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Quilombo Manifests: from this land, on this land, for this land

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Author(s):
Diego de Matos Gondim
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Doctoral Thesis
Press: Rio Claro. 2021-11-08.
Institution: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Instituto de Geociências e Ciências Exatas. Rio Claro
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Advisor: Roger Miarka; Guillaume Sibertin Blanc
Abstract

The research work that has been carried out since 2015 aims to problematize the production of Quilombo in Brazil in its ethical, aesthetic, political and economic dimensions, with a spacial perspective in mind, called in the thesis as topogenetics. To do so, it starts with an anthropological experiment conducted in the Quilombo Community of Mandira, located in the countryside of the state of São Paulo. In the development of the research, a study is presented that aims to highlight the relationship between the quilombo and the land as an affirmation of ethics, aesthetics, politics, and economy of circularity and difference. The work of the Brazilian historian Beatriz Nascimento is central to the epistemological articulation of the entire thesis, focusing on the problematization of the author's characterizations of the quilombo as an African institution and as a political practice. With this in mind, the quilombo is considered as a space open to the Other, constituting a politics of relation that involves the self-transfiguration of the self by the Other, rather than an assimilation or denial of difference. On the other hand, there is a rationality that effects power relations that configure the constitution of a subjectivity by authoritarianism and dependence. Denominated colonial rationality, it is not only evidenced as a way of economic establishment of the colony, but, above all, as a model of governmentality, that is, the production of a form of government of minds, bodies, and contiguously of the land. In the face of this colonial governmentality, the quilombo is then situated as a social organization that aims to dissipate the policies of frontierization undertaken by this rationality. The anthropological experience in the quilombola community of Mandira is taken up in this critical exercise vis-à-vis the colonial topologies preserved in our contemporaneity. In the same way, it is used within the critical dimension of power relations that cross our inter-social relations, marking the emergency of problematizing Brazilian spatial dynamics as well as the rationality that fecundates them. In this way, the quilombo is assumed as a concept that has as its principle invention and difference as the effectuation of an emancipating practice from contemporary colonialism. Its cosmological relationship with the land is evidenced as constituting a composite culture that has the land as its existential dimension, in opposition to atavistic cultures that have the land as a conquest to be exploited. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 17/23227-1 - Ontogenesis and topogenesis: an ethnomathematical study of the production of worlds in a quilombola community in the Vale do Ribeira
Grantee:Diego de Matos Gondim
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate