Psychology, subjectivity and biocultural ethics: dialogue of knowledge for contemporary “untested feasibility”.

Abstract

The objective of this theoretical discussion article is to broaden the framework of analysis of historical-cultural psychology, placing itself in its relationship with the fundamental conceptual aspects for the development of a psychology aligned with the conservation and ethical assessment of biocultural diversity. Emerging from rural territories, as propitious spaces for such epistemological orientations, we understand the importance of language and semiotic mediation from a historical-cultural approach in psychology, to justify a contemporary psychology, with attention to the memory and the intersubjective and interspecies embodied relationships, in the territories. From biocultural ethics, we reflect on transformations that strengthen an integrated approach of subjectivity/individuality ‒ alterity/society ‒ culture/nature. In this way, we promote the break with the established patterns of biocultural homogenization, and we favor openings towards a psychology ethically oriented to the conservation of biological and cultural diversity, so that, from rural areas, it expands to other contexts.