CALL FOR PAPPERS

" Communities, well-living and counter-hegemonic narratives "

Dayane Nascimento Sobreira (Doutoranda PPGNEIM/UFBA)

                       Flávia Lorena Brito (Doutoranda PPGE/UFMT)

                       Flávia Pereira Machado (Doutoranda PPGH/UFG)

Climate change, territorial reconfigurations, the destruction of the environment, and the ways of life of native peoples and traditional communities, have become the tonic of modern and globalized societies. In the name of Western rationality and a project of modern, colonial, and capitalist/neoliberal power, communities, in different territorialities, spatialities and temporalities, were being devastated not only with regard to the occupied territories but fundamentally in terms of their knowledge and practices. The “abuse of reason”, in the words of Ailton Krenak (2019), brought a break in relation to these traditional experiences and narratives, which leads us to echo the same questions of the aforementioned author: “why do these narratives not excite us? Why are they being forgotten and erased in favor of a globalizing, superficial narrative that wants to tell the same story to us?” (KRENAK, 2019, p. 19). And more: what colonial pacts do such omissions and silencing perpetuate? In this sense, from a trans, multi and interdisciplinary dialogue lined up by the writings of history, the objective is to highlight different community forms and dissident protagonists around their practices and principles of complementarity, autonomy, reciprocity - in contrast to the sewn narratives of power from abyssal lines, which continue to structure modern thought, in the words of Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2009). Networks of social movements, masters of traditional knowledge, sertanejas, faith healers, indigenous women, landless, "daisies", to name a few, have been working in the construction of counter-hegemonic epistemologies, in the interrelationship between said knowledge , or not, as scientific, and in the profusion of well-living as a counterpoint to the civilizing and environmental crisis unleashed by capitalism and its ideological contribution based on individualism and rationalism. From community feminism, this social spectrum is understood as a principle that values ​​life above all to the detriment of the values ​​and modern ethics of consumption and profit (PAREDES, 2020). In this way, we understand that these assemblages of subjects and subjects, as well as different social groups and communities, are structured in the relationship between oppression and resistance, evidencing as "the return inward, in a policy of resistance, towards liberation” (LUGONES, 2014, p. 94). Faced with these complex and paradoxical scenarios, we propose this dossier, hoping to gather articles that reflect on re-existing knowledge and practices, of subalternized subjects, of community forms of well-being and struggles against annihilation processes cultural, environmental and political of social groups and diverse communities that erupt from the margins. We seek, therefore, dialogues with the wisdom of experiences, bearing in mind the dimension of the pluriverse as a counterpoint to the epistemicide that modernity has also promoted through the Universities, where various ways of knowing and perceiving the world were silenced, giving way to a false unity , a “universalization” of knowledge and practices. Looking at the world from the notion of the pluriverse contrasts with the assumption of a one world, that there is only one reality to which multiple cultures and subjective representations correspond. “For the proposal of the pluriverse, there are many realities or 'reales', even though it is not intended to “correct” the belief in a “real” ground under the argument of being a more true explanation of 'the reality' (ESCOBAR, 2014, p. 145). Thus, we believe, according to Walsh (2014), that these reflections cause fissures, cracks, in colonizing/colonized knowledge, promoting the safeguarding of decolonial knowledge and practices and other re-existences. Transgressive and powerful dimensions point to a new cosmology of knowledge in its insurgent, re-existing, and pluriverse epistemes.

Submissions for this Dossier open until February 28, 2022. We also remember that Revista Anômalas receives, in a continuous flow, free articles and reviews.

Forecast for publication: June 2022.

Submission of articles to: revistaanomalas@gmail.com.