Interweaving rich theory on dialogism, power, and resistance together with situated scenarios addressing the production of psychological knowledge, this book explores decoloniality as it interfaces with strategic fields in psychology.
Current movements in global sentiment have raised important calls for decolonial action. In this volume an international set of authors come together to critically challenge power by considering how colonial mindsets develop and are retained. Drawing on dialogism inspired by Bakhtin, Vygotsky, and other leading thinkers of dialogicality, the book focuses on dialogue and how it is tied to the ability to think in ways outside colonial mindsets. It challenges approaches that run the risk of bypassing how fundamental colonialism has become for human thinking, and incorporates visions to consider how, both conceptually and methodologically, a postcolonial or decolonial psychology can be done. In so doing, it guides readers beyond the status quo to consider a program to improve psychology, formulate a new psychological culture, and bring about discussion beyond the permanent yet generative tension between liberating and subordinating psychologies.
The book will be key reading for theoretical and critical psychology scholars and postgraduate students, particularly those interested in community engagement and decolonizing psychology. It will also be of interest to those engaged in research in Bakhtian studies, critical theory, and power studies.
Interweaving rich theory on dialogism, power, and resistance together with situated scenarios addressing the production of psychological knowledge, this book explores decoloniality as it interfaces with strategic fields in psychology.
1. Introduction & Guide to the Perplexed: Orientation to Decolonial
Psychology and Dialogues of Resistance James Cresswell and Aimen Shamsi.
2.
Inner Speech, Inner Genres, and the Politics of the Mind Antonia Larrain.
3.Ruptures & Coloniality: On the Barriers to Authentic Contestation of Power
and Cultivation of Ironic Reflexivity James Cresswell and Breeanne Nickel.
4.
Decolonizing the Mind: Erasing Habituated Genres and Constructing New Genres
through Inner Dialogue Lakshmi Bandlamudi.
5. Freedom of Thought in M. M.
Bakhtins Ideas of Dialogue and Heteroglossia. Resisting Todays Colonization
of Digital Communication: Perspectives of GWF Hegel on the Development of
Self-Consciousness Atsushi Tajima.
6. Decolonial Psychology in a Zone of
Proximal Development: From Monism to Pluralism Paul Sullivan, John Ackroyd,
and Hannah Intezar.
7. The Colonial Birth of a Pioneer: The Transformations
of Waclaw Radecki as a Relevant Figure in Historical Texts of Brazilian
Psychology Arthur Arruda Leal Ferreira, Luiz Eduardo Prado da Fonseca, Hugo
Leonardo Rocha Silva da Rosa, and Marcus Vinķcius Amaral do Gama Santos.
8.
Precolonial, Colonial, Decolonial, and Metacolonial Psychologies: A Narrative
Review of the Academic Production Hernįn Camilo Pulido-Martķnez, Alba Luz
Giraldo-Tamayo, Mauricio Rene Baez Alayon, and Javier Betancourt.
9.
Conclusion Arthur Arruda Leal Ferreira and Atsushi Tajima.
James Cresswell is Full Professor of Psychology at Ambrose University, Canada. His research interests range from critical/decolonial psychology to cognitive science. All of it focusses on linking critical/cultural theory and community-based advocacy research. Specific content areas of research include poverty, language, immigration, sport, and technology. He serves as editor for the Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. He is a research affiliate with the Canadian Poverty Institute and is a member of the Newcomer Research Network. His work at Ambrose University involves a deep commitment to education and enhancing the student experience.
Atsushi Tajima is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Global Studies at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan, where he has been since 2012. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Tsukuba, Japan, in 2006. He has published papers and books mainly on theoretical investigations of the dialogic theories of M.M. Bakhtin, with a particular focus on improving intercultural communication in school education. He has received an Outstanding Paper Award (2007) and Kido Award (2009) from the Japanese Association of Educational Psychology for his contributed papers.
Arthur Arruda Leal Ferreira is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the History of Psychology at the UNED, Spain, and Janveriana University, Colombia, and is a Full Professor at the Institute of Psychology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil. He has recently edited the following books: Governamentalidade e prįticas psicológicas: a gestćo pela liberdade, Para além da psicofķsica: Fechner e as visões diurna e noturna, Psicologia, Tecnologia e Sociedade, A pluralidade do campo psicológico, Teoria Ator-Rede e a Psicologia, and História da Psicologia: Rumos e Percursos. He has also contributed to the books: Explicaciones en Psicologķa, Neoliberalism and Technoscience, and ANT Companion.
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