.B., *Lloyd, C., & Nicholson, K.M. (2018). Participatory action research within and beyond the academy: Contesting racism through decolonial praxis and teaching against the grain. American Journal of Community Psychology, 62(3/4), 406-418. doi: 10.1002/ajcp.12290
van der Merwe, H. & Lykes, M. B. (2018). Idealists, Opportunists and Activists: Who Drives Transitional Justice? International Journal of Transitional Justice, 12(3), 381-385. doi: 10.1093/ijtj/ijy022
*Bhattacharyya, S., *Kaur, J., *Corpus, G., Lykes, M. B. & Heesacker, M. (2018). “There Are Many Social Evils and Only We Can Cure It”: A Thematic Content Analysis of Privileged Indian Youth’s Perspective on Social Issues. Journal for Social Action in Counseling and Psychology, 10(1), 2-29.
Lykes, M.B. (2018). Identidades de “allá” y de “acá”: Jóvenes mayas migrantes transnacionales, capital humano y el futuro de Guatemala [Identities “here” and “there”: Transnational Maya migrant youth, human capital and the future of Guatemala]. Entrega especial Ricardo Falla, S.J. [Festschrift in honor of Ricardo Falla, S.J.]. Eutopía: Revista de Investigación y Proyección [Utopia: Journal of Research and Social Projection], 331-354.
Crosby, A., Lykes, M.B., & Doiron, F. (2018/2019). Affective contestations: Engaging emotion through the Sepur Zarco trial. In Macleod, M. and N. De Marinis (Eds.) Resisting violence: Emotional communities in Latin America. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 163-185. Spanish translation: Contestaciones afectivas: Involucrando las emociones en el juicio Sepur Zarco. En Macleod, M. y N. De Marinis (Eds.) (2019) Comunidades emocionales: Resistiendo a las violencias en América Latina. México: UAM Xochimilco y Bogotá, Columbia: Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia, pp. 185-209. (PDF in Spanish available here)
*Távara, G., Lykes, M. B. & Crosby, A. (2017). Standing in between: The healing praxis of Mayan women intermediaries in post genocide Guatemala. Women and Therapy, 41(1-2). Published on-line June 7, 2017. doi: 10.1080/02703149.2017.1323477 [Spanish translation and republished in 2020: De pie en el medio: Las prácticas de sanación de las mujeres mayas intermediarias después del genocidio en Guatemala. Costa, G.E. & Etchezahar, E. (Eds.). Diversidad, Identidad, & Derechos. Buenos Aires, AR: Ediciones de la UNLZ, pp. 179-224). (PDF in Spanish available here)
*Bhattacharyya, S., *Woods, M. & Lykes, M. B. (2017). Can educational policy redress historical discrimination? Exploring a university community’s experiences with India’s caste-based affirmative action policy. Community Psychology in Global Perspectives, 3(2), 38-59.
Lykes, M.B. & van der Merwe, H. (2017). Exploring/Expanding the reach of transitional justice: Editorial note. International Journal of Transitional Justice, 11(3), 371–377. doi: 10.1093/ijtj/ijx026
Lykes, M. B. & Michel Fariña, Juan Jorge. (2017). Re-storying violence and its aftermath through film. Visual Studies, 32(2), 178-182. doi: 10.1080/1472586X.2017.1321248
Lykes, M. B. (2017). Community-based and Participatory Action Research: Community psychology collaborations within and across borders. In Bond, M. A., Keys, C. B. & Serrano-García, I. & Shinn, S. (Eds.) Handbook of Community Psychology, Volume II. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, pp. 43-58.
Crosby, A., Lykes, M. B., & Caxaj, B. (2016/2017). Carrying a heavy load: Mayan women’s understandings of reparation in the aftermath of genocide. Journal of Genocide Research. 18(2-3), 265-283. doi:10.1080/14623528.2016.1186952. [Republished in 2017: Oglesby, E.A. & Nelson, D.M. (Eds.) Guatemala, the question of genocide. New York: Routledge. [Spanish translation and republished: Llevando una carga pesada: Lo que las mujeres mayas piensan de la reparación después del genocidio. (Pdf in Spanish available here)
*McGillen, G., Bhattacharyya, S. & Lykes, M. B. (2016). Undocumented migrants, rights literacy, and ESOL classrooms: A community-university partnership to enhance psychopolitical learning. LEARNing Landscapes, 10 (1), 183-198.
van der Merwe, H. & Lykes, M.B. (2016). Transitional justice processes as teachable moments: Editorial note. International Journal of Transitional Justice. 10(3), 361-365. doi: 10.1093/ijtj/ijw019
Dutta, U., Sonn, C. C. & Lykes, M. B. (2016). Situating and contesting structural violence in community based research and action. Community Psychology in Global Perspective 2(2), 1-20.
