Decolonial Dynamics of Memories on the Frontier of Social Psychology

How have decolonial practices mobilized Brazilian psychology’s state of the art in the modernity/coloniality conjuncture that has become permanent in the structures of knowledge, politics, and science? The hypothesis of this article suggests that the reasons for global inequalities, arising from longue durée antinomies, responsible for modalities of psychic suffering, regimes of colonialities, and environmental injustice, have mobilized progressive epistemic territories on the frontier of Brazilian social psychology. In the analysis of this hypothesis, three axes of discussion will guide the research: (1) conceptual links between decolonial memory and social exclusion; (2) study of the concept of aesthetics: ancient, modern, and decolonial; (3) transmodernity and the ethos of South American criticism. The article conducts a frontier study in Social Psychology to face up to the reasons for global inequalities responsible for the relation between psychic suffering and environmental injustice.