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This dissertation aims to describe the specific schooling process developed in the quilombo of Conceição das Crioulas, in Salgueiro / PE. This process was a result of the socio-historical reconstruction movement of the quilombo’s history, which started in the 1980s. This process triggered several conflicts, and priority was given to the regaining of their territory and to the search for educational practices with decolonizing ideals. Based on the individual and collective memories of Conceição das Crioulas people, we have registered the historical accounts of the community’s resistance to the domination and oppression systems imposed to them since the arrival of the creole founders until today. The methodological trajectory was based on interviews, informal conversations and the analysis of a video-documentary, specifically recorded for this research. This path also allowed us to evaluate how we have perceived and done our school education over a period of twenty-two years, whose milestone is the inauguration, in 1995, of Professor José Mendes school, a local public school where grades 6th to 9th are taught. First, this paper addresses important elements for the beginning of this search. Next, it describes practices and specific actions of the education of Conceição das Crioulas. After that, it draws a comparative analysis about this and other pedagogical experiences, highlighting connections and significant distances between them. Finally, at the end of the last chapter, it conceptualizes this experience, which was named Crioula Pedagogy in the community.

Transference, Tradition, Technology explores Canadian Aboriginal new media and references the work of artists within a political, cultural and aesthetic milieu. The book constructs a Native art history relating to these disciplines, one that is grounded in the philosophical and cosmological foundations of Aboriginal concepts of community and identity within the rigour of contemporary arts discourse. Approachable in nature but scholarly in content, this book is the first of its kind. A text book for students and teachers of Canadian Aboriginal history and visual and media art, and a source for writers, scholars and historians, Transference, Tradition, Technology is co-produced with the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton; and Indigenous Media Arts Group, Vancouver.

The Modernity/Coloniality/Decoloniality (MCD) research program is a collective project associated with Latin America. In addition to a critique of Eurocentric “colonial modernity,” the project highlights non-Eurocentric forms of knowing and being in the world. It also aims to foster alternative or decolonial thinking emerging from the lived colonial experiences of those situated “outside” Europe. This last is what MCD proponents claim differentiates it from postcolonial critiques of modernity with their emphasis on deconstruction. This review provides a brief but critical overview of the MCD project's parameters and claims. It makes a cautionary call to those tempted by “alternatives to modernity,” who might want to uncritically adopt alternative decolonial thinking. It concludes with a call for a closer and critical engagement with Latin American decolonial ideas and those they contest.

This paper analyzes the growth of gender studies in Latin America, despite facing resistance in the scientific field and from the advance of conservative policies on the continent. It also addresses the challenges that feminist research faces in colonized spaces. To develop our argument, we draw on the scholarship of feminist researchers in Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina, such as Veleda da Silva and Lan (2007), Silva and Vieira (2014), Silva, César and Pinto (2015), Colombara (2016), Lan (2016), Veleda da Silva (2016), Ibarra-García and Escamilla-Herrera (2016), Zaragocin-Carvajal, Moreano-Venegas, and Álvarez-Velasco (2018), and Silva and Ornat (2019). This paper also examines the difficulties that Latin American feminist geographies face in establishing their own foundations in a globalized world where the geopolitics of global knowledge of geography is increasingly structured by the epistemological centralization of the Anglophone northern hemisphere.

Discussion of Coloniality at Large: Latin America and the Postcolonial Debate (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2008) by Mabel Moraña, Enrique Dussel, and Carlos A. Jauregui (eds.).

This article is a portal into the rapidly expanding historiography of modern Brazil. It highlights the major nodes of discussion and debate among historians of Brazil over the last two decades, and describes how these debates have been shaped by broader shifts in the historical profession. Two themes frame this survey of the new historiographical trends for postcolonial Brazil. One is the impact of the linguistic or cultural turn on that historiography. Slower to have an impact in the Brazilian historiography were the writings of the Subaltern Studies scholars and postcolonial theorists.

This article attempts to review and synthesise the main debates in critical geography across both the Latin American and Anglo-Saxon traditions. By reviewing the main theoretical approaches including from political ecology, feminist geography, post-colonial and de-colonial approaches and the geography of motilities and migration, the aim of this article is to delineate a pan-Latin American approach to critical geography. We also consider why some approaches and topics have received greater or lesser attention in Latin American scholarship. Finally, we emphasize the importance of establishing a new transnational dialogue based on regionally situated critical research that questions and proposes new pathways in the production of knowledge from and about the region. We suggest this approach be nested in critical theory and committed to local political and territorial struggles.

Este libro reúne ensayos de doce teóricos latinoamericanos, quienes hacen una reflexión acerca de la diversidad epistémica en el mundo contemporáneo. Plantean que la decolonialidad en el siglo XXI tendrá que dirigirse a la heterarquía de las múltiples relaciones raciales, étnicas, sexuales, económicas y de género que quedaron intactas durante el siglo XX.

