Overview of 3 approaches to decolonizing psychology

What is it about?

Knowledge in psychology has its basis in Western, educated, industrial, rich and (supposedly) democratic (i.e., WEIRD) settings associated with the modern global order. Our analysis of submissions to a special issue suggests three approaches to decolonizing psychology: (1) indigenous resistance to imposition of WEIRD standards; (2) outsider expert accompaniment of marginalized communities in struggles for social justice; and (3) denaturalization to reveal the WEIRD roots of patterns that hegemonic accounts portray as "just" natural.

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Why is it important?

The article is one of the first to apply perspectives of Decolonial Theory to hegemonic psychological science. Authors from the Liberation Psychology Collective (Costa Rica) and the Cultural Psychology Research Group (USA) report results of their collaborative project as a contribution to a special issue of the South African Journal of Psychology dedicated to the topic of decolonizing psychology.