Abstract

SMITS, OETSIA VARGAS; CALAIS, LARA BRUM DE  and  OLIVEIRA, PEDRO RENAN SANTOS DE. Community, common, communality: paths against the colonizing modes of psychology. Rev. psicol. polít. [online]. 2023, vol.23, n.58, pp.645-659.  Epub July 08, 2024. ISSN 2175-1390.

This article aimed to analyze the conditions the construction meaning community being/doing in opposition to the modes of subjectivation of life derived from the hegemonic capitalist-colonizer model in Latin America. Of a theoretical nature and through narrative review research, the proposed critical reflections were organized into analytical axes. In the first axis, through a brief historical trajectory of social-community psychology and amid concerns about coloniality and its effects, the (mis)encounters of psychology with Latin American community being/doing in scenarios of rise were discussed. In the second, it was argued about the search for the meaning of the “common” in psychological praxis, as an ethical-political horizon that creates conditions for the possibilities of an insurgent psychology. By weaving clues for a possible (re)encounter of Psychology with the community being, inflected by the common and communality, challenges posed to produce holes in the capitalist-colonial-patriarchal project present in the dominant being/doing in Psychology were pointed out.

Keywords : Coloniality; Community Psychology; History of psychology; Psychological practices.

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