Lucha Popular Por-el-lugar en la Periferia Urbana de Quito: Reflexiones Críticas Desde/sobre La Psicología Social Comunitaria

Translated title of the contribution: Popular Struggle For-the-Place in the Urban Periphery of Quito: Critical Reflections From/On Community Social Psychology

Gino Eduardo Grondona Opazo, Hector Marcelo Rodriguez Mancilla

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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 contributionPopular Struggle For-the-Place in the Urban Periphery of Quito: Critical Reflections From/On Community Social Psychology
Original languageSpanish (Ecuador)
Pages (from-to)67-93
Number of pages27
JournalEureka: Revista Científica de Psicología
Volume14
Issue number14
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2018

Keywords

  • Community social psychology
  • Decoloniality
  • Territoriality
  • Urban-popular struggle

CACES Knowledge Areas

  • 313A Psychology

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