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Decolonizing Empowerment: Implications for Sustainable Well‐Being
Author(s) -
Kurtiş Tuğçe,
Adams Glenn,
EstradaVillalta Sara
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
analyses of social issues and public policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.479
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1530-2415
pISSN - 1529-7489
DOI - 10.1111/asap.12120
Subject(s) - empowerment , humanity , maasai , sociology , colonialism , harm , psychological intervention , perspective (graphical) , gender studies , political science , psychology , social psychology , socioeconomics , law , artificial intelligence , psychiatry , computer science , tanzania
Dutt, Grabe, and Castro's (2015) research on implications of market participation for Maasai women's empowerment provides an important basis for rethinking liberatory standards of psychological science and international gender development. Drawing upon their research, we apply a decolonial feminist psychology analysis to the topic of empowerment. This perspective suggests that neoliberal interventions to promote empowerment and well‐being in Majority‐World spaces (i) may cause harm by depriving people of environmentally afforded connection and (ii) reproduce historical and ongoing forms of (neo)colonial domination in ways that are inconsistent with the broader empowerment of humanity in general.