Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: GEANNE FERREIRA LEITE

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : GEANNE FERREIRA LEITE
DATE: 14/10/2025
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Link Google Meet
TITLE:

Geography and Ontology of Knowledge: Between Amazonian Ancestrality and Science

KEY WORDS:

Ancestral Knowledge; Epistemic Place; Science; Geontological Experience.

PAGES: 150
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Geografia
SUBÁREA: Geografia Humana
SUMMARY:

This thesis invites an understanding of the epistemological and ontological configurations of ancestral knowledge in dialogue with science, focusing on the meanings produced within the Federal Universities of the Amazon in order to grasp the patterns and criteria adopted in knowledge production, as well as the effects of these choices in the context of interculturality in education. Methodologically, the research engages both with Indigenous epistemologies and phenomenology, and it is conducted through a qualitative, descriptive, and analytical approach. To explain the phenomenology of geographic space, conceptions from Buttimer (1990), Dardel (2015), Marandola Jr. (2014), Silva (2020), alongside Indigenous intellectuals such as Smith (2015), Kopenawa (2015), Munduruku (2009), Potiguara (2004), Kambeba (2018), Barreto (2022), and Baniwa (2020), among others, are mobilized to address the construction of Being in its inseparable relation with the environment, as part of an epistemic crossing—a fluid movement of exchange and re-signification between worlds, knowledge, and existences. In articulating methodological procedures, the research included literature reviews, fieldwork through conversation circles, a thesis diary, and photographic and audiovisual records. The epistemic debate proves essential, as it is evident that the struggle of Indigenous movements challenges the educational models historically imposed by integrationist policies, instead proposing the strengthening of ancestrality in spaces that were once silenced. From this perspective, the Geontological Experience is not merely a proposal for epistemological categorization emerging from the Amazon, but rather a way of perceiving, feeling, and constructing knowledge from the relationship between being, ancestrality, and the epistemic place. What is proposed here is a relational educational approach in which being is in continuous interaction and co-constitution with the territory, within a living dynamic that integrates interculturality and academic thought.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 396900 - JOSUE DA COSTA SILVA
Interno - ***.978.969-** - NILSON CESAR FRAGA - UFPR
Externa ao Programa - 694209 - MARA GENECY CENTENO NOGUEIRA - UNIRExterno à Instituição - ÉDER RODRIGUES DOS SANTOS - UFRR
Externa à Instituição - SUZANNA DOURADO DA SILVA