Outsider at Home: Reading Babasaheb Ambedkar as a Radical, Decolonial Psychologist

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Journal of Personality

Publication Date

2023

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Published in: Journal of Personality, vol. 91, issue 1, 2023.

Abstract

Known primarily as the architect of the constitution of India, Babasaheb Ambedkar was also a human rights lawyer, an economist, a social justice advocate, and a polymath. Yet his story is often overlooked in favor of national leaders such as Gandhi. This study highlights Ambedkar as a visionary who called for a radical and new psychology of self that was anchored in ideas of social justice, equity and full participation. Furthermore this study fills the gap in the field of psychobiography which rarely reflects the cultural lives and experiences of the Global South.

Volume

91

Issue

1

First Page

14

Last Page

29

DOI

Psychobiographies of Social Change Agents

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