Dear Colleagues,
Forgive the ego-centric posting, but some colleagues and I are very excited about the publication of our edited volume entitled: “Decolonial Psychology and Dialogues of Resistance Addressing Processes of Subjectification in Local Realities“. We suggest that it may be of interest to members of ISTP and Division 24.
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.
More information about the book can be found here.
Sincerely,
James Cresswell, Atsushi Tajima, & Arthur Arruda Leal Ferreira