Description
Arguably, most of the psychological science knowledge that circulates around the world comes from the countries located in the North Atlantic: United States, United Kingdom, France and Germany. As a consequence, psychology in the global south is heavily influenced by mid-twentieth century American Psychology, this has often meant that the discipline has replicated American cultural ideals onto local contexts. In doing so, psychology has become a means of erasing local psychologies and socially relevant ideas. Therefore, the call to decolonise is not a new one, but in recent years it has been gaining traction and gathering form.This conference presents a platform to critical thinkers to challenge hegemonies of cultural dominance and essentialisms and to interrogate the exclusion, silencing, invisibility and the inaudibility of work by scholars from the wider global south regions. Particular themes will allow room for attention to be called to systematic distortions of meanings of contributions and the diminished status assigned to the work/knowledge produced from the global south regions.
| Period | 26 May 2023 |
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| Event type | Conference |