Entre tarrafas e peneiras: fazeres e saberes do Assentamento Volta do Rio em Jaú do Tocantins

Abstract

The results of the research I conducted during my undergraduate studies (Lima Neto, 2021-2022) showed that academia still sustains itself through a colonial-slaveholding mentality, guided by patriarchal Euro-Jewish-Christian principles and values, which underpin the modern Enlightenment project of the university. At the Universidade Federal de Goiás, the subalternized body-politic by this university project resists and survives. Their linguistic and epistemological survivals in the epistemic structure and subalternizing pedagogical projects are constructed based on their lived experiences and constitute, according to the results of my research, forms of intercultural translation, that is, the translation of their other world into the university world, of their language and knowledge, and vice versa. Thus, the proposal of this research project is built around issues related to intercultural translation practices among social groups marked by colonial difference and the geo-onto-epistemic-linguistic wound in a transcultural crossing between worlds in tension of translation. The research aims to probe and capture the forms of epistemological survival through the sociolinguistic practices of subaltern students in humanities courses at UFG. The specific objectives are: 1) investigate how the systemic barrier of weakening/erasure of Cerrado traditional knowledges—present from the guidelines and frameworks of basic education to the university—perpetuates a moderncolonial, enslaving system that subjugates the embodied voices of rural populations, including settlers and peasants; 2) analyze how coloniality constructs the depletion of the rural-urban continuum through the denial and neglect of public policies regarding housing, food, education, and basic sanitation in settled communities. This process leads to the abandonment of the traditional epistemologies of Cerrado knowledge holders in the epistemological transition between rural areas and the university and/or the labor market; 3) propose transfluent intercultural translation as an alternative research methodology within the university, grounded in Cerrado traditional knowledges as a means of strengthening and resisting the epistemological subordination imposed by academic scientism and its so-called universal research methodologies. According to the results of previous research (Lima Neto, 2021; 2022), it is premised that the modes of academic survival are constructed through intercultural translation, perceived as fundamental bases of the epistemology of body-politics in a situation of marginalization, impoverishment, and subaltern in the university. To achieve the objectives, the proposed methodology, of a qualitative nature, with the use of different instruments, relies on questionnaires, open interviews, conversation circles, and actions of traditional knowledge. In the discussion of the results, a dialogue will be established with the epistemologies of sieves, by Lima Neto (2022), supported by the theory of pedagogy of resumption and epistemic bilingualism by Pimentel da Silva (2017; 2019), Menezes de Souza and Duboc (2021), LucianoBaniwa (2017; 2022), Tubino (2004) and Walsh (2014)