Dutta, U., Sonn, C. C. & Lykes, M. B. (Eds.). (2016). Structural violence and community based research. Community Psychology in Global Perspective, 2(2). Entire Issue.
*Sánchez Ares, R. & Lykes, M. B. (2016). Mayan young women and photovoice: Exposing state violence(s) and gendered migration in rural Guatemala. Community Psychology in Global Perspective 2(2), 56-78. (PDF in Spanish available here)
Lykes, M. B. & Portillo, N. (2016). A search for justice in El Salvador: One legacy of Ignacio Martín-Baró. ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America, pp. 51-53. https://revista.drclas.harvard.edu/a-search-for-justice-in-el-salvador-one-legacy-of-ignacio-martin-baro/.
Lykes, M. B. & Scheib, H. (2016). Visual methodologies and participatory action research: Performing women’s community-based health promotion in post-Katrina New Orleans. Global Public Health 11(5-6), 1-19. doi:10.1080/17441692.2016.1170180
Brabeck, K., *Sibley, E. & Lykes, M.B. (2016). Authorized and Unauthorized Immigrant Parents: The Impact of Legal Vulnerability on Family Contexts. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Science, 38, 3-30. doi:10.1177/0739986315621741. On-line published December 2015.
Lykes, M. B. & Crosby, A. (2015). Participatory action research as a resource for community regeneration in post-conflict contexts. In Bretherton, D. & Law, S. F. Methodologies in Peace Psychology: Peace Research by Peaceful Means. New York: Springer, pp. 237-254.
Kanstroom, D. & Lykes, M. B. (Eds.) (2015). The New Deportations Delirium: Interdisciplinary Responses. New York: New York University Press. With two original chapters:
Kanstroom, D. & Lykes, M. B. Migration, Detention, and Deportation: Dilemmas and Responses, pp. 1-32
Lykes, M. B., *Sibley, E., Brabeck, K. M., *Hunter, C. & *Johansen, Y. Participatory Action Research with Transnational and Mixed Status Families: Understanding and Responding to post-9/11 Threats to Migrants, pp. 193-226
*Hershberg, R. M. & Lykes, M. B. (2015). Transnational Mixed-Status Families: Critical Challenges in Cross-Border Relationships over Time. In Scheuths, A. & Lawston, J. (Eds.). Living Together, Living Apart: Mixed Status Families and US Immigration Policy. U of Washington Press, pp. 37-53.
Lykes, M. B. & *Hershberg, R. M. (2015). Continuities and Discontinuities in Human Rights Violations: Historically Situating the Psychosocial Effects of Migration. Journal of Social Issues. 71(2), 244-263. doi:10.1111/josi.12108
Lykes, M.B. & Scheib, H. (2015). The artistry of emancipatory practice: Photovoice, creative techniques, and feminist anti-racist participatory action research. In Bradbury-Huang, H. (Ed.) Handbook of Action Research III. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. pp. 131-142.
Lykes, M.B. & Crosby, A. (2015). Creative methodologies as a resource for Mayan women’s protagonism. In Hamber, B. & Gallagher, E. (Eds.) Psychosocial Perspectives on Peacebuilding. Peace Psychology Book Series. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. pp. 147-186. Spanish translation: Metodologías creativas como recurso para el protagonismo de mujeres Mayas. In Investigaciones en Psicología Social. (Ed. by G. L. Costa & E. Etchezahar). Buenos Aires: Ediciones de la UNLZ, pp. 85-139. (PDF disponible)
Brabeck, K., Lykes, M.B., *Sibley, E. & Kene, P. (2015). Ethical ambiguities in participatory action research with unauthorized migrants. Ethics and Behavior, 25(1), 21-36. doi: 10.1080/10508422.2014.920707 Published on-line September 2014.
