چکیده (انگلیسی):

Despite unprecedented access to information and diffusion of knowledge across the globe, the bulk of work in mainstream
psychological science still reflects and promotes the interests of a privileged minority of people in affluent centers of the modern
global order. Compared to other social science disciplines, there are few critical voices who reflect on the Euro-American
colonial character of psychological science, particularly its relationship to ongoing processes of domination that facilitate growth
for a privileged minority but undermine sustainability for the global majority. Moved by mounting concerns about ongoing forms
of multiple oppression (including racialized violence, economic injustice, unsustainable over-development, and ecological
damage), we proposed a special thematic section and issued a call for papers devoted to the topic of "decolonizing psychological
science". In this introduction to the special section, we first discuss two perspectives—liberation psychology and cultural
psychology—that have informed our approach to the topic. We then discuss manifestations of coloniality in psychological
science and describe three approaches to decolonization—indigenization, accompaniment, and denaturalization—that emerge
from contributions to the special section. We conclude with an invitation to readers to submit their own original contributions
to an ongoing effort to create an online collection of digitally linked articles on the topic of decolonizing psychological science.