Banca de DEFESA: Ana Laura Silva Vilela

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : Ana Laura Silva Vilela
DATE: 20/12/2024
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: https://www.youtube.com/@analaurasvilela
TITLE:

Women of Axé: Epistemic Justice in the experiences of the ialodês

KEY WORDS:

Women of Axé; Afro-Brazilian Religions; Epistemic Justice; Ialodês; Life Experiences; Ancestry.

PAGES: 450
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Direito
SUMMARY:

The lives of Ebomi Vanda Machado and Mãe Jaciara Ribeiro, two black women of axé from Salvador-Bahia, daughters of the orixá Oxum, guide the paths of this thesis. For decades, Ebomi Vanda Machado has developed educational proposals based on terreiros, as a locus of African thought recreated in the Diaspora, and mobilizes herself in networks of encounter and affection of the terreiro communities. The ialorixá Mãe Jaciara Ribeiro built her political and religious trajectory from the national struggle for reparation of religious violence against her biological mother, Mãe Gilda, and keeps her mother's legacy alive. Thus, I accept the commandment of black feminism that the lives of black women offer projects of justice. But not just any justice. The question that guides the text is: "in what way do the experiences of two black women of axé compose projects of epistemic justice?". Presenting this problem to legal research demands epistemological confrontations from its positioning. The first challenge of the thesis is to deal with ignorance regarding women of axé and to make themes and scenarios in which the lives of women of Axé take place understandable in a legal research, through contexts, flows and political-theoretical plots about Afro-Brazilian religions and multiple sources gathered in fieldwork carried out with Mãe Jaciara and Ebomi Vanda, especially between 2018 and early 2020. Other stories and theories of women of axé impose themselves in this conversation; I review anthropological studies on Afro-Brazilian religions and investigate the category "women of axé" and related debates on gender, race, politics, nation, etc. To compose the concept of epistemic justice, I locate theoretical propositions in the legal field that confer epistemic dignity on lives, especially the lives of black women, not only as inhabitants of scenes of subjection, but as productive spaces of creation and learning for Law. The political category ialodê is central to the thesis. It was triggered by Brazilian black feminism from the Yoruba Afro-diasporic repertoire and required by the fieldwork; they are two women of Oxum. It corresponds to a position attributed to women in the defense of their political power. I seek to explore some images, narratives and contradictions in the writings about ialodê that help to understand its current claim by the women of terreiro. Starting from Oxum, and from lives driven by the episteme of Oxum, this is not just any justice project, but above all aesthetic, epistemic and committed to memory and ancestry. For this reason, epistemic justice is dedicated to the community project that is also composed of ancestors, those who came before. The lives of the women of terreiro reposition different knowledges in their bodies, clothing and practices. And if these women demand and dispute State lexicons, they are not exhausted by them, elaborating on "something else". It is with this "something else", unsubmissive and unpronounceable, that this thesis deals. Being from Oxum, the thesis is obliged to use beauty as a method (SHARPE, 2024) and, as in the Yoruba system, art runs through the entire text.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - LIDYANE MARIA FERREIRA DE SOUZA - UFSB
Externa à Instituição - GABRIELA BARRETO DE SÁ - UNEB
Presidente - 1905321 - GUILHERME SCOTTI RODRIGUES
Interna - 4878654 - LIVIA GIMENES DIAS DA FONSECA
Externo ao Programa - 2290568 - WANDERSON FLOR DO NASCIMENTO - null