Toward a decolonial psychology: Recentering and reclaiming global marginalized knowledges.

Résumé

Because colonialism was tailored to local geographies, any vision of decolonial psychology also needs to address the legacies of particular colonial histories. One of the central questions addressed in this special issue, "Toward a Decolonial Psychology: Recentering and Reclaiming Global Marginalized Knowledges," is what it means to create possible futures that are rooted in Indigenous cultures, place, people, and land and disentangled from colonialism and coloniality. Contributors from different countries and cultural contexts provide readers with a useful mapping of the granular, place-based decolonial research that has flourished in psychology over the past 10 years. We foreground scholarship that speaks to the lives of the majority world and to those whose lives continue to be marginalized within settler-colonial states such as the United States, Canada, and New Zealand. We highlight six distinct but related overarching themes that focus on retrieval and reclamation of global marginalized knowledges: (a) psychology's colonial past and present; (b) transnational decoloniality: beyond the binary of Global North and South; (c) race, racism, and colonial domination: psychology, materiality, and identity; (d) beyond individualism: community, relational agency, and collective liberation in decolonial psychology; (e) settler colonialism and Indigenous psychologies: reclamation of land, culture, spirituality, and ecology; (f) decolonizing psychological health: beyond resilience, neurocolonization, and biomedical approaches to well-being. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).