COSTA, Frederico Alves. Challenges for Brazilian political psychology: the insertion in Graduate Programs and the delimitation as a field of knowledge. []. , 18, 42, pp.220-235. ISSN 1519-549X.

This article's objective is debating the consolidation of political psychology in Brazil focusing on two main subjects: a) the insertion of political psychology in Brazilian Graduate Programs (BGP); b) the delimitation of political psychology in the country. We will address these subjects from the observation that just a reduced number of researchers who work in BGP in Social Psychology or Psychology and who investigate political themes identify political psychology as an area or sub-area of research field in the curriculum Lattes. In order to accomplish the debate we turned to Messages of Direction of Brazilian Association of Political Psychology (ABPP) and the editorials published in 32 numbers of Political Psychology Journal (RPP), ABPP's vehicle of scientific dissemination. In addition, we conceive science as a social practice, moving away of a linear comprehension of the history of science, seeking to under-stand the construction of a scientific field through discursive disputes between divergent positions about its delimitation.

: political psychology in Brazil; Brazilian Association of Political Psychology; Political Psychology Journal; discursive disputes; political positioning.

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