Institute for Social and Health Sciences (ISHS)
ISHS scholars form part of special issue of the Review of General Psychology
A special issue of the Review of General Psychology, entitled Decolonial Perspectives in (and on) Psychology is now available and features scholars from Unisa’s Institute for Social and Health Sciences (ISHS).
The Review of General Psychology is the official publication of the Society for General Psychology, Division 1 of the American Psychological Association. The Review of General Psychology publishes theoretical, conceptual, and methodological articles that have a range of foci, including human subjectivity, historical, theoretical, or critical studies of psychology, and global, international, or indigenous perspectives on general psychology. Articles draw on the psychological sciences and/or the psychological humanities and contribute to dialogues with cognate fields in the social or human sciences, including science and technology studies.
According to the Decolonial Psychology Editorial Collective of the special issue, “critics have faulted the project of general psychology for conceptions of general truth that, emphasise basic processes abstracted from context, and, that rest on a narrow foundation of research among people in enclaves of Eurocentric modernity. “
In their article, General Psychology Otherwise: A Decolonial Articulation, are informed by these critiques, and propose decolonial perspectives as a new scholarly imaginary. “Whereas hegemonic articulations of general psychology tend to ignore life in majority-world communities as something peripheral to its knowledge project, decolonial perspectives regard these communities as a privileged site for general understanding”.
They state: “Indeed, the epistemic standpoint of such communities is especially useful for understanding the coloniality inherent in modern individualist lifeways and the fundamental relationality of human existence.”
Additionally, the explain that “similarly, whereas hegemonic articulations of general psychology tend to impose particular Eurocentric forms masquerading as general laws, the decolonial vision for general psychology Otherwise exchanges the univerzalised particular for a more pluralistic (or pluriversal) general”.
The following articles and scholars are featured in the special issue:
- Guest Editor: Decolonial Psychology Editorial Collective: Glenn Adams, Kopano Ratele, Geetha Reddy and Shahnaaz Suffla.
- General Psychology Otherwise: A Decolonial Articulation: Shahnaaz Suffla, Geetha Reddy, Kopano Ratele, Glenn Adams and Garth Stevens.
- Roots and Routes Toward Decoloniality Within and Outside Psychology Praxis: Jesica Siham Fernandez, Christopher C. Sonn, Ronelle Carolissen, and Garth Stevens.
- Teaching Community Psychology Decolonially: A Pedagogical Journey: Martin Terre Blanche, Eduard Fourie, and Puleng Segalo.
- Back to the Source: Moving Upstream in the Curricular Rivers of Coloniality: Susan James and Helene Lorenz.
- Time-Space Distanciation as a Decolonizing Framework for Psychology: Harrison J. Schmitt, Isaac F. Young, Lucas A. Keefer, Roman Palitsky, Sheridan A. Stewart, Alexis N. Goad, and Daniel Sullivan.
- Coloniality and Psychology: From Silencing to Re-Centering Marginalized Voices in Postcolonial Times: Sunil Bhatia and Kumar Ravi Priya.
- A Decolonial Africa(n)-Centered Psychology of Antiracism: Nick Malherbe, Kopano Ratele, Glenn Adams, Geetha Reddy, and Shahnaaz Suffla.
Click here to read Decolonial Perspectives in (and on) Psychology.
Information sourced from the SAGE Journals Website.
* Compiled by Rivonia Naidu-Hoffmeester
Publish date: 2021-12-10 00:00:00.0
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