Brabeck, K., Lykes, M. B., & *Hunter, C. (2014). The psychosocial impact of detention and deportation on U.S. migrant children and families. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 84(5), 496-505. doi:10.1037.ort00000011
Lykes, M. B. & *Sibley, E. (2014). Liberation psychology and pragmatic solidarity: North-South collaborations through the Ignacio Martín-Baró Fund. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 20(3), 209-226. doi:10.1037/pac0000045
Lykes, M.B. (2014). Maya Women of Chajul. In Coghlan, D. & Brydon-Miller, M. (Eds). The SAGE encyclopedia of action research. (Vols. 1-2) (pp. 529-532) . Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781446294406
Lykes, M.B. (2014). Ignacio Martín-Baró. In Coghlan, D. & Brydon-Miller, M. (Eds). The SAGE encyclopedia of action research. (Vols. 1-2) (pp. 523-526). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781446294406
Lykes, M. B., & Crosby, A. (2014). Creativity as intervention strategy in feminist and psychosocial accompaniment processes with Mayan women in Guatemala. Intervention: International Journal of Mental Health, Psychosocial Work and Counselling in Areas of Armed Conflict. 12(1), 30-42.
Lykes, M. B. & Crosby, A. (2014). Feminist Practice of Community and Participatory and Action Research. In Sharlene Hesse-Biber (Ed.) Feminist Research Practice: A Primer. Second Edition. Thousand Oak, CA: SAGE. pp. 145-181.
Lykes, M. B. (2013). Participatory and Action Research as a Transformative Praxis: Responding to Humanitarian Crises from the Margins. American Psychologist, 68(8), 772-783. doi:10.1037/a0034360. Spanish translation: La investigación acción participativa como praxis transformadora: Respondiendo a las crisis humanitarias desde los márgenes.In Investigaciones en Psicología Social. (2015). (Ed. by G. L. Costa & E. Etchezahar). Buenos Aires: Ediciones de la UNLZ, pp. 59-83. (PDF in Spanish available here)
Lykes, M. B. Participatory/Action Research (2013). In Keith, K. (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural Psychology Wiley-Blackwell Publishers
Lykes, M.B. & *Sibley, E. (2013). Exploring Meaning Making with Adolescents “Left Behind” by Migration. Educational Action Research, 21(4), 565-581. doi:10.1080/09650792.2013. 832346. [PDF in Spanish available here from first author]
Lykes, M. B., Brabeck, K. M. & *Hunter, C. (2013). Exploring Parent-Child Communication in the Context of Threat: Mixed-status families facing detention and deportation in post 9/11 USA. Community, Work and Family, 16(2), 123-146. doi:10.1080/13668803.2012.752997
Scheib, H. & Lykes, M. B. (2013). African American and Latina Community Health Workers engage PhotoPAR as a resource in a post-disaster context: Katrina at 5 years. Journal of Health Psychology, 18(8), 1069-1084. doi:10.1177/1359105312470127
Hershberg, R. M. & Lykes, M. B. (2012). Redefining family: Transnational girls narrate experiences of parental migration, detention, and deportation. FQS: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung/Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 14(1), Art. 5, http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs130157
Lykes, M. B. (2012). One legacy among many: The Ignacio Martín-Baró Fund for Mental Health and Human Rights at 21. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 18 (1), 88-95. doi:10.1037/a0026982
Lykes, M.B., McDonald, E. & Boc, C. (2012). The Post-Deportation Human Rights Project: Participatory Action Research with Maya Transnational Families. Practicing Anthropology 34(1), 22-26.
Lykes, M. B. & *Hershberg, R. (2012). Participatory Action Research and Feminisms: Social Inequalities and Transformative Praxis. In Sharlene Hesse-Biber (Ed.) Handbook of Feminist Research II: Theory and Praxis. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, pp. 331-367.
