WRITING-LIVING WITH LOCAL KNOWLEDGE: REFLEXIONS FROM A BLACK FEMALE-RESEARCHER-EDUCATOR DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

• Autor(a) principal: Alves, Aline Neves Rodrigues
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Geographia (Niterói. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uff.br/geographia/article/view/55626
• topic: conhecimentos locais; escrevivência; decolonialidade; geografias negras; conocimientos locales; escrivivencia; descolonialidad; geografías negras; local knowledge; writing-living; decoloniality; black geographies

The thoughts and propositions presented in this article are related to studies and practices I carried out in the academia as well as in basic education institutions within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, more specifically in the first semester of the year 2021. This investigation aims to bring readings, empirical and subjective practices based on local knowledge that were systematized by the Black Brazilian Movement, according to the educator Nilma Lino Gomes. The theoretical emphasis is based on decolonial thought and methodological technique is derived from the concept of “escrevivências” (writing-livings), from the female author Conceição Evaristo, who, as the anthropologist Arturo Escobar and the educator Paulo Freire, rejects the distinction between knowing and doing. Besides, my writing radically questions the binary and asymmetric relations between nature and culture, local and global, theory and practice. As a result, this article presents a critique of (developmentalist) globalizing thought, which makes invisible bodies and cosmoperceptions of groups that were oppressed by the (modern) capitalist world-system. The conclusion is that the dimension of a locus of enunciation through a “body-territory” can contribute to the production of “glocalities”, as I suspect happens through the mediation of a network of Black geographers, which was initially in my doctorate investigation. Networks that, as the Black feminist geographers, are not exclusive to Brazil, but find echoes in actions that pursue the fight for political, social and economic emancipation. A task that regards itself as decolonial in theory and practice.