[pt] Essa dissertação tem como sujeitos coletivos de pesquisa os quilombolas da comunidade de Baía Formosa, localizada em Armação dos Búzios, Rio de Janeiro. O enfoque se dá na análise das formas de r-existência territorial dessa comunidade, conceito que abarca elementos ontológicos, epistemológicos, coletivos, ancestrais, sociais e econômicos, em suma, formas próprias de existência desse grupo, como estratégia de resistência, organização e articulação política em prol da efetivação dos direitos territoriais constitucionalmente garantidos às comunidades de remanescentes dos quilombos. Após a expulsão de parte das famílias da região por fazendeiros na década de 1970, a comunidade tem pautado, sobretudo, o retorno dessas famílias às suas terras, acionando um repertório vasto de estratégias para tanto. Tendo como pressuposto teórico-epistemológico o entendimento de que a colonialidade em suas múltiplas dimensões é a lógica (des)organizadora do sistemamundo capitalista moderno/colonial e que o Brasil inscreve-se nessa teia de relações heterárquicas de dominação enquanto país subalternizado, reproduzindo internamente essa lógica como herança de seu passado colonial através do racismo estrutural e estruturante da sociedade brasileira, entende-se que a comunidade de remanescentes do quilombo de Baía Formosa, ao empregar suas táticas de rexistência territorial, está empreendendo uma frente de luta contra a colonialidade e suas múltiplas expressões, noutros termos, é uma forma decolonial de vivência, resistência e existência. Os percursos metodológicos adotados consistiram em observações participantes de campo, espaço onde foi possível tecer diálogo tanto com as lideranças quanto demais quilombolas, além de possibilitar a vivência das práticas coletivas e formas de organização do grupo. Nesse ínterim, foram realizadas duas entrevistas semi-estruturadas aos moldes da história oral, uma com a presidente da Associação de Remanescentes do Quilombo de Baía Formosa, e outra com uma das anciãs da comunidade. / [en] This dissertation has as collective research subjects the quilombolas from the community of Baía Formosa, located in Armação dos Búzios, Rio de Janeiro. The focus is on the analysis of the forms of territorial r-existence of this community, a concept that encompasses ontological, epistemological, collective, ancestral, social and economic elements, in short, the specific forms of existence of this group, as a strategy of resistance, organization and political articulation aiming the realization of territorial rights constitutionally guaranteed to the communities of remnants of the quilombos. After the expulsion of part of the families from the region by farmers in the 1970s, the community has mainly guided the return of these families to their lands, triggering a vast repertoire of strategies to do so. Having as a theoreticalepistemological assumption the understanding that coloniality in its multiple dimensions is the (dis)organizing logic of the modern/colonial capitalist worldsystem and that Brazil is part of this web of heterarchical relations of domination as a subordinate country, reproducing internally this logic as a legacy of its colonial past through the structural and structural racism of Brazilian society, it is understood that the community of remnants of the Baía Formosa quilombo, by employing its territorial r-existence tactics, is undertaking a front to fight against coloniality and its multiple expressions, in other words, is a decolonial form of experience, resistance and existence. The methodological paths adopted consisted of participant observations in the field, a space where it was possible to engage in dialogue with both the leaders and other quilombolas, in addition to enabling the experience of collective practices and forms of group organization. In the meantime, two semi-structured interviews were carried out along the lines of oral history, one with the president of the Baía Formosa Quilombo Remnants Association, and the other with one of the community elders.

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This thesis examines elements of the conceptualization of literature within literary studies and literary production in a UK context, considering the concept of exclusionary practices based on the negligence of intersectional categories of identity such as race, gender, class, sexuality, etc., in the practice of understanding and interpreting literature. The methodologies I employ are close reading of various narratives, such as literary texts, as well as a narrative analysis aimed at a holistic understanding of my material. The second part of this thesis envisions a decolonised approach to literature in which we situate our positionalities when we read and interpret literary works. I demonstrate this through the analysis of several poems, informed by decolonial concepts and sensibilities. The results show that the maintenance of these exclusionary practices advances a grand-narrative of Western civilisation, ignoring the multiple sites people inhabit both from within, and outside, the West and that these practices are effectively harmful. I argue that through the project of decolonising literature there is a possibility of disrupting the perpetual macro-narrative of Western domination and universality.

In October 2019, a wave of massive demonstrations took place in Santiago de Chile and this movement was stamped in several newspaper covers worldwide. People shouting against the Chilean neoliberal system, holding posters with anti-imperialist sayings, and organizing artistic interventions on the streets went viral in social media. The message was clear – for several consecutive months, people in Chile were actively questioning the political, economic, and societal systems as well as the power struggles faced in the country. Relying on the 2019-2020 Chilean Uprising as a case study, this research investigates the consistency of the Santiago de Chile demonstrations by connecting its social claims to the field of urban studies for the understanding of social and spatial constructions. The thesis relies on postcolonial, decolonial, and critical urban theories, a critical perspective of the neoliberal system, the Lefebvrian Right to the City concept, and Manuel Castells' grassroots movements definition, as well as semi structured interviews and newspapers articles as empirical data for the enhancement of the debate.

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My study is a theoretical intervention of the South African contemporary visual art of Mary Sibande. It focuses on the figure of Sophie representing the maid in three series; namely, Sophie-Elsie, Sophie-Merica, and Sophie-Velucia. The study applies Frantz Fanon’s thought to the understanding of the figure of Sophie while emphasising the themes of naming, the human subject, and presence-absence. The theoretical framework of this thesis is a decolonial epistemic theory, which is used as a lens to understand Fanon’s political thoughts. I argue that the themes of naming, human subject, and presenceabsence are inherent in Fanon’s thought. These thematic areas give a better understanding of the existential questions of the figure of Sophie in the antiblack Manichean world. It is important to unpack the figure of Sophie as a Manichean figure who represents the crossing of two different worlds – the white world and the black world, Africa and Europe. The study highlights the importance and relevance of reviving Fanon’s thought concerning decolonial contemporary African art and establishing other tools of interpretation necessary to understand decolonial aestheSis. The thrust of this thesis is to deploy decolonial epistemic theory as a theoretical framework to the Fanonian understanding of the figure of the three Sophies that embody the modern/colonial predicament of the figure of the maid and blackness. / Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology / Ph. D (Art)

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