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Psychology as a site for decolonial analysis

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ID10220752
AuthorsReadsura Decolonial Editorial Collective (corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume78
Issue2
Pages255-277
Publication date2022-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Social Issues (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-4537 • E-ISSN: 1540-4560
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/josi.12524
OpenAlexW4283693161
LanguageEN
Citations received22
References cited80

This article provides a conceptual introduction to the second installment of a two‐issue collection of work on decolonial approaches to the psychological study of social issues. Whereas papers in the first installment consider decoloniality as a social issue for psychological study, papers in this second installment consider psychology as a site for decolonial analysis. In this article, we briefly review key concepts from decolonial theory (e.g., the coloniality of modernity, distinct from historical colonialism). We then discuss manifestations of epistemic violence in hegemonic psychology that require intervention. Epistemic violence is (not merely) a matter of epistemic exclusion of racialized others from the knowledge production process, imperialist imposition of white‐washed knowledge products as universal standards without regard to context, or pathologizing forms of explanation that construct racial others as deviants in light of white‐washed standards (i.e., epistemological violence ; Teo, 2010). In addition, epistemic violence in psychology includes forms of harm (e.g., zero‐point epistemology and individualist lifeways) associated with its modern/colonial roots. Accordingly, a decolonial approach to the psychological study of social issues may require refusal of the discipline of psychology

Colonialism · Context (archaeology · Decoloniality · Epistemology · Harm · Modernity · Political science · Racism · Sociology · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Community Health and Development · Cultural Differences and Values · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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Citations per year5,5
Citation span2022 - 2026 (5)
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