Lykes, M. B., *Hershberg, R. & Brabeck, K.M. (2011). Methodological challenges in participatory action research with undocumented Central American migrants. Journal for Social Action in Counseling and Psychology, 3(2), 22-35. http://jsacp.tumblr.com/
Lykes, M. B. & Chicco, J. (2011) Políticas y prácticas de deportación en la administración de Obama: “Entre más cambian las cosas más se quedan igual” [Deportation Policies and Practices in the Obama Administration: “The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same”]. ENCUENTRO: Revista Académico de la Universidad Centroamericana, 90, 7-18.
Crosby, A. & Lykes, M. B. (2011). Mayan women survivors speak: The gendered relations of truth-telling in postwar Guatemala. International Journal of Transitional Justice, 5(3), 456-476. doi:10.1093/ijtj/ijr017 [PDF in Spanish available here from second author]
Brabeck, K. M., Lykes, M.B., & *Hershberg, R. (2011). Framing immigration to and deportation from the United States: Guatemalan and Salvadoran families make meaning of their experiences. Community, Work and Family, 14(3), 275-296. First published on 25 March 2011. DOI:10.1080/13668803.2010.520840
Lykes, M. B. (2010) Silence(ing), voice(s) and gross violations of human rights: Constituting and performing subjectivities through PhotoPAR. Visual Studies, 25 (3), 238-254. doi: 10.1080/1472586X.2010.523276
Lykes, M. B. (2010) Assessing ethical, political and social issues for cultural variations. In Kimberly Hoagwood, Peter S. Jensen, Mary McKay, and Serene Olin (Eds.) Children's Mental Health Research: The Power of Partnerships. Oxford University Press, pp. 121-123.
Lykes, M. B. (2010). No easy road to freedom: Engendering and enculturating forced migration. In D.Hollenbach, SJ (Ed.), Driven from Home: Protecting the Rights of Forced Migrants. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, pp. 71-93.
Lykes, M.B. (2010). Women’s lives and social policy in post-conflict societies. Book Review. Feminist Conversations: Women, Trauma, and Empowerment in Post-Transitional Societies. Doville Budryte, Lisa M. Vaughn & Natalyat Riegg (eds.). Psychology of Women Quarterly, 34, 265-271
Lykes, M. B., *Coquillon, E. D., & Rabenstein, K. L. (2010). Theoretical and methodological challenges in participatory community-based research. In H. Landrine & N. F. Russo (Eds.), Handbook of Diversity in Feminist Psychology. New York: Springer Publishing, pp. 55-82.
Lykes, M. B. & Moane, G. (2009).Whither feminist liberation psychology? Critical exploration of feminist and liberation psychologies for a globalizing world. Feminism & Psychology, 19(3), 283-298.
Lykes, M.B. & Moane, G. (Eds.) (2009). Feminist Liberation Psychology: Special Issue. Feminism & Psychology, 19(3). Entire Issue.
Lykes, M. B. & *Coquillon, E.D. (2009). Psychosocial trauma, poverty, and human rights in communities emerging from war. In D. Fox, I. Prilleltensky, & S. Austin (Eds.), Critical Psychology II. London: SAGE, pp. 285-299.
Brydon-Miller, M., Davids, I., Jaitli, N., Lykes, M. B., Schensul, J., & Williams, S. (2009). Popular education and action research: Voices from the field. In S. Noffke and B. Somekh (Eds.), The Handbook of Educational Action Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, pp. 387-396.
Lykes, M. B. & *Mallona, A. (2008). Towards transformational liberation: Participatory action research and activist praxis. In P. Reason & H. Bradbury (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Action Research II. London: SAGE Publications Ltd., pp. 260-292.
Cabrera Pérez-Armiñan, M. L. & Lykes, M. B. (2008). Compartir la Memoria Colectiva: Acompañamiento Psicosocial y Justicia Integral para Mujeres Víctimas de Violencia Sexual en Conflictos Armados [Sharing our Collective Memory: Psychosocial Accompaniment and Integral Justice for Women, Victims of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict]. Guatemala: PCS-Consejeria en Proyectos. 83pp.
Lykes, M. B., Beristain, C. M., & Cabrera Pérez-Armiñan, M. L. (2007). Political violence, impunity, and emotional climate in Maya communities. Journal of Social Issues, 63(2), 369- 385. doi:10.1111/j.1540-4560.2007.00514.x
Lykes, M.B. & *Coquillon, E. (2007). Participatory and Action Research and Feminisms: Towards Transformative Praxis. In Sharlene Hesse-Biber (Ed.).Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, pp. 297-326.
