Revisiting our frameworks of intelligibility: dialogues between Community Social Psychology, Feminist Epistemologies and decolonial thought.

Abstract

The current context of civilizational crisis challenges us to revisit our frameworks of intelligibility. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated this crisis, while simultaneously becoming an opportunity for collective organization to address emerging needs. In this article, we propose a theoretical reflection on these collective processes that we have supported in this context. To this end, we believe it is necessary to articulate the approaches of Community Social Psychology with Feminist Epistemologies and decolonial thought. This dialogue allows us to recover the contributions of Community Social Psychology in this context and identify its limitations in terms of the horizons of understanding that need to be expanded. At the same time, it makes it possible to revisit our ways of inhabiting research processes and methodologies. We begin from a critical perspective that questions and seeks to overcome the dichotomous and hierarchical perspectives of modern thought: reason-emotion, nature-culture, production-reproduction. These shifts lead us to consider a situated approach that fosters sensitive and responsible ways of doing research for a collective understanding of the emotional and relational frameworks that sustain life in crisis contexts.