Decolonizing Psychological Science: Introduction to the Special Thematic Section

Abstract: Despite unprecedented access to information and diffusion of knowledge across the globe, the bulk of work in mainstream psychological science still reflects and promotes the interests of a privileged minority of people in affluent centers of the modern global order. Compared to other social science disciplines, there are few critical voices who reflect on the Euro-American colonial character of psychological science, particularly its relationship to ongoing processes of domination that facilitate growth for a privileged minority but undermine sustainability for the global majority. Moved by mounting concerns about ongoing forms of multiple oppression (including racialized violence, economic injustice, unsustainable over-development, and ecological damage), we proposed a special thematic section and issued a call for papers devoted to the topic of "decolonizing psychological science". In this introduction to the special section, we first discuss two perspectives—liberation psycholog.... https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/4851

Angaben zum Objekt

• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Decolonizing Psychological Science: Introduction to the Special Thematic Section ; volume:3 ; number:1 ; day:21 ; month:08 ; year:2015 ; Journal of social and political psychology ; 3, Heft 1 (21.08.2015)

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Urheber: Adams, Glenn ; Dobles, Ignacio ; Gómez, Luis H. ; Kurtiş, Tuğçe ; Molina, Ludwin E.

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.5964/jspp.v3i1.564
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021032004431841552425
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 15.08.2025, 07:26 MESZ