ABSTRACT

This collection of chapters advances critical psychology by incorporating praxis (theory and practice) and decolonial streams of thought. They are united around a theme of psychosocial non-alignment to modernity/coloniality.

Bringing together a transdisciplinary range of authors from around the world, this edited volume weaves together a spectrum of complex arguments and perspectives to lay the foundations for bridging the Global North–South divide in critical psychology through solidarity and dialogue. The book’s central argument is to emphasize praxis and transdisciplinarity over disciplinary fundamentalism. Psychology is only a starting point and not the end goal of critique in this book; incidentally, some of the authors are not even psychologists. Instead, the book draws on decolonial theoretical resources, such as Chican@ Studies, Black Male Studies, and Critical Pedagogy, to complement traditional theoretical resources like psychoanalysis, Marxism, poststructuralism, and feminism.

This groundbreaking text is suitable for scholars and upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students studying critical discourse, the psychology and philosophy of post-coloniality, conceptual and historical issues in psychology, as well as anthropology and sociology courses engaging with action research.

chapter 5|15 pages

Looking (Out) for New Masters

Assessing the Bar between Lacanianism and Critical Psychology

chapter 6|16 pages

Psychology as Business and Domination

Challenging the Colonial and the “Import–Export” Model 1

chapter 9|13 pages

Student Resistance as a Praxis Against Neoliberalism

A Critical Analysis of Chilean Public Education from 1980 to 2020

chapter 10|19 pages

Critical Deconstruction of “East Meets West”

The Lesson from Hong Kong

chapter 11|23 pages

Decolonizing the Intersection

Black Male Studies as a Critique of Intersectionality’s Indebtedness to Subculture of Violence Theory