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AUSTRALIAN PSYCHOLOGIST
Volume 39, Issue 2, Pages 118-126Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1080/00050060410001701834
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In this paper I employ the notion of a socially accountable psychology (Davidson, 1998) to explore the whiteness of psychological epistemologies. I suggest that within a multicultural society psychology needs to develop an understanding of the ways that white systems of representation shape pedagogy and practice. In order to do this, I first outline the ways in which the discipline may be conceptualised as a cultural practice that is both informed by, and constitutive of, racialised practices in Australia. I then outline a constructionist approach to understanding psychical processes that values multiple, contextual understandings of knowledge production. I conclude by suggesting that we as white psychologists need to pay particular attention to the politics of therapy, and the privileges that we hold.
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