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URBANITIES OF THE RIVERSIDE: VILA ELESBÃO AND DECOLONIALITY AS AN EPISTEMOLOGICAL HORIZON TO THINK ABOUT THE RIVERINE AMAZON IN AMAPÁ

riverside urbanity, Amazon, decoloniality, traditional territories, Vila Elesbão

Based on the decolonial theory, this dissertation proposes to think how the devices of domination and social hierarchization that comes from the modernity/coloniality relationship, since the invasion of the Americas, relegated to certain territories and bodies a peripheral place within the conceptions of modern ways of life. That is, from the Decolonial Turn, it is possible to understand how the riverside territories, on the banks of the rivers, are seen from a perspective of stigmatization and primitiveness, also understanding the fundamental importance that the idea of race has in the relationship of superiority and degradation of cultures, especially in the Amazon region, which is still seen as a land to be explored. From a theoretical approach, linked to field research, interviews and imagetical analysis, it was possible to know and understand the territory to be studied: Vila Elesbão. Located in Santana city, in Amapá, the Elesbão neighborhood translates the reflections taken by the theoretical contribution, demonstrating the experience of a territory permeated by water, that it stills little discussed by the field of Architecture and Urbanism. Thus, it was possible to understand a riverside stilt building that, in its minutiae and singularities, demonstrates the pertinence of thinking about the urbanities that arises from the banks of rivers in the Amazon.