Decolonial Psychology and Dialogues of Resistance

James Cresswell is Full Professor of Psychology at Ambrose University, Canada. His research interests range from critical/decolonial psychology to cognitive science. All of it focusses on linking critical/cultural theory and community-based advocacy research. Specific content areas of research include poverty, language, immigration, sport, and technology. He serves as editor for the Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. He is a research affiliate with the Canadian Poverty Institute and is a member of the Newcomer Research Network. His work at Ambrose University involves a deep commitment to education and enhancing the student experience.Atsushi Tajima is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Global Studies at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan, where he has been since 2012. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Tsukuba, Japan, in 2006. He has published papers and books mainly on theoretical investigations of the dialogic theories of M.M. Bakhtin, with a particular focus on improving intercultural communication in school education. He has received an Outstanding Paper Award (2007) and Kido Award (2009) from the Japanese Association of Educational Psychology for his contributed papers. Arthur Arruda Leal Ferreira is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the History of Psychology at the UNED, Spain, and Janveriana University, Colombia, and is a Full Professor at the Institute of Psychology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil. He has recently edited the following books: Governamentalidade e práticas psicológicas: a gestão pela liberdade, Para além da psicofísica: Fechner e as visões diurna e noturna, Psicologia, Tecnologia e Sociedade, A pluralidade do campo psicológico, Teoria Ator-Rede e a Psicologia, and História da Psicologia: Rumos e Percursos. He has also contributed to the books: Explicaciones en Psicología, Neoliberalism and Technoscience, and ANT Companion.

• 1. Introduction & Guide to the Perplexed: Orientation to Decolonial Psychology and Dialogues of Resistance James Cresswell and Aimen Shamsi. 2. Inner Speech, Inner Genres, and the Politics of the Mind Antonia Larrain. 3.Ruptures & Coloniality: On the Barriers to Authentic Contestation of Power and Cultivation of Ironic Reflexivity James Cresswell and Breeanne Nickel. 4. Decolonizing the Mind: Erasing Habituated Genres and Constructing New Genres through Inner Dialogue Lakshmi Bandlamudi. 5. “Freedom” of Thought in M. M. Bakhtin’s Ideas of Dialogue and Heteroglossia. Resisting Today’s Colonization of Digital Communication: Perspectives of GWF Hegel on the Development of Self-Consciousness Atsushi Tajima. 6. Decolonial Psychology in a Zone of Proximal Development: From Monism to Pluralism Paul Sullivan, John Ackroyd, and Hannah Intezar. 7. The Colonial Birth of a Pioneer: The Transformations of Waclaw Radecki as a Relevant Figure in Historical Texts of Brazilian Psychology Arthur Arruda Leal Ferreira, Luiz Eduardo Prado da Fonseca, Hugo Leonardo Rocha Silva da Rosa, and Marcus Vinícius Amaral do Gama Santos. 8. Precolonial, Colonial, Decolonial, and Metacolonial Psychologies: A Narrative Review of the Academic Production Hernán Camilo Pulido-Martínez, Alba Luz Giraldo-Tamayo, Mauricio Rene Baez Alayon, and Javier Betancourt. 9. Conclusion Arthur Arruda Leal Ferreira and Atsushi Tajima.