How might grappling with quilombola inheritances help think place relations?
SHARED BY ADRIANNE BACELAR DE CASTRO
How might grappling with quilombola inheritances help think place relations?
As I enter the city of Olinda Nova, where the childcare of my research is located, I have been carefully thinking about how grappling with ongoing inheritances might help co-create more liveable futures (Hamm & Jobb, 2023) within this early learning community. In this geographic location, colonial structures shape many of the relations with place. Co-existing with these colonial structures that make indigenous and afro-brazilian cultures invisible (Santos de Miranda, 2022), there are oral stories and memories of resistance and ancestral ways of living represented by the presence of at least two quilombos within the municipality. How might we open the doors of the childcare by grappling with those inheritances? What does it mean to open up the doors of the childcare to the spaces, memories, materiality and flows that exist in this place? What happens to our place relations when we pay attention to the different co-existing cultures that throughout the history of early childhood education in Brazil were excluded to privilege euro-western knowledge?
Hamm, C., & Jobb, C. (2023). How does grappling with ongoing inheritances co-create liveable futures? .https://www.commonworlds.net/microblog-database/how-does-grappling-with-ongoing-inheritances-co-create-liveable-futures
Santos de Miranda, D. (2022). A parábola do progresso. In S. Pompeia (Ed.). Sao Paulo: SESC.
