This article provides a theoretical introduction to a two-installment special issue on decolonial approaches to the psychological study of social issues. Decolonial approaches propose that colonial violence is not confined to the distant past (i.e., colonialism); instead, it persists as coloniality: racialized ways of thinking and being associated with Eurocentric global domination. Rather than characterizing modernity and its individualist psychological manifestations as progress, decolonial theorists use modernity/coloniality to illuminate the colonial violence inherent in the modern order and inseparable from modern individualist development. One implication of a decolonial framework is that colonial violence extends beyond physical space to psychological space, such that complete liberation requires forms of psychological decolonization. Accordingly, articles in this first installment consider decoloniality as a social issue for psychological analysis not only to address historical trauma, internalized inferiority, and other forms of psychological violence among the (formerly) colonized but also to recognize the coloniality in features of Eurocentric modernity—e.g., mainstream environmentalism, prevailing articulations of human rights education, or modern individualist lifeways—that appear liberal or progressive.

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非殖民性作为心理学研究的社会问题

本文对关于社会问题心理学研究的非殖民主义方法的两期特刊进行了理论介绍。非殖民主义方法提出，殖民暴力并不局限于遥远的过去（即殖民主义）；相反，它作为殖民性存在：种族化的思维方式以及与欧洲中心的全球统治联系在一起。非殖民主义理论家没有将现代性及其个人主义心理表现描述为进步，而是使用现代性/殖民性阐明现代秩序中固有的、与现代个人主义发展密不可分的殖民暴力。非殖民主义框架的一个含义是，殖民暴力从物理空间延伸到心理空间，因此完全解放需要心理非殖民化的形式。因此，第一期的文章将非殖民性视为心理分析的一个社会问题，不仅要解决（以前）被殖民者之间的历史创伤、内化自卑和其他形式的心理暴力，还要承认欧洲中心现代性​​特征中的殖民性——例如，主流环保主义、人权教育的流行表述或现代个人主义生活方式——这些都显得自由或进步。