Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: RENATO LUIZ GONCALVES DE OLIVEIRA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : RENATO LUIZ GONCALVES DE OLIVEIRA
DATE: 13/12/2024
TIME: 14:30
LOCAL: Plataforma Online Google Meet - sala virtual: meet.google.com/nqw-mdwn-mru
TITLE:

Sing the song, man: in the drums of the becoming of manhood.

KEY WORDS:

masculinity; gender; ethnocartography; subjectivity

PAGES: 97
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Psicologia
SUMMARY:

This research investigates the dynamics of Black masculinity within the context of a Ketu Candomble terreiro in the Potiguar region, employing ethnocartography as its method. The study analyzes how Black men who are devotees in this House experience, express, modify, and perform their masculinities, either reconfiguring or reinforcing social and cultural norms. It begins with a core question and its unfolding inquiries: what does Candomble reveal about being a man in the world? And what does it mean to be a Black man in that terreiro? This investigation aims to ethnocartograph the colonial-capitalistic elements influencing the production of Black male subjectivities, as well as the practices of resistance to these forces within a contextualized territory. To achieve this, the study highlights how modes of economic, emotional, social, and cultural exploitation continue to manifest in the bodies of Black men; how the subjectivities of these bodies are shaped by negative stereotypes surrounding their values, cultural habits, and religiosity; and how resistance practices emerge through the preservation of Afro-diasporic rites in Brazil, configuring themselves as forms of community organization. The methodology was conceived as a "clandestine assemblage," an imagetic resource illustrating the plastic vitality of the research. The image of a bicycle, which only functions in motion, symbolizes the need for a method that is continuously being created—one that comes into being by bringing together the researcher, the research, its references, and the field to clandestinely handle ideas, tools, pieces, people, and build a porous body attuned to the investigative space it produces and its escape routes. This approach emphasizes the importance of an analysis that captures the complexity of Black men’s experiences in Candomble and the continuous interactions between the researcher and the field of study. It centers on resistance practices, epistemic disobedience, and ways of escaping institutional frameworks while interrogating them. Rather than producing concrete truths, the study explores the multiplicity and ambiguity of the practices and identities of its subjects. This perspective enables an analysis that values the lived experiences and daily practices of Black men in Candomble by gathering fragments of information and experiences that construct more nuanced analyses of Black masculinities, both in the field and from the researcher’s perspective. The researcher’s presence is viewed as an active process that generates reactions and discomforts—not merely collecting data but participating in the formation of the data and the field of study. This involvement reveals the instability of research objectives and fosters a collective construction of its
outcomes. The research explores the practices and territories of resistance among Black men in Candomble, emphasizing an approach that recognizes the significance of lived experience and daily practice in shaping identity and masculinity.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1674041 - ANA KARENINA DE MELO ARRAES AMORIM
Externo à Instituição - LEOMIR CARDOSO HILÁRIO - UFS
Externo à Instituição - ANTÔNIO VLADIMIR FÉLIX DA SILVA - UFDPar