WRITING POLITICS AND FEMINIST AND DECOLONIAL EPISTEMOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE IN PSYCHOLOGY: ESCREVIVÊNCIA, PLACE OF SPEECH AND THE SUBALTERN VOICE AS METHOD

Abstract

This article analyzes writing politics and feminist and decolonial epistemologies as methodological possibilities for the production of knowledge in psychology, taking escrevivência, place of speech, and the subaltern voice as central conceptual operators. Considering the hegemony of Eurocentric and masculinist epistemic models that historically shaped the psi field, the objective is to discuss the contributions of authors such as Gayatri Spivak, bell hooks, Djamila Ribeiro, Gloria Anzaldúa, Conceição Evaristo, Fernanda Felisberto, Margareth Rago, Camila Sosa Villada, and Brazilian researchers in the field of psychology to the construction of research and writing practices that recognize embodiment, location, and partiality as conditions of all knowledge. To this end, a theoretical study is carried out that articulates feminist and decolonial epistemologies, escrevivência and self-writing as method, and writing politics in psychology as resistance practices. Thus, it is observed that these perspectives offer powerful tools for a psychology committed to epistemic justice and social transformation, which allows us to conclude that writing from the margins constitutes not only a methodological option but an ethical and political stance in the face of inequalities that permeate the field of knowledge production.