Este trabajo trata sobre artes visuales modernas y contemporáneas en América latina. Como ejes trasversales del texto se plantea: la decolonialidad y la antropofagia crítica. Parte desde la problematización de las estéticas decoloniales y la revisión histórica del arte latinoamericano del siglo XX, primero modernista luego posmoderno, desde una aproximación decolonial. Su intención es analizar si la opción decolonial es viable para artes visuales. Pretende analizar la propuesta de la decolonialidad, así como sus límites y sus principales riesgos. Además de establecer puentes con la ética posmoderna y la ética latinoamericana. En el capítulo dos trata como eje principal la antropofagia, tanto como movimiento artístico moderno, como propuesta de producción y aproximación crítica, cultural y artística. Mira a la antropofagia como proceso y como metodología posmoderna de resistencia. Bajo estos parámetros analiza la obra de tres artistas modernistas latinoamericanos: Joaquín Torres García, Tarsila do Amaral y Wilfredo Lam. Luego, y a partir de esta aproximación, en el capítulo tres se plantea el análisis crítico a una práctica artística: la muestra ARTNIVORA (2011) del colectivo femenino de arte La emancipada en Quito. Analiza en esta muestra, como el colectivo emplea la antropofagia crítica para buscar un argumento de emancipación de género. En esta muestra de arte actual, las estrategias de la apropiación y la cita contemporáneas son leídas como una práctica antropofágica. La intención es presentar un diferente punto de vista para la producción y la apreciación de las artes visuales y plásticas contemporáneas latinoamericanas, tanto obras de arte, como el trabajo creativo y los procesos de sus autores y autoras. El texto plantea la importancia del sentido de pertenencia con la localidad en la expresión de arte visual, si bien emplea un lenguaje cuyos códigos pueden ser leídos internacionalmente, su anclaje es su localidad y problemáticas insertas en un contexto local.

The proliferation of critical and creative post-porn movements, which vindicate the representation of dissident sexualities under a new feminist, queer and transgender perspective, provide tools of analysis to rethink past literary and audiovisual pornographic productions, as well as to reformulate current ones. In this line of intermediate research, between cinema and literature, an approach to the work of Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño is proposed that will allow us to discern whether he can be considered a post-porn author related to the Golden Age of pornographic cinema in the 1970s and 1980s. Two of his stories and a novel will be studied: “Joanna Silvestri”, from which a gender reading will be made that problematizes the role of women within an eminently heteronormative industry, obsessed with representing male ejaculation; “Prefiguración de Lalo Cura”, analyzed under a postcolonial perspective of appropriation of subaltern bodies conceived as geographical territories, and Una novelita lumpen, in the field of porn pedagogy. The resulting findings make it possible to establish that Roberto Bolaño can indeed be considered a post-porn author by translating the narrative proposals of the Golden Age porn films into his own literary project, with a feminist and post-colonial critical intention.

La producción visual de América Latina del siglo XX condensa una variable de emergentes artísticos diversosno solo por la complejidad histórica que caracteriza al continente sino por la pluralidad de comunidades nativas que conformaron su territorio geográfico. Así como la crítica cultural ha abonado fuertemente el terreno de las artes también han surgido otras vías de estudio enlazadas con dimensiones sociales, económicas y políticas. Cabe mencionar los aportes al ámbito de las producciones visualesde una perspectiva analítica que en el escenario latinoamericano se inscribe en el llamado ‘giro decolonial’. América Latina posee una tradición franqueada por luchas contra el colonialismo y el eurocentrismo. En la actualidad, la esfera artística contemporánea manifiesta sus posicionamientos colectivos frente a una sociedad globalizada. En este aspecto, las contribuciones de la inflexión decolonial permiten pensar otros sentidos inherentes a las formulaciones estéticas surgidas en estas regiones. Se analizarán las obras de Alfredo Jaar, Tania Bruguera y Milagros de la Torre.

Se trata de revisar las concepciones canónicas de la modernidad artística latinoamericana desde una perspectiva crítica y situada desde los estudios decoloniales y el hacer en las cátedras Historia de las Artes Visuales III e Historia de la Música III de la Facultad de Bellas Artes de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata. En ambas materias se trabajan contenidossobre las artes locales, nacionales y latinoamericanas/sudamericanas, en comparación conlos movimientos europeos de la modernidad y la contemporaneidad. Este proyecto revisa algunas líneas historiográficas recientes sobre la historia y la teoría de las artes locales ylatinoamericanas. Se revisarán, también, algunos casos de producciones artísticas.

The visualization of the ways of doing what is sensible in a globalized society is one more form of discipline of sensitivity and its poetics. The border between a colonized sensibility and an insurgent sensibility becomes blurred as the international distribution of the sensible assigns specific ways capable of domesticating the sensibilities that overwhelm it. Those sensitivities not that cannot be captured neither as merchandise, nor as an archive, nor as heritage. The overflow and excess of these sensitivities that have not been caught in the networks of an international art market jeopardize, by their very existence, the categories that aesthetics, as a modern-colonial discipline has produced to conceptualize and codify the sensitivities (isolationism) neutralized their capacities to witness historically subjugated life experiences. In this sense, decolonial stasis retrace the traced path, and one of the ways of retracing is to disarticulate or at least resignify words such as "art", "artist", "work", "production", "aesthetic", or "Poetic", among others.

