RE-SIGNIFYING COLONIAL HABITATION: VISUAL AND WRITTEN NARRATIVES OF THE RESIDENTS OF THE QUILOMBOLA COMMUNITY OF ILHOTINHA, SC

NARRATIVA VISUAL E ESCRITA DE MORADORAS DA COMUNIDADE QUILOMBOLA ILHOTINHA, SC

Abstract

This article aims to analyze how photographic and textual representations produced by residents of a quilombola community act as discursive practices that challenge hegemonic narratives about the landscape and quilombola territories while constructing a space for knowledge production. Through these representations, the study seeks to understand how the community redefines its territory and identity, reaffirming itself as a producer of knowledge and resisting historical erasure. The study proposes a new interpretation of the landscape, reflecting the experiences and memories lived by the residents. The research adopts photoethnography (Achutti, 1997) and escrevivência (Evaristo, 2020) as methodological approaches, considering images and texts as records of the community’s memories, experiences, and knowledge. The focus is on the images and their captions, which serve as discursive practices that question dominant narratives about the city and quilombola territories, highlighting a process of cultural resistance and problematizing the dynamics of colonial habitation (Ferdinand, 2022). According to Agier (2015), this process exemplifies city-making, in which residents transform urban space into a territory of struggle, memory, and belonging.