Labirintos da Lembrança: corpo e memória como recursos investigativos

Abstract

This thesis is a dream materialized in a collective, together with companions, meetings at the fair, on the train, in schools, at the waterfall, human and non-human people, references that nourished this soil, displaced and guided the notions of Time, Territory and Memory, three words/ideas/concepts/guidelines, conjurations for the transformation of everyday life, desires for creation and destruction. Times. Territories. Memoirs. Plural ways of thinking and living complex experiences that cross the lives of all of us, survivors of colonial violence. This research wanders through collective bodies. Awake and attentive to the understanding of territories as part of ourselves, permeated by the relationship between life and death, a complex smell of rot that enters the nostrils, experiences of transformation, but also of pain due to abrupt and violent separations. Being whole is also accepting being torn apart by these experiences, this is how we walk through colonial terrain, collecting pieces, fragments of our stories, of other possibilities of affection, creation and desires. Welcoming inventions, experiments and changes of path as research strategies, mixing theories that complement each other and assist in deeper dives, we wish to create an imago-textual cartography that is sensitive, fluid and porous, open to what is around it. Cartography that guides us from the margins and borders as places of power, affection, resistance and creation. Using guidance tools, mostly borrowed by companions, black and indigenous people, teachers, students, life partners, in dialogue with feminist and decolonial theories that give new meaning to the production of epistemologies as broad fields of invention and diversity, and not as truths that imprison us. Authors who speak what was prevented from being shared for a long time; proposals, readings of the world, diverse problematizations fundamental to the fertilization of the historically dry understanding regarding the realities of the many groups and institutions through which we circulate, and which invite the invention of other worlds.