Banca de DEFESA: SARAH FONTENELLE SANTOS

POPULAR AND INSURGENT COMMUNICATION IN COMMUNITY SPACES-TIMES: the movement and temporal experience in “northern lagoons for whom?”

Insurgent popular communication; anticoloniality; Affected by the Lagoas do Norte Program; City and production of meaning.

This thesis is the result of a long journey entangled in the struggle of communities that face the developmental and exclusionary model of the city incorporated by the Lagoas do Norte Program (LNP). A so-called urbanistic program that has been dispossessing hundreds of families along the Parnaíba and Poty rivers, around the lakes in the northern part of the capital of Piauí, Teresina. Amidst the tactics and strategies carried out in defense of the territory, we propose to take a look at the communicative ways of the local population, which in turn present us with a vast knowledge, invite us to co-create other possible communications from the subaltern sectors, which keep ancestral sciences and technologies. The objective was to analyze the insurgent and popular communication with the knowledge and practices of those affected by the Lagoas do Norte Program in defense of the right to the city. To this end, we propose to map Esperanças' communications with those affected by the Lagoas do Norte Program from the communicative processes underlying the self-organization practices in defense of the right to the city, with a territorial focus on Av. Boa Esperança; discuss the history/memory of the community and describe the foundations of community wisdom – having as a driving force the philosophies of Well living and Ubuntu – of popular and insurgent communication processes; identify aspects of communication that enunciate hopes for the threatened community. To achieve our objectives, the transmethodological approach (EFENDY, 2016) served as a contribution, building a walking method inspired by Latin American steps, as it is willing to decolonize cartesian science, putting in place the model of convertibility (FLEURI, 2019 ) and the Horizontal Production of Knowledge (HPK) (BERKIN, 2019), Social Cartography (ACSERALD, 2010) dialoguing with Sentimental cartography (ROLNIK, 1989). For the production of data, also weaving dialogues with orality and life stories to map the communicative processes of hope. In this path we walk with authors such as Bispo dos Santos (2015); Quijano (2013); Villanueva (2017; 2018); Krenak (2019); Ramose (1999); Mignolo (2017); Berkin (2019); Martin-Barbero (2002); Sodré (2019; 2006; 2002). In our conclusions, we reveal a communication that rises from the epistemes and ancestral anthologies kept by the community that invite us to an integral and active communication, as it is designed as a condition for the elaboration of the collective word that claims the right to the city and housing. This communication denotes senses of Well Living and Ubuntu, as references that allow thinking about other sociabilities. It is with these referents that we find the quadruple communicative power that is presented through mobilization, information, popular education and organization, which we call the circularity of communicative confluences. We also conclude that this thesis strengthens the community, communication, the research and academia, as it allows theoretically to weave in the science of the common (SODRÉ, 2015): which is to communicate, feel and listen and be always attentive to all the noise in the movements of life that pulsates. What is common is spoken and lived life– of collective enunciation, where there is always the echo of countless voices that demand space to say the collective word.