How to produce knowledge in encounters between women? Reflections on theoretical-methodological experiences with and from the city's margins

Abstract

This paper arises from concerns collectively elaborated in the study group Margear (UFBA) and aims to highlight and reflect on ways of thinking, researching and narrating cities from an intersectional perspective. Taking advantage of fragments produced from our researches, we highlight some theoretical-methodological experiments practiced, as well as the narration strategies through languages other than writing. In these research processes, the main reflections that moved us were: the production of knowledge from and with the margins, the valorization of memory, the urban trajectories of black women, and the imbrications of ways of life in everyday doing-city. We believe that inter and transdisciplinary exchanges have provided us with fruitful considerations, but we emphasize that the field of urban studies still lacks the construction of a theoretical framework that brings it closer to the epistemic expansions necessary for its updating.

Keywords:
Salvador, Bahia; Doing-city; Margins; Black women; Involved research; Methodological experiments