TY - CHAP
T1 - A Pedagogy of Convivência Exploring the Potência of Individual and Collective Subjectivity in Brazilian Peripheries
AU - Fernandes, Fernando Lannes
AU - Silva, Jailson de Souza e
AU - Barbosa, Jorge
PY - 2024/10/1
Y1 - 2024/10/1
N2 - This chapter brings together a set of concepts that have been elaborated over more than two decades as part of a process of political-intellectual engagement with peripheral territories and people in Brazil. These reflections take place, mostly, from the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro, where several studies and actions took place since the creation of the NGOs Observatório de Favelas, in 2001, and, later, UNIPeriferias (also known as Institute Maria and João Aleixo), in 2017. Both organizations, in which the authors of this chapter have influential roles, propose alternative projects to address social justice and human dignity based on the perspective of favelas and other peripheral territories. Such a vision was underpinned by the recognition and valorization of social, aesthetic, cultural, and epistemological references elaborated from peripheries. This involved a strong emphasis on the creation of mechanisms to promote the intellectual production and influence of peripheral groups in public arenas and policymaking. In the making of this intellectual and political process, three core concepts emerged: peripheries, potência, and convivência. The chapter will articulate these concepts to provide our interpretation of subjectivities at the margins. We acknowledge the need to contextualize these concepts and provide some cultural translations for an international audience. We also acknowledge the relevance for such concepts to be resignified beyond the context in which they were produced, by promoting an international dialogue with scholars interested in the peripheries and the margins of urban sociocultural and political landscapes.
AB - This chapter brings together a set of concepts that have been elaborated over more than two decades as part of a process of political-intellectual engagement with peripheral territories and people in Brazil. These reflections take place, mostly, from the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro, where several studies and actions took place since the creation of the NGOs Observatório de Favelas, in 2001, and, later, UNIPeriferias (also known as Institute Maria and João Aleixo), in 2017. Both organizations, in which the authors of this chapter have influential roles, propose alternative projects to address social justice and human dignity based on the perspective of favelas and other peripheral territories. Such a vision was underpinned by the recognition and valorization of social, aesthetic, cultural, and epistemological references elaborated from peripheries. This involved a strong emphasis on the creation of mechanisms to promote the intellectual production and influence of peripheral groups in public arenas and policymaking. In the making of this intellectual and political process, three core concepts emerged: peripheries, potência, and convivência. The chapter will articulate these concepts to provide our interpretation of subjectivities at the margins. We acknowledge the need to contextualize these concepts and provide some cultural translations for an international audience. We also acknowledge the relevance for such concepts to be resignified beyond the context in which they were produced, by promoting an international dialogue with scholars interested in the peripheries and the margins of urban sociocultural and political landscapes.
KW - Urban peripheries
KW - Brazil
KW - Pedagogy of convivencia
KW - Peripheral epistemologies
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85206274677&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3167/9781805396956
DO - 10.3167/9781805396956
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9781805396956
SP - 210
EP - 234
BT - Subjectivity at Latin America's Urban Margins
A2 - Kopper, Moisés
A2 - Richmond, Matthew
PB - Berghahn Books
ER -