Overview

In this seminar, I seek to reflect on the relationship between work memory and social representations from the memories of the elders of the quilombola community of Araras, in Teixeira de Freitas, Bahia, Brazil. Based on the studies of social memory, I emphasize the importance of memories in the interpretation of the ways of living, as well as the changes in the relations of production that occur in the community. The study identifies, among several factors, the dissatisfaction with what Maria José Carneiro has called pluriactivity - that is, the coexistence of other activities and sources of remuneration that peasants have to dedicate to guarantee agricultural production. In this research, I emphasize the search for strategies in the quilombola community that value practices and more endogenous productions.

Keywords: social memory; quilombo; representations; pluriactivity

Bio note

Bougleux Bomjardim is a PhD student in the Postgraduate Programme in State and Society of the Federal University of Southern Bahia. He holds a Masters in Humanities from the State University of Santa Cruz (UESC). Graduated in Vernacular Literature. His doctoral research focuses on the social memory of the old quilombolas of the rural community of Araras, in Teixeira de Freitas (Bahia, Brazil). Research on the teaching of Portuguese, in the research group Identity and Teaching Language, at UESC, and on aspects of the social representations of Afro-Brazilian culture. He is interested, also, by the adornian aesthetic theory, namely: studies of violence in Brazilian and LGBT Literature

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