Reddy, G ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1656-8576, Suffla, S, Adams, G, Ratele, K and Stevens, G, 2021. General psychology otherwise: a decolonial articulation. Review of General Psychology, 25 (4), pp. 339-353. ISSN 1089-2680
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Abstract
Critics have faulted the project of general psychology for conceptions of general truth that (1) emphasize basic processes abstracted from context and (2) rest on a narrow foundation of research among people in enclaves of Eurocentric modernity. Informed by these critiques, we propose decolonial perspectives as a new scholarly imaginary for general psychology Otherwise. 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. 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. 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 universalized particular for a more pluralistic (or pluriversal) general.
Item Type: | Journal article |
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Publication Title: | Review of General Psychology |
Creators: | Reddy, G., Suffla, S., Adams, G., Ratele, K. and Stevens, G. |
Publisher: | Sage |
Date: | December 2021 |
Volume: | 25 |
Number: | 4 |
ISSN: | 1089-2680 |
Identifiers: | Number Type 10.1177/10892680211048177 DOI 1499750 Other |
Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences |
Record created by: | Jonathan Gallacher |
Date Added: | 19 Jan 2022 09:29 |
Last Modified: | 19 Jan 2022 09:29 |
URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/45355 |
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