Rito de curá : fabulando futuros ancestrais para o Bom Parto, em Maceió/AL

Abstract

Colonialism, racism, and patriarchy are structural forces that shape contemporary capitalist society. These systems of oppression directly impact the black population, restricting their access to the right to the city and to life, in addition to deepening socioterritorial inequalities that affect, above all, black women and women from peripheral areas. Adopting an intersectional approach, the study takes as a reference the city of Maceió/AL, currently the scene of an urban catastrophe considered the largest ongoing socio-environmental crime in the world. This disaster, a consequence of the predatory rock salt mining carried out by the global petrochemical company Braskem, resulted in soil subsidence in five neighborhoods of the capital — Bebedouro, Bom Parto, Farol, Mutange, and Pinheiro — and the forced displacement of approximately 60,000 people. In this context, the research is based on counter-colonial perspective to analyze the resistance and survival strategies of the Bom Parto community, one of the black territories affected by the urban disaster. In response to state oppression and institutional violence, the study seeks to reimagine a future for the neighborhood, postsocio-environmental crime, promoting reparations that restore the right to the city to those displaced and those who remain, as well as the possibility of recreating their territories beyond the capitalist logic.