As bordas vão falar, e numa boa: os saberes orgânicos urgentes dos povos tradicionais, a partir do encontro com uma quilombola

Abstract

This work evokes the organic wisdom of traditional and native Brazilian peoples to address the urgency of an epistemological and attitudinal revolution in our society. With an approach and investment in another methodology, it raises self-decolonization, decolonization and anti-racism as insurgent practices. It starts with the meeting with Emília Costa, a quilombola and pedagogue from Maranhão, to discuss the non/in-between places of subordinated bodies and the almost invisible of these people in spaces of knowledge; recalls the historical facts that shaped the genocide and epistemicide still in progress; celebrates and opens a clearing for other knowledge, delving into concepts of biointeraction and confluences (NÊGO BISPO, 2015), also reflecting on the borders and limits of the encounters between traditional and hegemonic knowledge. Finally, from the perspective of the research person, it presents the ways of living and knowing of Quilombo Santo Antônio do Costa, in the municipality of São Luís Gonzaga, in Maranhão: its practices of communion, struggle and feminisms, also discussing the operation between rights and desires in educational demand in quilombola territories. The quilombola Nêgo Bispo and the indigenous Ailton Krenak are fundamental co-authors for the construction of this research, as well as other Afro-diasporic thinkers.