(De)colonialidade e antropização em uma comunidade quilombola na Amazônia Oriental sob o olhar da filosofia da libertação

Abstract

This work is interested in the discussion about (De)coloniality and Anthropization in a quilombola community in the Amazon region of Pará through studies of Enrique Dussel's Philosophy of Liberation, which through a process of changing perspective, presents us with an ethic focused on the oppressed people, in which the Other is highlighted as the path to the revolution that contemporary society needs, a path that needs to be traced urgently, emerging as a possible utopia, not only for America, but for the world as a whole, focusing on the influences that caused the emergence of a new perspective that was previously unnoticed by the author himself, that is, the differences and the distance that exists between the dominated and the dominator, masked by a Eurocentric vision. The interdisciplinary nature of the research can be understood through the fruitful debate between the main points of this work: Decoloniality, Philosophy of Liberation and Quilombola Communities, highlighted here in an immersive way. To this end, the research was carried out through a qualitative bibliographic survey in authors such as Assis (2021), Oliveira and Ramos (2020), Ramos (2012), Dussel (1977/1980/2012), Quijano (2005) among others, and aimed to understand which (de)colonial practices are produced in the São Pedro Quilombola Community and what implications they present in relation to colonial continuities and/or processes of transgressions that indicate marks of liberation from the Dusselian perspective. The field research was conducted through the analysis of oral narratives of five quilombola community members with influence in the community, aged between 18 and 75 years old, with notable knowledge, as they are local spokespeople, and who have always lived in that place. In this way, it was possible to denote that the São Pedro quilombola community has been promoting resistance through the practices experienced in this territory through the approximation to African and Afro-Brazilian ancestry and as a result of this resistance, it has revived its own encounter with the past that also acts in its liberation processes itself, thus being at the forefront of the struggles for recognition and liberation in the region of northeastern Pará, but which also present contradictions in relation to its self-recognition of belonging. Furthermore, through this process, we have accessed/produced unique knowledge and practices that seem to be supported by the decolonial vision, that is, committed to liberation from the shackles of colonization processes.