May 13, 2013

Post-Colonialisms and Global Citizenship

Boaventura de Sousa Santos e António Sousa Ribeiro

The investigation has a central question: can the celebration be a space of social emancipation? Searching answers, the thesis analyzes the celebrations of black communities, through a comparative study that involves three Brazilian communities: Mata Cavalo, in Mato Grosso (Center-west Region), Conceição das Crioulas, in Pernambuco (Northeast Region) and Colônia do Paiol, in Minas Gerais (Southeast Region). The theoretical approach uses three metaphors that characterize the emergent subjectivities in the paradigm transition (Santos, 2002) - the border, the baroque and the South - to analyze the celebrations in the black communities' context. For this, the festive events will be investigated from that prism, to see available and possible counter-hegemonic ways, in the field of the practices, as of the epistemologies.