Geografias em perspectivas negras: experiências político-acadêmicas de uma professora pesquisadora negra

Abstract

This research seeks to investigate the political-pedagogical trajectory of a female geographer working in Basic Education and Higher Education and, for this, I make methodological use of narrative construction, as well as its analysis, considering my corporeality as a Black woman and researcher. This is anchored in the pertinence of autobiography of Black women - including their subjectivities - in scenarios in which still exploring their self as an object of research. Therefore, this is an investigation that is not hegemonic, and it involves the understanding of the “blackened geographical scientific writings” as a method interconnected in the macro and individual dimensions; they are writings based on document, language, expressions and symbolic marks that express spatial productions of Black sociocultural groups, according to the theoretical-methodological investment of the researcher Geny F. Ferreira Guimarães. The beginning of this narrative focuses on pedagogical practices and experiences of dialogues in the field of ethnic-racial relations, which I suspect is a form of antiracist know-how both in school and in higher education. Moreover, because these are forms of knowledge systematized and socialized by the Black Brazilian Movement - which has been discussed for at least a decade by the researcher Nilma Lino Gomes - I seek to identify those learnings developed collectively during this PhD, from the creation of the Working Group Geography In Black Perspectives (GT GEPENE), located in the Belo Horizonte Local Section of the Association of Brazilian Geographers (AGB). Despite changes in the scope of the research, I maintain the link to the studies initiated with decoloniality. In addition, I present results derived from the strategies of claiming and complaining of academic racism from political-corporal knowledge, forms of knowledge from Black-epistemic disputes, intersectional knowledge of articulation, knowledge of anger in movement, individual and collective knowledge of spatialization, and ancestral forms of knowledge of mutual recognition, to then understand what geographies are from-within Black perspectives, considering their affiliation to the Rede de Geógrafos/as Negros/as [Network of Black Geographers] in Brazil.