From the University to the Quilombo: Dissident Epistemological Reflections and Counter-Stories of the Von Bock QuilomboThis article seeks to produce and articulate reflections emerging from the authors' practice in quilombola territories, regarding the epistemic controversies currently intersecting their academic careers. In this sense, it first suggests ethical reflections on their work in quilombola territories from an academic context, confronting the onto-epistemological and practical limits that emerge and highlighting the strategic dimensions of such action, as a way of reflecting and seeking to reference oneself, not strictly from theoretical perspectives, but primarily from the praxis that emerges in Black territories. Secondly, we address what we have been calling a "context of overlapping violence" operating against the Von Bock quilombola territory in São Gabriel, Rio Grande do Sul, based on Saidiya Hartman's notion of archival recomposition and counterhistories.
Keywords:
Quilombos; Afro-pessimism; dissident epistemologies; anti-Blackness; Saidiya Hartman.