Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: WILLIAM SOARES FREITAS

a cultural cartography of the Engomadeira neighborhood

Cultural cartography; Engomadeira; black experiences

The present study aims to trace a cultural cartography detached from the technical/traditional elements of geography; To this end, it proposes to elaborate narratives about the Engomadeira neighborhood - located in the central region of the city of Salvador/BA. From the oral perspectives of residents of the neighborhood, I draw approximations between the stories told about the territory of Engomadeira, and a conceptual framework about the territory and housing. Secondly, I focus on black cultural manifestations in the neighborhood - capoeira, the Terreiro Viva Deus Filho parties, and the LGBTQIA+ Parade, with an emphasis on the expressions of these manifestations highlighted in the research dialogues. Regarding the last section of the work, I propose to expand the plots of cultural cartography through the breakdance performance presented by b-boys in/from the neighborhood. The sections were built around the questioning of the ways in which black cultural cartographies of Engomadeira tell and are told the/in the territory, using semi-structured interviews, cultural cartography, and performance as methodological tools; and as a theoretical basis, references from Milton Santos, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, Jörn Seemann, Leda Maria Martins, Muniz Sodré, bell hooks, Fred Moten, etc. stand out. From the narratives of the interlocutors, I understand that black experiences, in the highlighted cultural expressions, highlight radical ways of living the city. They all go through a spiraling ethics/aesthetics of black ways of living/doing the city, from forms of housing, which have the quilombola heritage as a backdrop in the geography of the territory, to religious and/or recreational manifestations.