title: The possibilities of performing social-psychological and ethnic mediations in Community Psychology in a Deep America perspective.
abstract: In this article, we problematize the approximation between Community Psychology and the idea of Deep America, considering it capable of contributing through mediations and translations in the construction of knowledge and the recreation of social, ethnic, and human life as local diversity. We want to clarify the matter from Liberation and Southern epistemologies' point of views, and to present experiences that confirm this Community Psychology method. We talk about coloniality, connecting it to the Community Psychology method and emphasizing the importance of the social-psychological/ethnic mediation, of view interpretation, and the aspects that constitute mediation: dialogic, experiential, and participant. Finally, we briefly report some facilitation and research experiences performed by us in Ceará, mainly in the capital, Fortaleza, and in Sobral County.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology , Federal University of Ceará (UFC) , Fortaleza , Ceará , Brazil.
authors.forename: Cezar Wagner de Lima
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Góis
authors.affiliation: b Department of Nursing , Federal University of Ceará (UFC) , Fortaleza , Ceará , Brazil.
authors.forename: Luciane Alves
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: de Oliveira
authors.affiliation: c Department of Psychology , University Biocêntrica , Fortaleza , Ceará , Brazil.
authors.forename: Sara Cavalcante
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Góis
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology , Federal University of Ceará (UFC) , Fortaleza , Ceará , Brazil.
authors.forename: Alexsandra Maria Sousa
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Silva
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D001938:Brazil; D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000379:methods*; D003256:Community Participation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008297:Male; D009656:North America; D011203:Poverty; D011593:Psychology, Social / Q000379:methods*; D014505:Urban Population; D014754:Violence; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Community Psychology; Deep America; mediations; subject of the community