Performances docentes decoloniais: combates à colonização de si, do conhecimento e da ciência

Abstract

This article is the result of research which investigated how professors at the UFMG are able to produce knowledge and actions that decolonize knowledge, science and society. Through ten (auto)biographical narratives with professors of this institution, it was possible to access strategies, practices and actions that displace the university from its colonial, European, patriarchal and white-centered history. In this way, even though it is a great challenge to shake the foundations of an institution the size of the Brazilian public university, this has already proved to be possible through, mainly, transdisciplinary and politically engaged extensionist and affirmative practices. This has, as a consequence, an endless reconstruction of the professor's subjectivities and of the institution itself towards a decolonial horizon.