Research: Decolonisation of Knowledge Constructs/Reality: Social Representations, Critical Reflections and Insider Perspectives in Social Sciences
My research examines decolonisation, social representations, and the geopolitics of knowledge (production), focusing on how psychology and academia reproduce or resist colonial power. Broadly, I am interested in collective action, and the affective and symbolic dimensions of violence in political and revolutionary movements, My work also looks at how communities articulate resistance in light of systemic oppression, and how emotions such as anger and hope become mobilising forces for (social) change. Additionally, I draw on Dialogical Self Theory and use autoethnography as a reflexive and decolonial methodological approach to explore identity, positionality, and selfhood from within these power structures. As an academic activist, my goal is to engage in scholarship that remains politically conscious and aligned with the principles for which I advocate.