Decolonizing Liberation: Toward a Transnational Feminist Psychology
Abstract: This paper engages the theme of “decolonizing psychological science” in the context of a perspective on psychological theory and research—namely, feminist psychology—that shares an emphasis on broad liberation. Although conceived as a universal theory and practice of liberation, scholars across diverse sites have suggested that feminism—perhaps especially as it manifests in psychological science—is not always compatible with and at times is even contradictory to global struggles for decolonization. The liberatory impulse of feminist psychology falls short of its potential not only because of its grounding in neocolonial legacies of hegemonic feminisms, but also because of its complicity with neocolonial tendencies of hegemonic psychological science. In response to these concerns, we draw upon on perspectives of transnational feminisms and cultural psychology as tools to decolonize (feminist) psychology. We then propose the possibility of a (transnational) feminist psychology that t.... https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/4867
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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Decolonizing Liberation: Toward a Transnational Feminist Psychology ; volume:3 ; number:1 ; day:21 ; month:08 ; year:2015
Journal of social and political psychology ; 3, Heft 1 (21.08.2015)
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Kurtiş, Tuğçe
Adams, Glenn
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10.5964/jspp.v3i1.326
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021032004423596480610
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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