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The Revolution Will Not Be Psychologized, Part 2 (Interview w/ Báyò Akómoláfé)

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The Urgency to Decenter Western Psychology

"I have felt the need to say more about the colonial dynamics at work within the discipline of psychology," he says. "It's because Western psychology is complicit in the creation of Western modernity." The Anthropocene, climate chaos and police brutality are all matters of those stories that we're telling,. So we need a way out. It's one way of saying also that what we're battling with as a civilization today, the Anthropocene,climate chaos, police brutality ... All of this is tied in with the historicity of psychology".

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