The Globalization Required: De(s)colonial Narratives of Art/Education in Brazil-World

Abstract

We can identify in the history of brazilian art/education, two foundational narratives, those of Paulo Freire and Ana Mae Barbosa. Both elaborate, from their first productions in attention to the contextual articulations, between “place” and “world”, between the local and the global. His works never obeyed boundaries, geographical or epistemic. It is from this expansive character that we will deal here with the global and colonial aspects of the works of these two central references to the fields of education and art/education, also brazilian. Expansion accomplished both by the “incurable fracture of exile” and engendered by the transnational reception of these epistemologies. Freire’s narrative will be revisited here by the up-to-date reception from the black feminism perspective of bell hooks. Ana Mae Barbosa through the reading of Ramon Cabrera Salort about her Abordagem Triangular. Delineating some of the fundamental concepts to these elaborations, will be approached here “another globalization” as understood by Milton Santos and the term de(s)colonial not only by the theoretical dimension of Walter Mignolo, Aníbal Quijano and Catherine Walsh, but also in its dimension poetic by the narratives of Grada Kilomba, Rosana Paulino and Chimamanda Adiche.