A gente somos muitas andanças: uma etnografia multissituada do desterro e da diáspora em mirada feminista descolonial

Abstract

The research consists of a multisited ethnographic analysis in a Kilombo and a Teko Haw. The multisited feminist ethnographic approach walks alongside two occupations that claim ancestry: the Kilombo Urbano Ocupação Canto de Conexão (Pelotas, RS) and the Teko Haw Maraka'nà (Rio de Janeiro, RJ). Through a brief analysis of the legislation governing land rights, I seek to highlight the State's refusal to guarantee the rights of Indigenous and quilombola peoples, especially those living in urban contexts. In the field work with the Kilombo Urbano Ocupação Canto de Conexão, I emphasize the role of the Elder Women in producing a quilombola territory through the practice of aqueerlombamento. In the field work with Teko Haw Maraka’nà, I highlight the importance of territorial and identity reclamation, paying special attention to how women sustain the continuity of the territory through the practice of thinking and living alongside the land. Each group, with its specificity and trajectory, creates routes to resist the colonial-capitalist drive to subjugate life. Both occupations cultivate life on the asphalt and sprout seeds in spirits that multiply stories of struggle and the presentification of ancestry, expressing in the present the relationship of connection with the land, people, struggle, and existence.