1. DOCTORAL PROGRAMMES
  2. Doctoral Programmes
  3. Post-Colonialisms and Global Citizenship
  4. Theses defended
  5. PhD Thesis
  6. Abstract

Theses defended

Quilombo’s celebration: Post colonialism and the and the ways to social emancipation

Carla Ladeira Pimentel Águas

Public Defence date
May 13, 2013
Doctoral Programme
Post-Colonialisms and Global Citizenship
Supervision
Boaventura de Sousa Santos e António Sousa Ribeiro
Abstract
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.