The Importance Of Decolonial Narratives

The Case Of Work Psychology In Rio De Janeiro

Authors

Marcus Vinícius do Amaral Gama Santos University Federal of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6827-4580
Arthur Arruda Leal Ferreira Institute of Psychology of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2059-8877

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7146/irtp.v2i1.142793

Keywords:

decolonization, history of psychology, work psychology, historiography

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss the importance of decolonial narratives in general and in the field of history of psychology in particular. For this, we take as the starting point the initial results of a recently published empirical study, which investigated different styles of management within the scope of labor in Rio de Janeiro between 1949 and 1965 through the analysis of publications of the journal Arquivos Brasileiros de Psicologia. Such results pointed to an inadequacy between the interpretations of the management styles that are used, on the one hand, in the English and North American context and, on the other, in Rio de Janeiro. The discussion of this article focuses on this inadequacy, underlining the differences between how colonial and decolonial narratives conceive the relationship between empirical data and intelligibility matrices and the historiographical and methodological consequences of this relationship.

Author Biographies

Marcus Vinícius do Amaral Gama Santos , University Federal of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Marcus Vinícius do Amaral Gama Santos is currently based at the Institute of Psychology (Department of Social Psychology) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) as a temporary Professor. His current research centers on the subjective impacts issuing from the development and application of new sex-technologies, as worked out by the Philosopher Paul Preciado

Arthur Arruda Leal Ferreira, Institute of Psychology of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Arthur Arruda Leal Ferreira is currently based at the Institute of Psychology of UFRJ and post-graduate program in History of Sciences and Techniques and Epistemology (HCTE) and Psychology (UFRJ and UFF).

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Published

2023-12-23

How to Cite

Amaral Gama Santos, M. V., & Leal Ferreira, A. A. (2023). The Importance Of Decolonial Narratives: The Case Of Work Psychology In Rio De Janeiro. International Review of Theoretical Psychologies, 2(1), 94–111. https://doi.org/10.7146/irtp.v2i1.142793

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Issue

Vol. 2 No. 1 (2023): Building Community: Theoretical Psychology in the Service of Social Issues

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