INDIGENOUS MOVEMENT AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY: CHALLENGES TO DIALOGICAL DECOLONIZATION

Abstract

This text synthesizes part of the exercise of living, feeling and thinking from the frontiers between Social Psychology and Indigenous Movement. Our goal is to put the psychological sciences in dialogue with the political organizations of the original peoples. We seek displace the knowledge of the colonial matrix to assume popular conceptions, being a fundamental requirement for the liberation of Psychology from its colonial epistemes. The scarcity of studies in the field of Psychology about the socio-political articulations of traditional peoples signals us to the necessary approximation and interlocution as a doing ethical-political. For that, we resorted to bibliographic research that was enhanced by our participation and monitoring of important activities of the ethnic-social movement of the Kaiowá and Guarani peoples, Aty Guasu. The reflections presented, in dialogue with the experience of the Indigenous Movement, they lead to the detachment of Psychology from the Enlightenment / Positivist-Modern / Colonial-Capitalist commitment, to the engagement to popular perspectives in resistance and the struggle for decolonization.

Keywords: Indigenous Movement; Social Psychology; Decolonial studies; Decolonization; Liberation Psychology.