Costanzo, M., Gerrity, E. & Lykes, M.B. (2006) Psychologists and the use of torture in interrogations. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy (ASAP), 6(1), 1-14. Reprinted in Spanish in aesthethika© International Journal on Subjectivity, Politics and the Arts, Revista Internacional sobre Subjetividad, Política y Arte, 11(2), septiembre 2015, 7-20. (PDF in Spanish available)
Lykes, M.B. & Lazarus, S. (2006) Indigenous and Euro-American Psychologies: Resources and Barriers for Generating Knowledge and Practice. International Psychology Bulletin, 10 (3).
Lykes, M.B. (2006). Forward. In Carlos Martín Beristain. Humanitarian Aid Work: A Critical Approach. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Lykes, M.B. & Mersky, M. (2006). Reparations and mental health: Psychosocial interventions towards healing, human agency, and rethreading social realities. In Pablo de Greiff (Ed.). The Handbook of Reparations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 589-622.
*Durand, T. M. & Lykes, M.B. (2006). Think globally, act locally: A global perspective on mobilizing adults for positive youth development. In E. Gil Clary and Jean E. Rhodes (Eds.). Mobilizing Adults for Positive Youth Development : Strategies for Closing the Gap between Beliefs and Behaviors (The Search Institute Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society). New York: Springer, pp. 233-254.
*Qin, D. & Lykes, M. B. (2006). Reweaving a fragmented web of self: A grounded theory of self-understanding among Chinese women students in USA. International Journal of Qualitative Research in Education 19(2), 177-200.
Lykes, M. B. (2004). Virtues and vocation: Community psychology and social change. In Geoffrey Nelson & Isaac Prilleltensky (Eds.). Community psychology: In pursuit of liberation and well-being. London: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 156-159. [Revised, 2nd edition, in press, 2010]
De Jesus, Maria & Lykes, M. B. (2004). Racism and “whiteness” in transitions to peace: Indigenous peoples, human rights, and the struggle for justice. In Michelle Fine, Lois Weis, Linda Powell and April Burns (Eds.). (2nd ed.). Off White: Readings in power, privilege, and resistance. Taylor & Francis, pp. 331-344.
Ngonyama ka Sigogo, T., Hooper, M., Long, C., Lykes, M.B., Wilson, K. & Zietkiewicz, E. (2004). Chasing rainbow notions: Enacting community psychology in the classroom and beyond in post-1994 South Africa. American Journal of Community Psychology 33(1/2), 77-89.
*McIntyre, A & Lykes, M.B. (2004). Weaving words and pictures in/through feminist participatory action research. In Mary Brydon-Miller, Patricia Maguire & Alice McIntyre (Eds.). Traveling companions: Feminism, teaching and action research, Westport, CT: Praeger, pp. 52-78.
Lykes, M. B. (Fall, 2003). Developing an activist liberatory community psychology: One step at a time. The Community Psychologist, 36(4), 39-42.
Williams, J.W. & Lykes, M. B. (2003). Bridging theory and practice: Using reflexive cycles in feminist PAR. Feminism and Psychology, 13(3), 287-294.
Lykes, M.B., TerreBlanche, M. & Hamber, B. (2003). Narrating survival and change in Guatemala and South Africa: The politics of representation and a liberatory community psychology. American Journal of Community Psychology 31(1/2), 79-90.
Lykes, M.B. (2001) A critical re-reading of PTSD from a cross-cultural/community perspective. In Derek Hook and Gillian Eagle (Eds.), Psychopathology and social prejudice. Cape Town, South Africa: UCT Press/JUTA, pp. 92-108. En español: (2003) Una re-interpretación crítica del estrés pos-traumático desde una perspectiva comunitaria e intercultural. En Psicología social y violencia política. Compilado por ECAP. Guatemala City, Guatemala: Editores Siglo Veintiuno, pp. 211-240. (PDF in Spanish available here)
Lykes, M.B. & Qin, D. (2001). Individualism and collectivism. Encyclopedia of Gender. Editor in Chief: Judith Worrell. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, pp. 625-631.
