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Brunn Morais

Theorizing Decolonization of Knowledge. A Vernacular Approach to Re-shape Roma Families Relations within Educational Environment

In addressing Roma communities and the production of pedagogical practices developed in Portugal, I intend to conceptualize the relation of Roma children and families within the educational system. Through this conceptualization, I propose sets of methodological practices called here as Decolonization of Knowledge which respect Roma needs, perspectives and narratives, seeking to circumvent possible stigmas associated with Roma realities in school spaces. Thus, will be articulated concepts and theoretical axes that express recognition of multiple epistemic authorities in the development of an alternative educational praxis within creative and experimental methodologies.

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Research interests

  • Cultural Studies
  • Multimodal Anthropology
  • Roma Studies and Art

Vita

  • 2022 – 2022
    Young Romani Artists – Stiftung Kai Dikhas (Berlin).
  • 2020 – 2022
    Master Degree – NOVA (Portugal) – Anthropology contemporary Themes.
  • 2014 – 2018
    Bachelor degree – IUPERJ (Rio de Janeiro) –  International Relations.
  • 2008 – 2014
    Brazilian Navy – port captain of Rio de Janeiro (CPRJ).
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limits

“Resistance is a democratic right, sometimes a duty. With literature we can find models for this right and think about its limits.”

Gisela Febel
ideal of a contradiction-free world

“Science has long been animated by the ideal of a contradiction-free world in which logical orders could merge with society, politics, culture and language. In the GRC Contradiction Studies we are working on ways of describing the multiplicity and complexity, the danger and beauty of our worlds that clearly go beyond concepts of freedom from contradiction.”

Michi Knecht
idea of democratic critique

“If you think that acts of contradicting someone always need to point to better solutions, you haven’t really understood the idea of democratic critique.”

Martin Nonhoff
Afterlife of colonialism

“Contradiction comes in many different forms. None is so debilitating than when the coloniser transitions, textually not politically, to decoloniality without taking the responsibility for the afterlife of colonialism, which they continue to benefit from. Self-examination and self-interrogation of the relations of coloniality, a necessity, seem nearly impossible for the coloniser who continues to act as beneficiary, masked in the new-found language of White fragility, devoid of an ethical responsibility of the very system of White domination they claim to be against.” (Black Consciousness and the Politics of the Flesh)

Rozena Maart
Bhabha on enlightenment and coloniality

“Homi Bhabha says about the contradiction between the ideals of the enlightenment, claims to democracy and solidarity and simultaneous colonization and ongoing coloniality: ‘That ideological tension, visible in the history of the West as a despotic power, at the very moment of the birth of democracy and modernity, has not been adequately written in a contradictory and contrapuntal discourse of tradition.’”

Kerstin Knopf