Precarious engagements and the politics of knowledge production: Listening to calls for reorienting hegemonic social psychology

In this paper, we invite psychologists to reflect on and recognize how knowledge is produced in the field of social psychology. Engaging with the work of decolonial, liberation and critical psychology scholars, we provide a six-point lens on precarity that facilitates a deeper understanding of knowledge production in hegemonic social psychology and academia at large. We conceptualize knowledge reproduction in psychology as five interdependent cogs within the neoliberal machinery of academia: its epistemological foundations rooted in coloniality, the methods and standards it uses, the documentation of its knowledge, the dissemination of its knowledge and the universalization of psychological theories. We join scholars around the world in calling for a much-needed disciplinary shift that centres solutions to the many forms of violence that are inflicted upon marginalized members of the global majority.