“Time is our worst enemy:” Lived experiences and intercultural relations in the making of green aluminum

Normann, Susanne

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“…Other articles consider the colonial violence of modern individualist ways of being that might otherwise appear unproblematic. These include a comparative ethnographic analysis of interactions between green industry and Indigenous communities in Brazil and Norway (Normann, 2022), discourse analysis of United Nations curriculum for human rights education in Palestine (Albhaisi, 2022), and a mixed‐methods investigation of the modernity/coloniality of love and care as a function of religious participation in Ghana (Osei‐Tutu et al., 2022).…”

Section: Installment One: Decoloniality As a Social Issue For Psychol...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychology as a site for decolonial analysis

Adams

Ratele

Suffla

et al. 2022

Journal of Social Issues

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This article provides a conceptual introduction to the second installment of a two‐issue collection of work on decolonial approaches to the psychological study of social issues. Whereas papers in the first installment consider decoloniality as a social issue for psychological study, papers in this second installment consider psychology as a site for decolonial analysis. In this article, we briefly review key concepts from decolonial theory (e.g., the coloniality of modernity, distinct from historical colonialism). We then discuss manifestations of epistemic violence in hegemonic psychology that require intervention. Epistemic violence is (not merely) a matter of epistemic exclusion of racialized others from the knowledge production process, imperialist imposition of white‐washed knowledge products as universal standards without regard to context, or pathologizing forms of explanation that construct racial others as deviants in light of white‐washed standards (i.e., epistemological violence; Teo, 2010). In addition, epistemic violence in psychology includes forms of harm (e.g., zero‐point epistemology and individualist lifeways) associated with its modern/colonial roots. Accordingly, a decolonial approach to the psychological study of social issues may require refusal of the discipline of psychology.

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Section: Installment One: Decoloniality As a Social Issue For Psychol...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychology as a site for decolonial analysis

Adams

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Suffla

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“…In contrast to the disciplinary decadence or “fetishization of method” (Gordon, 2014, p.81) that often characterizes mainstream psychology (see, e.g., Wilson, 2005), the contributions are methodologically pluralist. They include quasi‐experimental comparison and quantitative analyses of survey data (Dutt et al., 2022; Osei‐Tutu et al., 2022; Rivera Pichardo et al., 2022), as well as thematic analyses of video transcripts (Burrage et al., 2022), Foucauldian discourse analysis (Albhaisi, 2022), ethnographic‐styled participant observation (Lukate, 2022; Normann, 2022), and other techniques of qualitative research (e.g., Ficklin et al., 2022). As Atallah and Dutta (2021) note in their contribution to the second installment of the special issue, “Far too often, disciplinary criteria and standards of academic excellence work to silence critical questionings by colonized people” (p. 3).…”

Section: Overview Of Contributions To the First Installmentmentioning

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“…In one article, Normann (2022) draws upon interview research with Indigenous communities in Northern Norway and the Brazilian Amazon to illuminate the concept of “green colonialism”—that is, ways in which global environmentalist movements impose solutions to the ecological or Anthropocene crisis that suppress Indigenous knowledge and reproduce relations of domination. Whereas articles in the preceding section consider issues of coloniality related to space, Normann considers issues of coloniality related to time (cf.…”

Section: Overview Of Contributions To the First Installmentmentioning

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“…Moreover, one can trace a link between this emphasis on urgency/speed and the high‐energy, unsustainable, modern/colonial individualist lifeways that predominate in Global Northern societies. As Normann (2022, p. 177) aptly notes, an APA task force on climate change “suggested already in 2009 how Western culture treats time as a resource, maximized at the expense of natural resources, as energy is required to execute more tasks in less time (Swim et al., 2009). ” Simply put, then, fast/urgent action may be ill‐suited to address the long‐term coloniality associated with the Anthropocene crisis to the extent that such action is part of the problem that it seeks to confront.…”

Section: Overview Of Contributions To the First Installmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Decoloniality as a social issue for psychological study

2022

Journal of Social Issues

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This article provides a theoretical introduction to a twoinstallment 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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“You Can Kill Us with Dialogue:” Critical Perspectives on Wind Energy Development in a Nordic-Saami Green Colonial Context

Fjellheim

2023

Hum Rights Rev

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This article explores Southern Saami reindeer herders’ experiences and contestations over state consultation and corporate dialogue during a conflict over the Øyfjellet wind energy project in Norway. Informed by a committed research approach and juxtaposition with findings from Indigenous peoples' territorial struggles in Latin-America, the article provides critical perspectives on governance practices in a Nordic-Saami green colonial context. The research draws on ethnography from a consultation meeting between Jillen Njaarke, the impacted reindeer herding community, and state authorities, as well as diverse written material. The study suggests that the state- and corporate-led “dialogues” displaced the root cause of the conflict, revealed epistemic miscommunication, and perpetuated relations of domination which limited emancipatory effects for Jillen Njaarke. The premises and discourses underpinning the “dialogues” further reproduced racist notions which devalue ancestral Saami reindeer herding knowledges, practices, and landscape relations. These findings challenge dialogue as prescription of good governance and conflict resolution in a context where democracy and compliance with Indigenous peoples’ rights are perceived as high.

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“Time is our worst enemy:” Lived experiences and intercultural relations in the making of green aluminum

Cited by 8 publications

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Psychology as a site for decolonial analysis

Psychology as a site for decolonial analysis

Decoloniality as a social issue for psychological study

“You Can Kill Us with Dialogue:” Critical Perspectives on Wind Energy Development in a Nordic-Saami Green Colonial Context

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