Diasporic Thought and Black Geographies in Brazil
Topics: Black Geographies
, South America
, Ethnicity and Race
Keywords: Brazil, black geographers, diaspora
Session Type: Virtual Paper Abstract
Day: Saturday
Session Start / End Time: 2/26/2022 11:20 AM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) - 2/26/2022 12:40 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada))
Room: Virtual 80
Authors:
Diogo Marçal Cirqueira, Fluminense Federal University
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Abstract
The purpose of this presentation is to reflect on the theoretical production of black geographers in Brazil. The academic work of these geographers is a diasporic expression, because while they are dealing with contextual realities in Brazil, they take as reference and counterpoint other black realities and dialogue with other black authors and traditions of the African diaspora. The G/geographies of Africa, Afro-Latin America and the North America, for example, are a privileged field of reference and dialogue. Assuming this presupposition, I will analyze and debate the diasporic dimension of the production of these geographers from four angles: the impact of Affirmative Action policies on Brazilian universities and on the process of production and reproduction of knowledge in the academic Geography; the complexifying of the discussion on class and social inequality based on race in Brazil; the emergence of the “Quilombo” as a spatial reality and a theoretical-political reference of “r-existência” (resistance and existence); and the "black genocide" as a structural, spatial and "diasporic" process. The Black Geographies produced in Brazil are a product of a national conjuncture (sometimes regional conjuncture), however it is in dialogue and connected to other Black G/geographies of the African diaspora.
Diasporic Thought and Black Geographies in Brazil
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