Banca de DEFESA: EMANUELE DE FREITAS BAZILIO

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : EMANUELE DE FREITAS BAZILIO
DATE: 26/03/2026
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Remoto
TITLE:

AFROFABULATORY CONSTELLATIONS: BLACK-PERIPHERAL COUNTERVISUALITY AS SELF-INSCRIPT, RE-SIGNIFICATION, AND RE-EXISTENCE

KEY WORDS:

Black photography. Race. Periphery. Afro-Fable Constellations. Self-registration.

PAGES: 221
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Comunicação
SUBÁREA: Comunicação Visual
SUMMARY:

This thesis investigates Black-peripheral countervisuality as a decolonial act of self-inscription, re-existence, and re-signification, based on an understanding of the practices, tensions, and aesthetics of Black decolonialism. Thus, it aims to understand how photography has contributed to the reimagining of Black existence in the contemporary world. The main objective is to develop an investigation into Black-peripheral photography, focusing on the Brazilian Northeast, through the formation of Afrofabulatory Constellations. Specifically, this thesis contributes to the theoretical understanding of image representation and hegemonic and decolonial regimes of visibility; to understanding the relationship between Blackness, periphery, and photography as a proposition of a Black decolonial aesthetic; This study aims to define the Black gaze and its political and visual strategies, the use of the camera as a decolonial weapon, and the ideals of quilombos (maroon settlements) as inspiration for contemporary photographic practice; to analyze visual strategies of Black-peripheral countervisuality; and to form constellations that demonstrate an artivist, Afrocentric, and political visual production by Black photographers from the peripheries. Following an original methodological approach, the study begins with bibliographical readings to gain a deep understanding of Black epistemologies. Subsequently, it develops the Afrofabulatory Constellations methodology, which uses the African symbols of Adinkra as an interpretative key to a given set of images. It begins with the observation of a heterogeneous group of photographs and develops into the operationalization of an Afrocentric method of image analysis, which operates methodologically through six stages: exploratory, identificatory, empirical, intercrossing, spatial, and fabulatory. The corpus of analysis for this research – responsible for composing the nine Afro-fabulatory constellations presented – comprises the work and photographic production of 10 photographers from Northeast Brazil who participate in the Olhos Negros (Black Eyes) research project (UFRN) and 150 images collected from the Instagram profiles of these photographers. Through the observation and analysis of decolonial traces, which are formal, thematic, and affective recurrences, the aim is to understand Black-peripheral counter-visuality through the formation and interpretation of these constellations. Given this, this thesis is organized around theoretical axes that address Black thought (hooks, 2019, 2022, 2023), decoloniality, Black representation, countervisuality (Mirzoeff, 2016), image capture devices (Sealy, 2016; Campt, 2017; Azoulay, 2021), Afro-fabulations and cosmoperception (Hartman, 2020; Nyong’o, 2018; Oyěwùmí, 1997); periphery, Blackness, and visuality. As a result, in addition to the nine constellations, it offers an important theoretical and methodological contribution to the study of Black-peripheral photography, revealing the aesthetic strategies of self-inscription, re-existence, and resignification of contemporary regimes of visibility.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - ***.246.464-** - DANIEL RODRIGO MEIRINHO DE SOUZA - UFRJ
Interna - 1640014 - MARIA ANGELA PAVAN
Externo ao Programa - 3061790 - RODRIGO ALMEIDA FERREIRA - UFRNExterno à Instituição - RICARDO MARNOTO DE OLIVEIRA CAMPOS
Externo à Instituição - FERNANDO DO NASCIMENTO GONÇALVES - UERJ