Narratives and Everyday Life

A Transversal Analysis of the Practices of the Instituto de Pesquisa e Memória Pretos Novos in the Rewriting of Afrodiasporic Memories

Abstract

In this article we map everyday practices carried out at/by the New Blacks Institute of Memory and Research (IPN) that produce and articulate a set of counter-hegemonic knowledges, narratives, and archives. Our main argument consists of the understanding that the IPN undertakes a reparation and rewriting of Afrodiasporic memory, given that its practices occur within transversal movements of black existence, pluralizing historical approaches and promoting the decolonization of knowledge. In conducting the analysis, we considered, as a theoretical-methodological strategy, theory as a verb and the analysis of transversal lines with emphasis on practices of international politicization. We found three groups of everyday practices mobilized by IPN -- archival review, awareness and counter-geographies -- which emerge transversally in a process of constant recovery and narration of Afro-diasporic memories that disorganize, decentralize and complexify the conceptions of reality, as they make the Institute a theorist, an actor and an international agent.