Stemming from Grosfoguel’s decolonial discourse, and particularly his enquiry on how to steer away from the alternative between Eurocentric universalism and third world fundamentalism in the production of knowledge, this article aims to respond to this query in relation to the field of the art produced by Latin American women artists in the past four decades. It does so by investigating the decolonial approach advanced by third world feminism (particularly scholar Chandra Talpade Mohanty) and by rescuing it from—what I reckon to be—a methodological impasse. It proposes to resolve such an issue by reclaiming transnational feminism as a way out from what I see as a fundamentalist and essentialist tactic. Following from a theoretically and methodological introduction, this essay analyzes the practice of Cuban-born artist Marta María Pérez Bravo, specifically looking at the photographic series Para Concebir (1985–1986); it proposes a decolonial reading of her work, which merges third world feminism’s nation-based approach with a transnational outlook, hence giving justice to the migration of goods, ideas, and people that Ella Shohat sees as deeply characterizing the contemporary cultural background. Finally, this article claims that Pérez Bravo’s oeuvre offers the visual articulation of a decolonial strategy, concurrently combining global with local concerns.

Bringing Latin American popular art out of the margins and into the center of serious scholarship, this book rethinks the cultural canon and recovers previously undervalued cultural forms as art. Juan Ramos uses "decolonial aesthetics," a theory that frees the idea of art from Eurocentric forms of expression and philosophies of the beautiful, to examine the long decade of the 1960s in Latin America--a time of cultural production that has not been studied extensively from a decolonial perspective. Ramos looks at examples of "antipoetry," unconventional verse that challenges canonical poets and often addresses urgent social concerns. He analyzes the militant popular songs of nueva canción by musicians such as Mercedes Sosa and Violeta Parra. He discusses films that use visually shocking images and melodramatic effects to tell the stories of Latin American nations. He asserts that these different art forms should not be studied in isolation but rather brought together as a network of contributions to decolonial art. These art forms, he argues, appeal to an aesthetic that involves all the senses. Instead of being outdated byproducts of their historical moments, they continue to influence Latin American cultural production today.

As bell hooks points out in “Aesthetic Inheritances: History Worked by Hand,” writing an inclusive art history is no easy task. Until very recently, Aboriginal women have been written out of Canadian art history, or rather art history has been written around us. How do we write ourselves in? It falls far beyond simple insertion; the erasures are far too deep. Insertion presumes a simple forgetfulness, an oversight, a neglecting of the obvious. Insertion assumes a presence. It implies a shared mode of history, a common belonging to a collective archive, and an agreed-upon understanding of what it means to be an artist. Beyond the important considerations of race, gender, culture, and social class, our distinct legal status in Canada must be acknowledged. This was particularly true for women artists working between 1880 and 1970. For much of the time period under consideration, First Nations communities lived under a profoundly restrictive regime of colonial power. Relationships between First Nations people and the Canadian state have been defined by the Indian Act, a piece of legislation enacted in 1876 and surviving, through many amendments and revisions, until the present time.

Résumé livre : The Cultural Work of Photography in Canada is an in-depth study on the use of photographic imagery in Canada from the late nineteenth century to the present. This volume of fourteen essays provides a thought-provoking discussion of the role photography has played in representing Canadian identities. In essays that draw on a diversity of photographic forms, from the snapshot and advertising image to works of photographic art, contributors present a variety of critical approaches to photography studies, examining themes ranging from photography's part in the formation of the geographic imaginary to Aboriginal self-identity and notions of citizenship. The volume explores the work of photographs as tools of self and collective expression while rejecting any claim to a definitive, singular t... Source: Publisher

James Brady was a mid twentieth-century Indigenous political organiser, trapper, prospector, writer, and intellectual. He was also a prolific photographer. This article considers the significance and aesthetics of Brady’s photographic archive through the lens of Indigenous visual sovereignty. Brady was Métis - one of Canada’s three recognised Indigenous peoples along with First Nations and Inuit. The Métis engaged in two conflicts with the Canadian state and negotiated the entry of a province into confederation. For a significant period of history, they lived outside Canadian infrastructures, whether the system of First Nations’ reserves created in the post-treaty era or Euro-Canadian settlements. Particularly vulnerable to land loss and displacement, the Métis were in desperate condition when Brady first began travelling with his camera. Brady’s photographs document the political rebirth of Métis people and the resilience and persistence of Métis communities in northern Alberta and Saskatchewan. They bear photographic witness to the lived experience of sovereignty rooted to place and continue to resonate with his subjects and their descendants