Notes on Coloniality and Social Psychology

Abstract

This article discusses the construction of narratives from the field of Social Psychology, seeking to demarcate the onto-epistemology from which they are situated. To this end, the supposedly neutral perspective of Western and modern science is problematized, pointing to the construction of a politics of positions as a path to be taken within decolonization studies. Some debates produced in Social Psychology within this field are also analyzed, highlighting the clashes and paradoxes that arise there, without the intention of finding the right way to build counter-narratives to coloniality, but rather an attempt to move away from the traps of capitalistic logic and whiteness. It is not a matter of escaping such traps, since we depart from them as constituents of our positionalities, but rather about focusing on them, problematizing our conditions of possibility by tensioning them through an intersectional critical framework. Therefore, it is not intended to deny the plots that connect us to the ecosystems of capitalist whiteness in coloniality, but to tension and displace such lines that mark our onto-epistemes in their ethical-aesthetic-political statements.