Abstract

OLIVEIRA, Douglas Casarotto de; ALMEIDA, Lúcia  and  OLIVEIRA, Rafael Wolski de. Decolonial participatory research: movements of thoughts between Earth and Mars. Rev. Polis Psique [online]. 2019, vol.9, n.spe, pp. 107-127. ISSN 2238-152X.

This paper aims to problematize the invisible colonialism present in the research practices. Inspired by the decolonial perspective and by the perspective of the philosophy of difference, the authors choose to utilize fictional elements to put into question the role of the researcher, mainly, the worker-researcher in their encounter with the research field. The text moves through the problem that arises amid-subjects, amid-places and amid-knowledges of and in the research, seeking to discuss the possibility of a decolonial research. The article proposes, even for methodologies in which the research and the researcher constitute in the process of investigation, that the researcher is alert to the “colonizer who inhabits themselves”. It's about being aware to the fact that just being in the field sets a difference in relation to the other, putting him in a threshold colonizer/not colonizer.

Keywords : participatory research; decolonial perspective; social psychology.

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