The Future of Psychology 271that ultimately lead to the dismantling of oppression. More radical
methodologies in psychological research are emerging, such as
participatory action research, narrative, and archival projects (often
through an ethnographic lens) and the use of creative audio-visual
technologies. These are leading the way towards confronting the
coloniality of power, knowledge, and being, and its protracted effects on
the mind and the body. Fundamentally also, is the responsibility of
psychologists to be conscious of the politics of the research process, to
understand complex forms of marginality and our own limitations in
achieving socially just outcomes.
CONCLUSION
The future of psychology lies in its possibilities for self-reflection and
the expansion of its theoretical and methodological traditions. Focusing on
material, symbolic, and psychological power relations and how these
power relations manifest in everyday encounters provides a space for
psychologists to investigate issues of social justice and social change that
are fundamentally psychological. Decolonial perspectives provide a useful
framework for engaging in questions of identity, subjectivity, epistemic
justice, and praxis. Such an engagement might provide the ground work for
rehabilitating a discipline that has much to offer but also much to shed
given its historical complicity in supporting modes of inferiorisation and
control.
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