Abstract
We discuss Latin American Community-Social Psychology - originally connected with critical traditions of social action (popular education, militant social sciences, philosophy of liberation) - and its reception of emerging paradigms linked to the decolonial turn, the epistemologies of the South, and its autonomist and subalternist tendencies to think about the processes of social transformation. We review how these movements would disorder and revitalize a discipline that, in its hegemonic expression, laid dormant and co-opted by bureaucratic institutionalization and neoliberal theoretical production to read and intervene in the social field. For this, we place the historical development of the discipline in the theoretical climate of three relevant moments in the configuration of the social field. We conclude with some observations on the possibilities that seem to think about the social-community in light of these emerging epistemes but also some problems/limitations worthy of consideration.
Keywords:
latin american community-social psychology; epistemologies of the South; decolonial turn