Taskforce on Indigenous Psychological Research (External organisation)

Salma Siddique (Participant)

Social Anthropology

Activity: Membership types › Membership of research network

Description

Indigenous Psychology is an intellectual movement across the globe, based on the following factors:

A reaction against the colonization/hegemony of Western psychology.
The need for non-Western cultures to solve their local problems through indigenous practices and applications.
The need for a non-Western culture to recognize itself in the constructs and practices of psychology.
The need to use indigenous philosophies and concepts to generate theories of global discourse.

Period	14 Feb 2022
Held at	Taskforce on Indigenous Psychological Research, United States
Degree of Recognition	International

Keywords

Western
colonisation/hegemony
indigenous philosophies
theories of global discourse
indigenous psychologies
Indigenous Epistemologis

Documents & Links

Psychology, like any other language game, is a living conversation, for which translation is the key to the perpetuation and permutation of the discourse. As Western psychology is translated into other cultures, the more we make sure that the influence is going both ways, and the more we allow conflicting voices to inhabit the terms we use in psychology, the more likely it is that alternative ways of doing psychological science will emerge.