Portugal persists, Brazilian women resist: coloniality and gender wide out in the digital world

• Grant number: 23/09918-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: December 01, 2024
• End date: March 31, 2027
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Eliseu Savério Sposito
• Grantee: Tatiane Regina da Silva
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Presidente Prudente. Presidente Prudente , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 25/09664-6 - FROM THE COLONIAL BODY TO RESISTANCE IN CYBERSPACE: BRAZILIAN MIGRANTS IN PORTUGAL, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

For a long time, the variables gender, race, social class and sexuality were not considered in spatial analyzes as elements of social differentiation in Geography. In general, geographic space, as a product of interrelations and composed of multiplicity, was understood exclusively through socioeconomic, political and cultural relations, without considering psychosocial issues, for example. Therefore, understanding that space is not neutral, much less universal and the need to consider the category of gender in geographic studies, this research project intends to address, in general terms, gender-oriented immigration from a decolonial perspective, of Brazilian women who are in Portugal (former metropolis of Brazil). In this way, I will take as my initial focus of access the movement that was born on digital social media, during the COVID-19 pandemic period, the "Brazilians are not silent!". To carry out this project, the methodological procedures are based on qualitative research, anchored mainly on netnography, interviews and discourse analysis, as well as proposing to weave a path of non-hierarchical exchange between the researcher's knowledge and the subjects participating in the search. Finally, the thesis project is based on the hypothesis that, from the perspective of gender coloniality, one perceives behavior on the part of the former metropolis (Portugal) in affirming the roles of colonizers and "colonized women", as well as a certain discomfort on the part of Portuguese society in living and occupying the same spaces as Brazilian immigrants. (AU)