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Pan-Africanism and Psychology in Decolonial TimesMethodologies, Ethics, and Critical Reflexive Practices for a Pan-African Psychology

Pan-Africanism and Psychology in Decolonial Times: Methodologies, Ethics, and Critical Reflexive... [This chapter provides a brief account of how academic discourse produced by disciplines like psychology has silenced and pathologised the experiences of African people reflecting the coloniality of the discipline and ongoing epistemic violence. The chapter unpacks the coloniality of the discipline in its knowledge production machinery through illustration of historic and contemporary examples of such violence. Discussions of power, politics, representation, ethics, and critical reflexivity are engaged as ways of countering the afterlives of colonisation as they manifest in the research endeavour. The chapter ends by offering some methodological approaches that might go towards articulating a Pan-African psychology. These include, participatory action research approaches; photovoice and storytelling; and narrative methodologies. Importantly, the chapter makes the argument that traditional modes of knowledge production have reproduced the erasure, silencing, and marginalisation, especially of African people. Reimagining different ways of doing research must, of necessity, be grounded in local knowledges and it must emerge from the experiences and concerns of those who have been excluded.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Pan-Africanism and Psychology in Decolonial TimesMethodologies, Ethics, and Critical Reflexive Practices for a Pan-African Psychology

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
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978-3-030-89350-7
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123 –148
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10.1007/978-3-030-89351-4_6
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[This chapter provides a brief account of how academic discourse produced by disciplines like psychology has silenced and pathologised the experiences of African people reflecting the coloniality of the discipline and ongoing epistemic violence. The chapter unpacks the coloniality of the discipline in its knowledge production machinery through illustration of historic and contemporary examples of such violence. Discussions of power, politics, representation, ethics, and critical reflexivity are engaged as ways of countering the afterlives of colonisation as they manifest in the research endeavour. The chapter ends by offering some methodological approaches that might go towards articulating a Pan-African psychology. These include, participatory action research approaches; photovoice and storytelling; and narrative methodologies. Importantly, the chapter makes the argument that traditional modes of knowledge production have reproduced the erasure, silencing, and marginalisation, especially of African people. Reimagining different ways of doing research must, of necessity, be grounded in local knowledges and it must emerge from the experiences and concerns of those who have been excluded.]

Published: Jan 1, 2022

Keywords: Research methods; Knowledge production; Ethics; Critical reflexivity; Participatory research

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