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
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.
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.
van der Merwe, H. & Lykes, M. B. (2020). Racism and Transitional Justice. International Journal of Transitional Justice, 14(3).
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.
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
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. (Megan Thomas, trans.). Guatemala City, Guatemala: Cholsamaj. (PDF in Spanish available).
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)
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. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijy022
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.
*Távara, G., Lykes, M. B. & Crosby, A. (2018). Standing in between: The healing praxis of Mayan women intermediaries in post genocide Guatemala. Women and Therapy, 41(1-2), 30-51. doi: 10.1080/02703149.2017.1323477
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
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 (forthcoming, 2021): Crosby, Alison, Lykes, M. Brinton & Caxaj, Brisna. Llevando una carga pesada: Lo que las mujeres maya piensan de la reparación después del genocidio. In E. Oglesby & D. Nelson (Eds.), El Juicio Histórico: Genocidio en Guatemala. Guatemala: Cholsamaj. (Pdf in Spanish available here)
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
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.
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.
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
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. & 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 in Spanish available here)
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. & 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
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
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., 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. First published on 15 September 2011. DOI:10.1093/ijtj/ijr017 (PDF in Spanish available here)
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), memory(ies) and voice(s): Feminist participatory action research and photo-narratives in the wake of gross violations of human rights. Visual Studies, 25 (3), 238-254.
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. (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.
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.
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.
Lykes, M.B. (2006). Forward. In Carlos Martin Beristain. Humanitarian Aid Work: A Critical Approach. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
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.
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.
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
Spanish Translation: Una re-interpretación del estrés pos-traumático desde una perspective comunitaria e intercultural. En ECAP (Ed.), Psicología social y violencia política. (2003) Guatemala: Edtiores Siglo Veintiuno, pp. 211-240. (PDF in Spanish available here)
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). 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.
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. (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.
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. An earlier version of this text was included in the Actas del Congreso Nacional de Ética. Asociación Argentina de Investigaciones Éticas [Proceedings from the National Ethics Congress. Argentine Association of Ethics in Research]. Buenos Aires: Universidad de Argentina.
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.
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). 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. (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). Terror, silencing, and children: International multidisciplinary collaboration with Guatemalan Maya communities. Social Science and Medicine, 38(4), 543-552. (PDF in Spanish available here).
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.
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., 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.
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.
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., 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, 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., & 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.