Lykes, M.B. (2001) Activist participatory research and the arts with rural Maya women: Interculturality and situated meaning making. In Deborah L. Tolman and Mary Brydon-Miller (Eds.), From Subjects to Subjectivities: A Handbook of Interpretive and Participatory Methods. New York: New York University Press, pp. 183-199.
Lykes, M. B. (2001). Human rights violations as structural violence. In D.J. Christie, R.V. Wagner & D. DuN. Winter (Eds.), Peace, conflict and violence: Peace psychology for the 21st century. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, pp. 158-167.
Lykes, M. B. (2001). Creative arts and photography in participatory action research in Guatemala. In P. Reason & H. Bradbury (Eds.), Handbook of Action Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, pp. 363-371. (PDF in Spanish available here)
Women of PhotoVoice/ADMI & Lykes, M.B. (2000). Voces e imágenes: Mujeres Mayas Ixiles de Chajul/Voices and images: Mayan Ixil women of Chajul. Guatemala: Magna Terra. Texts in Spanish and English, with a methodology chapter by Lykes.
Lykes, M.B. (2000) Possible contributions of a psychology of liberation: Whither health and human rights? Journal of Health Psychology 5(3), 383-397.
Haney, W. & Lykes, M. B. (2000). Practice, participatory research and creative research designs: The continuing evolution of ethical guidelines for research. In F. Sherman & B. Torbert (Eds.), Transforming social inquiry, transforming social action: New paradigms for crossing the theory/practice divide in universities and communities. Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 275-294.
Michel Fariña, J.J. & Lykes, M.B. (2000). Cuestiones éticas y epistemológicas ante la experimentación psicológica con niños [Ethical and epistemological questions in psychological experiments with children]. En J. J. Michel Fariña & Carlos Guitiérrez (Eds.), La encrucijada de la filiación: Technologías reproductivas y restitución de niños [Childhood at the crossroads: Reproductive technologies and the restitucion of children]. Buenos Aires-Mexico: Grupo Editorial Lumen, pp. 25-31.
Lykes, M. B. (1999), in collaboration with A. Caba Mateo, J. Chávez Anay, I. A. Laynez Caba, U. Ruiz and Joan W. Williams. Telling stories – rethreading lives: Community education, women’s development and social change among the Maya Ixil. International Journal of Leadership in Education: Theory and Practice, 2(3), 207-227. En español: (2003). Contando historias – reconectando vidas: Educación comunitaria, desarrollo de la mujer y cambio social. En Psicología social y violencia política. Compilado por ECAP. Guatemala City, Guatemala: Editores Siglo Veintiuno, pp.327-358. (PDF in Spanish available here)
Lykes, M. B. (1999). Doing psychology at the periphery: Constructing just alternatives to war and peace. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 5(1), 27-36.
McIntyre, A., & Lykes, M. B. (1998). Who’s the boss? Confronting whiteness and power differences within a feminist mentoring relationship in participatory action research. Feminism and Psychology, 8(4), 427-444.
Comas-Díaz, L., Lykes, M. B., Alarcón, R. (1998). Ethnic conflict and the psychology of liberation in Guatemala, Perú, and Puerto Rico. American Psychologist, 53(7), 778-792.
Arditti, R & Lykes, M.B. (1997). La labor de las Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo [The work of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo]. En Restitución de niños: Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo [Restitution of children: The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo]. Buenos Aires, AR: Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires, pp. 109-132.
Lykes, M. B. (1997). Activist participatory research among the Maya of Guatemala: Constructing meanings from situated knowledge. Journal of Social Issues, 53(4), 725-746.
Brabeck, M. M., et al., including Lykes, M. B. (1997). Changing the culture of the university to engage in outreach scholarship. In R. M. Lerner & L. K. Simon (Eds.), Creating the new outreach university for America’s youth and families: Building university-community collaborations for the twenty-first century. New York: Garland Publishing.
Lykes, M. B. (1997). Cross-cultural and transnational responses to human rights and mental health [Review of the book Pain and survival: Human rights violations and mental health]. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 3(1), 105-107.
