What and for whom is a decolonising African psychology?

被引:13
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作者
Malherbe, Nick [1 ,2 ]
Ratele, Kopano
机构
[1] Univ South Africa, Inst Social & Hlth Sci, POB 19070, ZA-7505 Tygerberg, South Africa
[2] Univ South Africa, South African Med Res Council, Masculin & Hlth Res Unit, POB 19070, ZA-7505 Tygerberg, South Africa
基金
英国医学研究理事会;
关键词
African psychology; decolonial; decolonising; praxis; transdisciplinarity; COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY; SOUTH-AFRICA; COLONIALITY; ENGAGEMENT;
D O I
10.1177/09593543211027231
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Contributing to work that locates the place of psychology in countering coloniality, we explore in this article what and for whom is a decolonising African psychology. We answer these questions not with a definitive statement, but through several moves, signals, and routes. First, we conceptualise African psychology as a kind of transdisciplinary praxis that occurs within psychology as well as outside of the received bounds of the discipline. However, rooting this praxis-oriented psychology within a decolonial attitude ensures that African psychology takes emancipated visions of Africa and of the world from Africa-rather than the disciplinary dictums of psychology-as its starting point. Then, in considering for whom a decolonising African psychology is for, we insist that such a psychology, taken as transdisciplinary praxis, is ultimately for everyone in its humanistic commitment to those lives that have been partialised under coloniality. This commitment does not, however, render a decolonising African psychological praxis immune to recuperation, and measures must be taken to guard against this.
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页码:116 / 130
页数:15
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