Psychology, critique, social change? Contributions to the politization of psychological experience and research

Abstract

This introductory article to the special issue insists (once again) on the need to continue opening critical furrows around the political nature of psychological practice as a device for analysis and social action. The contributions gathered in the monograph revolve around various focuses of reflection to continue with the task of politicizing psychology. These focuses include: the articulation of reproduction and social change at the level of subjectivity; the micropolitics of domination and privilege; the politicization of the social and bodily experience of the territory; the institutional subalternization of minority groups; the politicizing openings of mobile methodologies; the impact of psychosocial dimensions on the transforming efficacy of public participation policies; and the dismantling of verificationism as the hegemonic thought in psychology. The monograph aims to present historically and geographically situated lines of theoretical reflection and psychosocial praxis aimed at testing the scope, limits and contradictions of the “psi” discipline in its work of social criticism and support for processes of socio-political transformation.