Love as Politics, Anticolonial Spirituality and its Affective Cartographies
Name: ROGER GOMES GHIL
Publication date: 25/08/2023
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| GABRIELA SANTOS ALVES | Advisor |
Summary: Based on the feature film Atlantique (Mati Diop; Belgium, France and
Senegal; 2019), analyzed from the perspective of the Oxunism philosophical current (AKOTIRENE, 2019),
we will investigate how perishable spaces of freedom are created (BRASILEIRO, 2022) in
necropolitical and epistemicidal colonial context (MBEMBE, 2018) through a policy of
interspecific intimacy that develops the presence of an “opposing gaze” (HOOKS, 2019),
access to memory (FERREIRA DA SILVA, 2019) and ancestry (remembrance), and
a feminine anti-colonial performance that demands, aestheticizes, generates and conceives new
diasporic and ecological (cartographic and affective) territories (GRIJALVA, 2020). We point
that thinking about the territory from the black body is understanding that this body - due to kidnappings
and diasporas – assumes the role of shelter of ancestry which, when accessed by the processes
of intimacy (SOMÉ, 2007) with these anti-colonial spiritualities points to the forging of a
new history. We also propose the primary role of black women and practices
loving gestures as healing gestures (HOOKS, 2020), in the memory maintenance movement
within migratory processes. From a free and
dispossessed (HARVEY, 2014), everyday life becomes a theoretical foundation, which allows
the rapprochement with the director of the work (FREITAS, 2021) and the mirrored incorporation of a
affective cartography that overflows us in cinema.