Lykes, M. B., Banuazizi, A., Liem, R., & Morris, M. (Eds.). (1996). Myths about the powerless: Contesting social inequalities. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. This volume includes an introductory chapter by the four editors and the following original chapters:
Lykes, M. B. Meaning making in a context of genocide and silencing.
Lykes, M. B. Conversation with William Ryan.
Lykes, M. B., & Mallona, A. (1996). Surfacing our-selves: ¿Gringa, white - mestiza, brown? In M. Fine, M. Wong, L. Weis, & M. Powell (Eds.), Off-white. New York: Routledge.
Lykes, M. B. (1995). La voluntad de resistir: La conservacion del "self" y la cultura guatemalteca [The will to resist: Preservation of self and culture in Guatemala]. Psique y Sociedad, 2(1, 2).
Lykes, M. B. (1994). The psychosocial effects of war on children. In A study guide for If the mango tree could speak. Washington, DC: Network Educators of America.
Lykes, M. B. (1994). [Review of the book Women and human rights]. Journal of Moral Education, 23(3), 364-366.
Lykes, M. B. (1994). Speaking against the silence: One Maya woman's exile and return. In C. E. Franz & A. J. Stewart (Eds.), Women creating lives: Identities, resilience, and resistance. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, pp. 97-114.
Lykes, M. B. (1994). Terror, silencing, and children: International multidisciplinary collaboration with Guatemalan Maya communities. Social Science and Medicine, 38(4), 543-552. doi: 10.1016/02779536(94)90250-X. [PDF in Spanish available here from author]
Lykes, M. B., & multiple co-authors. (1994). Trauma psicosocial y adolescentes Latinoamericanos: Formas de accion grupal. [Psychosocial trauma and Latin American youth: Forms of group action]. Santiago, Chile: ILAS.
Lykes, M. B. (1994). I. Whose meeting at which crossroads? A Response to Brown and Gilligan. Feminism and Psychology, 4(3), 345-349.
Arditti, R., & Lykes, M. B. (1993). The disappeared children of Argentina: The work of the grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo. In M. Agosin (Ed.), Surviving beyond fear: Women, children, and human rights in Latin America (pp. 168-175). Fredonia, NY: White Pine Press.
Lykes, M. B. (1993). "Children in the storm": Psychosocial trauma in Latin America. In M. Agosin (Ed.), Surviving beyond fear: Women, children, and human rights in Latin America (pp. 152-161). Fredonia, NY: White Pine Press.
Lykes, M. B. (1993). Niños y violencia política: Dossier temático de acceso bibliográfico [Children and political violence: Review essay and annotated bibliography]. Buenos Aires: CEDDI.
Lykes, M. B. (1993). [Review of the book Gender constructs and social issues]. Contemporary Psychology, 38(8), 868-869.
Lykes, M. B., Brabeck, M., Ferns, T., & Radan, A. (1993). Human rights and mental health among Latin American women in situations of state sponsored violence: Bibliographic resources. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 17(4), 525-544.
Lykes, M.B. (1993). Community research crosses national boundaries: Multiple meanings of long-term residence in particular spaces. American Journal of Community Psychology, 21(4), 487-493.
Arditti, R., & Lykes, M. B. (1992). "Recovering identity": The work of the grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Women's Studies International Forum, 15(4), 461-471.
Lykes, M. B. (1992, Julio-Agosto). Talleres creativos para un trabajo con niños [Creative workshops for working with children]. ASECSA. El Informador Comunitario, 144, 6-8.
Melville, M., & Lykes, M. B. (1992). Guatemalan Indian children and the sociocultural effects of government-sponsored terrorism. Social Science and Medicine, 34(5), 533-548. (PDF in Spanish available here)
Arditti, R., & Lykes, M. B. (1991). Las abuelas de Plaza de Mayo [The grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo]. In X. Bunster (Ed.), La mujer ausente: Derechos humanos en el mundo [The absent woman: Human rights in the world] (pp. 135-144). ISIS Internacional, Ediciones de las Mujeres, No. 15, Santiago, Chile.
Lykes, M. B. (1991). Children in the storm: Communities respond through action-research. The Community Psychologist, 25(1), 11-13.
Lykes, M. B. (1991). Perspectives on gender: Difference, disadvantage, or dominance? [Review of the books Making a difference and Theoretical perspectives on sexual difference]. Contemporary Psychology, 36(12), 1072-1073.
