Abstract
The debate on community social psychology (CSP) in Latin America has intensified around the encounters-disencounters between the state institutionalization of the psychosocial discourse and its theoretical-methodological and ethical-political foundations oriented to human welfare and social justice. We develop a critical reflection on two levels. One internal, related to the praxis of the struggle for-place in the urban periphery of Quito, in dialogue with the precepts of the knowledge/doing of the PSC. The other external, related to the novel contributions that have been developing analytical approaches on decoloniality, interculturality and territoriality. We conclude that we are experiencing a reduction of the field of action of the CSP, which has moved from the discourses/practices of social transformation to those of improvement; and that it is necessary a re-approximation of the CSP to the popular struggles with territorial basis, and an amplification and re-actualization of the dialogue with the Latin American critical social thought.
Translated title of the contribution | Popular Struggle For-the-Place in the Urban Periphery of Quito: Critical Reflections From/On Community Social Psychology |
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Original language | Spanish (Ecuador) |
Pages (from-to) | 67-93 |
Number of pages | 27 |
Journal | Eureka: Revista Científica de Psicología |
Volume | 14 |
Issue number | 14 |
State | Published - 1 Jan 2018 |
Keywords
- Community social psychology
- Decoloniality
- Territoriality
- Urban-popular struggle
CACES Knowledge Areas
- 313A Psychology