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Psychology and Rural Contexts: Psychosocial Dialogues
The rural contexts open an investigative and professional action frontline for psychology. However, there are epistemological challenges to meet such...
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Reflections on Nurturing the Tree of Psychology in India
During its disciplinary voyage in India, a tremendous change has taken place in the field of psychology during the last hundred years. It is...
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Africa’s Knowledge Archives, Black Consciousness and Reimagining Community Psychology
In this chapter, we argue that the quest for decolonised community psychologies must necessarily engage with multiple knowledge archives. We draw on...
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Psychology in India: A Discipline in Search of Its Identity
The difference between the context of generation of knowledge and context of application of that knowledge is significant. A valid form of...
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Disrupting the Psychology Canon? Exploring African-Centered Decolonial Pedagogy
The call for decolonisation has led to the unsettling of the status quo within most institutions of higher education in South Africa. We contend that...
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The Pandemic is a Mirror: Decolonizing Psychology and Racism in Times of COVID-19 Crisis
In this paper, I draw on decolonial and decolonizing frameworks to understand how COVID-19 is disproportionately devastating Black communities in the...
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Culturing the Mind: China as a Glocal Site of Epistemological Innovation
Modern scientific psychology came into being with a pursuit of universalistic knowledge. As an analytic category, culture was a latecomer and it...
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Thinking Beyond Domestication of the Colonial Knowledge
This commentary on one of D. Sinha’s articles is organised into three parts. In the first part, the narrowness of the scientific worldview and the...
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Global Psychology from Indigenous Perspectives Visions Inspired by K. S. Yang
This volume celebrates the visions of a more equitable global psychology as inspired by the late Professor K. S. Yang, one of the founders of the...
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Migration, Trauma, and Spirituality: Intercultural, Collective, and Contextual Understanding and Treatment of Trauma for Displaced Communities
This article examines the traumatic impact of migration on displaced individuals and communities across the globe. Because migrants flee their...
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“Black Skin, White Masks” by Frantz Fanon
Black Skin, White Masks, by the experimental psychiatrist and anti-colonial militant Franz Fanon, is regarded as a seminal text in the fields of...
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Introduction: The Personal Is Still Political
This chapter lays out the argument for a psychological humanities, as well as the theoretical framework for ideas developed in the rest of the book....
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Psychology and critique – forms of psychologization after 1945: An introduction
Current psychology has gone to hell – according to some critical voices from within the discipline, which find a forum in the critical science blog...
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Decolonizing Pakistani International Relations
Coloniality of knowledge is a global phenomenon; yet each (post)colonial society experienced colonialism differently and developed their local...
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Well-Intentioned White People and Other Problems with Liberalism
This chapter focuses on liberalism and neoliberalism as both constituents and consequences of the emergence of the psy disciplines through specific...
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The Palgrave Handbook of Psychosocial Studies
Over the past decades, psychosocial studies has demonstrated its strengths and influence across diverse sites of theory and practice; it continues to...
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Resistance as a Cultural Universal of Human Psyche: a Dialectical View
In its overall intent, the paper aims to instantiate the Valsinerian (
2018 ) proposal of resistance as a fundamental process of human psyche. It...
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Shall the Twain Ever Meet? The Cultural Politics of Psychoanalysis in India
Drawing upon the postcolonial science studies framework, this chapter explores some of the major facets of psychoanalysis’s academic and professional...
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Coloniality of being and knowledge in the history of psychology
The emergence and growth of the psy-disciplines, accompanied by the psychologization of everyday life, has raised questions about the role of...