Neguinhas que armam a quizumba: debates sobre ações políticas e apropriações das tecnologias pelas herdeiras de Ananse da Amazônia Paraense

Abstract

It all started with Ananse. Then came Zélia, Lélia, Jane. And they continue. We arrived and joined them. We continue (almost) all here. Since Ananse, we have produced technologies and used them critically, for an unbreakable silver web cannot be just anything; it is undoubtedly a communicative phenomenon and unquestionably a technology. A technology of care, entanglement, and resistance. This is where this thesis starts. Through it, we navigate Amazonian waters discussing infrastructures, access, uses, policies, and affirmative actions that enable bringing to the forefront a black and Paraense Amazonian identity centered in the Lower Tapajós: the municipality of Santarém. The objective is to debate, understand, and analyze how the heirs of Ananse, that is, the black women with whom I write this thesis, have appropriated digital technologies. For this, I start from a transfeminist methodology of practice from the Transfeminist Network of Digital Care: the Infrastructures of Affection, through which I conducted discussion circles, debates, workshops, and semi-structured interviews with the co-authors of this work. Understanding technological appropriation as a communicational phenomenon of multiple layers (Sodré, 2014), it is emphasized that arriving at these places happens through categories that are dear to these women: 1) Territory, 2) Collectivity, 3) Language, 4) Surveillance and violence, and 5) Autonomy, leading the movements to assume responsibility for occupying and leading in exclusionary settings without any hesitation to create disturbances (Gonzalez, 1984).