Profane cartography: the absurd in a school geography
Profane Cartography; School Geography; curriculum
This dissertation is a performative-fabulation with and about a Profane Cartography in School Geography. Product of thoughts and wishes of mapping with students from a basic school in the Historic Center of Salvador, BA. We opted for a weak ontology, in the terrain of a post-structural approach, in which the mappers are dimmed in the continuum between map and mapping, which allowed them to compose operations of the uncontrollable, of what cannot be banished, in the tension of going through the Crossroads School Geography pointing out the space and the curriculum as open dimensions, which are reconstructed in the flow of knowledge and practices of the affections of/in the bodies. What can a Profane Cartography in the context of a School Geography do? The errant lines of this dissertation are written from three stones found at the Crossroads School Geography: a becoming stone, the stone of Sisyphus and the stone of Exu. It proposes articulations of these experiences with the translation, hybridization and detachments engendered by the aesthetics of the absurd - the absurdism - of Albert Camus, present in his book The Myth of Sisyphus and lucubrations of the propositions of open space in Massey, of the contributions of Jacques on the urban wandering, hodology in Besse and intersections of Deleuze's concepts.