Reflections to counter-colonize, decolonize and de-patriarchalize psychology

Abstract:

This theoretical review reflects on the colonial structures and continuity between modern colonialism and global coloniality. In problematizing modern/colonial hegemonic Psychology, we identified some expressions of colonial reproduction, particularly the epistemic silencing of traditional and ancestral peoples. We articulate reflections on black feminisms, ch’ixi epistemology and biointeraction that inspire the counter-colonization, decolonization and de-patriarchalization of Psychology as core positions for other psychologies, without disregarding the risk of recolonization pointed out by Silvia Rivera-Cusicanqui ( 2010 ). Hence, we point to the emergence of counter-hegemonic psychologies capable of mobilizing, flourishing, and redefining themselves as an expression of knowledge committed to the peoples of the earth and to life.

Keywords:
epistemology; decolonial; psychology