Peripheral Lives, Central Meanings: How the Global South Can Participate in Reimagining Psychology for the Future
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Emerging from an invited lecture presentation at the APA conference in 2024, this article discusses how communities of the Global South can actively participate in the future of psychology theory, research, practice and publication. It is abundantly clear that psychology is a product of Euro-American academic practice, with the transportation of knowledge from this region to the rest of the world. Inevitably, there have been many concerns about this transfer of the model to regions that are vastly different in their ontological orientations. After a brief overview of the key issues in this global epistemic imbalance, we raise some critical theoretical and methodological possibilities based on scholarship from other regions to make our case for the future of psychology as a global human science.
Authors: Nandita Chaudhary, Mila Tuli, Punya Pillai
Institutions: Universidade Federal da Bahia, University of Delhi
Language: English
Subfield: General Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4408202863