Cartografia decolonial catrumana

Abstract

The South´s epistemologies, from their potentiality, take themselves as a reference to consider the knowledge/power of distinct social groups, once historically dissolved, invisible or unseen in the epistemological context and of capitalism/colonialism. Therefore, the decoloniality movement, the basis of this thesis, conceives the South´s epistemologies, in a horizontal and not vertical way, thus shedding light on the most varied forms of knowledge around the world. As well as the other sciences, Geography is tensioned, in its academic bases, its reformulation towards a Decoloniality Geography. In this same wake, Cartography is presented and its possibility of application in decolonial analysis. This thesis was dedicated to understanding the territorial construction processes through collective social maps of three traditional communities in the Northern region of Minas Gerais. As a methodological procedure, it was used the joining of cartographic techniques aligned with the principles of the New Social Cartography and its own cartographies with a view to its "translation" to classic cartographic base. Followed by a comparative territory analysis, as a unit of analysis and of its dimensions (or strands of analysis): Political, symbolic/cultural, economic and spatial, pointing out its historical contexts of territorial appropriation, its temporalities and its similarities and dissimilarities. The analyses made it possible to verify the identities, territorial differentiation and political articulations, as well as similarities in the way of conceiving and portraying their territories in a cartographic way. In this thesis, these forms of cosmography are called Catrumana Cartography. The New Social Cartography is pointed out as distancing itself from "representing" or "speaking in the name of", starting from a process of collective construction, in which, get close, with the same degree of importance, the researcher and the social subjects of research approach, as an effective instrument for understanding and or (re)reading the social structures of traditional communities and peoples that act as subjects of action. Appropriate techniques for understanding and social mapping of the related communities.