Banca de DEFESA: MAYARA ALMEIDA DE PAULA

COUNTER-COLONIALIST SCRIPTS in Western-world spatialities of black women

escrevivências; counter-colonial narrative; cosmoperception; urban planning; memory; spatialities.

The thesis entitled “Counter-colonialist narratives in Western-world spatialities of black women”, aims, through writings (conceptualized in Portuguese as escrevivências) produced from stories lived and told by black women from the author’s family, to express spatialities, resistance strategies and science in the invention of technologies to deal with the environment in the face of the challenges experienced by black people in Brazilian society arising from a racist, classist and cis-hetero-patriarchal structure. In these stories, created from the investigation of family photographic records, memories, storytelling and fiction, perceptions of the world that go beyond the western modus operandi are evidenced and, therefore, bring to light elements such as ancestry and healing technologies in the midst of their construction. Then, counter-colonialist narratives about black experiences are built from the experiences of family members and ancestors, establishing a panorama through the family axis about similar experiences among black Brazilian families. Stories about displacements, rural exodus, relationship with nature and home, ancestral cosmoperceptions and means of healing in relation to the daily challenges experienced are evidenced. Spatialities are also identified in the narratives, evoked through memories that allow finding different relationships with the environment, established either by transit, by belonging, permanence, ancestry or other relationships with time. They are spatial impressions marked by icons that form arrangements of different spatial natures and represent one more tool for reading the writings that can be used as a basis for cartography and the idealization of urban guidelines.