Lykes, M. B., Maciel, R., Iborra, M., Suardi, L., & Costa, E. (1991). Jugando a recrear nuestra historia [Playing to recreate our history]. In E. G. Mendez & M. del Carmen Bianchi (Eds.), Ser niño en America Latina [To be a child in Latin America] (pp. 369-373). Buenos Aires: UNICEF.
Lykes, M. B. (1990, Octubre-Diciembre). Ignacio Martín-Baró: Un hombre para/dentro de otros: Reflexiones en homenaje a un amigo, colega, y mentor [Ignacio Martín-Baró: A man with/for others]. Revista de Psicología de El Salvador, 38, 370-375.
Lykes, M. B. (1990, October). War tears at children's emotions. Response Magazine, United Methodist Church, 25-29.
Lykes, M. B., & Liem, R. (1990). Human rights and mental health work in the United States: Lessons from Latin America. Journal of Social Issues, 46(3), 151-165.
Arditti, R., & Lykes, M. B. (1989). The missing children of Argentina. Sojourner: The Women's Forum, 14(5), 17-18.
Lykes, M. B. (1989). The caring self: Social experiences of power and powerlessness. In M. Brabeck (Ed.), Who cares? Theoretical and ethical perspectives (pp. 164-179). New York: Praeger.
Lykes, M. B. (1989). Dialogue with Guatemalan Indian women: Critical perspectives on constructing collaborative research. In R. Unger (Ed.), Representations: Social constructions of gender (pp. 167-185). Amityville, NY: Baywood. [Reprinted in Gergen, M., & Davis, S. (Eds.). (1996). Toward a new psychology of gender: A reader. New York: Routledge.]
Lykes, M. B., & Fariña, J. J. (1989). Can the unofficial story have a happy ending? The restitution of children in Argentina. LINKS: Central America Health Report, 6(1), 10-11.
Lykes, M. B., & Hellstedt, J. C. (1987). Field training in community‑social psychology: A competency based self‑directed learning model. Journal of Community Psychology, 15, 417‑428.
Lykes, M. B., & Stewart, A. J. (1986). Evaluating the feminist challenge in personality and social psychology: 1963‑1983. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 10(4), 393-412.
Stewart, A. J., & Lykes, M. B. (Eds.). (1985). Gender and personality. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Personality, 53(2), with two original chapters:
Stewart, A. J., & Lykes, M. B. Conceptualizing gender in personality theory and research: An introduction.
Lykes, M. B. Gender and individualistic versus collectivist notions about the self.
Lykes, M. B. (1983). Discrimination and coping in the lives of Black women: Analyses of oral history data. Journal of Social Issues, 39(3), 79‑100.
Stewart, A. J., Lykes, M. B., & LaFrance, M. (1982). Educated women's career patterns: Separating social and developmental changes. Journal of Social Issues, 38(1), 97‑117.
Cornwall Collective (Lykes, M. B., & others, Eds.). (1980). Your daughters shall prophesy: Feminist alternatives in theological education. New York: Pilgrim Press. This volume includes the following original chapters:
Bosquet, J., Lykes, M. B., & Smith-Penniman, A. (1980). Constituency: What we learn is shaped by those with whom we learn.
Lykes, M. B., & Martin, J. (1980). Still making the road as we go.
*Students or former students
Selected Media Publications & Presentations
Lykes, M.B. & Caxaj, B. (2022) Feminist Trailblazers and Good TroubleMakers: Participatory Action Research Transnationally. https://anchor.fm/patricia-maguire/episodes/Episode-4- with-Brinton-Lykes-and-Brisna-Caxaj-e1q1lbl
Lykes, M.B. (January 23, 2014). U.S. Psychologists, Torture at Guantanamo Bay and the American Psychological Association. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01q1brd
Lykes, M.B. & Brabeck, K.M. (October, 2013). Family values? US Immigration Policies Tear Apart Migrant Families. Retrieved from: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/m-brinton-lykes/migrant- children_b_4038548.html
Lykes, M. B., Mersky, M. & Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (Fall, 1983). Women to Women: Guatemalan Women Speak (Washington, New York, Boston, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Austin)