American Psychologist Special Issue Call for Papers
Towards a decolonial psychology: Recentering and reclaiming global marginalized knowledges
Letter of intent deadline: October 15, 2023—submit by email at [email protected]
Manuscript submission deadline: March 15, 2024
Special issue editors: Sunil Bhatia, Ronelle Carolissen, Nuria Ciofalo, and Alexandra Rutherford
The guest editors of American Psychologist invite you to submit your paper to a special issue on decolonizing psychology. Decolonizing is an ethical commitment that involves dismantling the colonial structure of EuroAmerican psychology by asking questions about what counts as knowledge, whose knowledge is valid, who controls the production of knowledge, who is deemed an expert, and whom are we accountable to in our psychological research and for what purposes.
This issue specifically invites contributors from different countries, cultural contexts, and social locations to provide readers with a useful mapping of the diverse, co-existing bodies of decolonial research that have proliferated in psychology, especially over the past ten years.
We welcome submissions on interdisciplinary themes and topics including:
- decolonial concepts, theories and ideas as alternatives to Eurocentric psychology;
- decolonial psychology and social justice, liberation, neoliberalism, globalization;
- colonization, empire and racism and constructions of being, relationality, selfhood and community;
- recentering of voices from below and expansion of marginalized voices;
- rethinking indigeneity and Indigenous psychology from a decolonial perspective;
- application of decolonial psychological frameworks to local practices;
- and much more.
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