Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: BARBARA RENATA CAVALCANTE FERRO DE MELO

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : BARBARA RENATA CAVALCANTE FERRO DE MELO
DATE: 07/04/2026
TIME: 15:00
LOCAL: Fundação Joaquim Nabuco - Campus Anísio Teixeira (Apipucos) - Sala Gilberto Osório
TITLE:

Word that sustains the earth: reading of the world and political formation in the Letters of the Xukuru do Ororubá Assemblies

KEY WORDS:

Education outside school. Worldview. Political formation. Xukuru do Ororubá people. Coloniality.

PAGES: 72
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Educação
SUBÁREA: Tópicos Específicos de Educação
SUMMARY:

This dissertation investigates the worldview constructed in the Letters of the Assemblies of the Xukuru do Ororubá people — a documentary series comprising twenty-four editions spanning the period from 2002 to 2025 — and examines how this worldview operates as political formation, constituting the discursive conditions for the production of collective subjectivity and for the orientation of territorial resistance practices. The research problem stems from the observation that the Letters systematically and recurrently construct an interpretive framework of reality around four central themes — development, nature, rights, and justice — a framework that discursively configures positions of collective subjecthood, normative orientations for action, and memory regimes that render resistance historically sustainable. The study is qualitative and documentary in nature, conducted through Orlandi's discourse analysis perspective, articulated with Freire's theory of worldview, Walsh's decolonial pedagogies, and the contributions of Brandão, Jara, and bell hooks on extra-scholastic political formation. The analytical operators mobilized — worldview, political formation, collective subject, territory, and coloniality — are grounded in Freire, Quijano, Mignolo, Maldonado-Torres, Acosta, and Krenak. Organized in three consecutive analytical movements, the study demonstrates that the Letters produce a worldview that is progressively elaborated throughout the series, articulating the refusal of developmentalism, an ontology of Sacred Nature irreducible to market rationality, the strategic and critical use of juridical instruments, and a conception of justice that transcends criminal reparation to encompass the political recognition of plurinationality. The study's original contribution to the field of Education lies in the analytical displacement that treats the Assemblies and their Letters as practices of political formation — education outside school — demonstrating that the Xukuru territorial struggle is inseparable from a struggle for the legitimacy of a worldview.

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