The Latin American Network of Training in Community Psychology has consistently reflected on the work of Community Psychology, its methods, practices, research, and the knowledge it generates. The Symposium continues this critical reflection focusing on the action-reflection-action process and its potential for decoloniality/decolonization. We problematize our thinking guided by the following questions: How do we generate knowledge with the communities while moving towards decolonization? How do we ensure that our work moves us towards decoloniality/decolonization? What characterizes decolonial/decolonizing community work in the contexts in which we work? Presenters are activists/academicians from 5 Latin American countries who will present diverse dimensions of decolonial thinking and action.

Katherine Herazo, from the Universidad Autónoma of México, will present a critical reflection on the tension between the concepts of community and communality; how and who builds community knowledge from a geopolitical perspective of knowledge. Thus, from the perspective of the knowledge produced by aboriginal people, and from an ontic and epistemic sense, we should speak of communality rather than community.

Blanca Ortiz-Torres, from the Universidad de Puerto Rico, will analyse and present the complexities and contradictions that emerge in community work in the context of a colony, as is the case in Puerto Rico, and how the knowledge exchanged in this work contributes not only to the decolonization of the discipline, but also to decolonizing academic training in university contexts and eventually contributing to the decolonization of our country.

James Moura Jr, from the Universidad de la Integración Internacional of the Lusofonia Afro-brasileña (Brasil), will analyse the production of decolonial resistance in communities living in poverty. It is conceived that the university is a colonial space that must be deconstructed. Alliances with local peripheries can point to invisibilities in the production of emerging knowledge in Community Psychology.

Gino Grondona, from the Universidad Politécnica Salesiana of Ecuador, will reflect on the modes of production and articulation of ancestral knowledge in the Ecuadorian highlands, while engaging in co-work in research towards decolonization driven by the ongoing collaboration between university and indigenous peoples. He will also problematize the concepts of community, organization, and indigenous autonomy.

Jorgelina Di Iorio, from the Universidad de Buenos Aires - Argentina, will problematize the relationship power- knowledge in research-intervention processes with vulnerable populations, particularly with people in street situation in urban contexts, and the way they impact the dynamic autonomy-heteronomy, as the guiding principle of Social Community Psychology. Faced with the persistence of hegemonic practices that govern and violated bodies (moral treatment) and reproduce subaltern positions, decolonial practices emerge with the intention of (re) constructing interaction territories that promote subjective and collective transformations, which may result in broader rights and recognition of desire.