Chamada de trabalhos – segunda edição de 2021

Beyond reparation: cultural production from Afro-diasporic perspectives

The pluriversal Afro-diasporic production in the context of culture — considering its complexity — stands out due to its capacity, regarding the fact that History has been edited by ethnic, cultural and economic hegemonies continuously investing in the disappearance of non-hegemonic expressions, to offer alternative routes for the emergence of its practices, creating material and immaterial values that are fundamental to black life in an extended temporal basis. As already pointed out by Martinique's poet, politician and thinker Aimé Césaire (2010), the response of integral black corporealities, based on a concept-experience embodied by the idea of blackness (related to the Negritude Movement), not being a sort of metaphysics, is, above all and with vigor, a concrete response of historical entities to History. The Afro-diasporic cultural production, in fact, remains responsive to aesthetic, epistemological and ethical flattenings which are based on racism and its socio-constitutive character.

Beyond Reparation: Cultural Production from Afro-Diasporic Perspectives should figure out the state of this production from two main axes of approach:

1. Texts with critical analysis of cultural policies that are commited to the inclusion of racially subjugated groups, observing advances, limits and results of the strategies of struggle that have materialized cultural policies as affirmative actions through public bidding notice and other mechanisms that aim to include these populations;

2. Researches that focus on other models of management and cultural production, making room for the observation of the ways of doing which potential escapes from the indicators established by the field, since they bring the perspective of healing, memory, and the creation of imaginaries as indispensable values. Within this scope, we hope to find case studies, manifestos, reports, interviews and essays that deal with diversified technologies of autonomous forms and network articulations in Afro-diasporic cultural practices.