Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: MARIA LIZIANE SOUZA SILVA

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STUDENT : MARIA LIZIANE SOUZA SILVA
DATE: 29/09/2025
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Remota
TITLE:

Indigenous Masters and Doctors

KEY WORDS:

Indigenous women; Postgraduate studies; Resistance; nNw epistemologies

PAGES: 148
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Geografia
SUBÁREA: Geografia Humana
SPECIALTY: Geografia Política
SUMMARY:

Over the last decade, the inclusion of Indigenous women in graduate programs at Brazilian Federal Universities has been noticeable, albeit tentatively. This process began in the early 2000s, following the implementation of racial quota policies adopted by universities in undergraduate programs and, more recently, in graduate programs. From this point on, there has been an increase in representation within and outside the communities of these Indigenous women, typifying a scramble to conquer new spaces and the blossoming of a range of new possibilities. However, their presence in graduate programs is still permeated by challenges, perspectives, and daily resistance that reshape both social life and research and the production of academic knowledge at universities. The purpose of this thesis was to analyze the number of Indigenous women who have been and/or are currently enrolled in graduate programs at Federal Universities in the North region over the last 10 years and to address some questions, such as: What was their means of access to the programs? What are the greatest difficulties/resistances faced in the daily lives of students? As a woman, have you observed changes within or outside indigenous communities? From a gender perspective, these women's identities appear to be in a state of flux, as Bauman and Bhabha (2005) believe. They are experiencing a volatility of ethnic identity, that is, a moment of "melting" of traditional Indigenous gender cultural patterns. In this sense, the question arises: are we facing a new reconfiguration of Indigenous gender roles? The central hypothesis of this research is that the entry of Amazonian Indigenous women into graduate programs in the federal education system (2013-2023) reconfigures the academic territory as a space of dispute and resistance, producing new epistemic and gender territorialities that strain the coloniality of knowledge and power, transforming both the role of these women in their communities and the academic logic itself. Four justifications are suggested for this hypothesis: scientific relevance; social relevance; theoretical innovation; and decolonial contribution. This research also brings to light what feminist geographies denounce, that we still have a Geography that is hegemonically masculine, white, Western, heterosexual and elitist (Silva, 2009a; Silva, Ornat and Chimin, 2013). However, Brazilian public universities have become strategic arenas for Indigenous peoples, quilombolas, Black women, women, rural dwellers, and other socially marginalized groups, becoming trenches where the established order can still be debated and questioned (Alves, 2019). As a result, this thesis reveals that Indigenous Amazonian women, upon earning master's and doctoral degrees, produce epistemological and political ruptures that reposition the university itself as a territory of difference and resistance, revealing a new perspective on science. Our method will be approached from a phenomenological perspective, important for geography because it considers the diverse experiences of subjects, anchored in their ways of feeling, perception, and knowledge (Gomes, 1996). It is in relying on these perceptions, in valuing the sensibilities of these Indigenous women, that we decide on the method. As for the techniques, we will adopt documentary analysis that favors the observation of the maturation or evolution process of individuals, groups, practices, among others (Cellard, 2008) and the oral source that has proven itself over the centuries to be a source of conservation and dissemination of knowledge for science in general, according to Goncalves and Lisboa (2007).

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Interno - ***.978.969-** - NILSON CESAR FRAGA - UFPR
Interna - 6396896 - MARIA DAS GRACAS SILVA NASCIMENTO SILVA
Interno - 1810294 - ADNILSON DE ALMEIDA SILVA
Externa à Instituição - MARIA DE JESUS MORAIS - UFAC
Externa à Instituição - FRANCILENE SALES DA CONCEIÇÃO - UEA