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

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: 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)

Contributors, Places and Time

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

Further information

• DOI: 10.5964/jspp.v3i1.564
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021032004431841552425
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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