“O capitão do mato não conta a história como ela foi” – reflexões sobre terapia ocupacional e cultura a partir da trajetória dos Ternos de Congada

Resumo Este ensaio tem como objetivo apresentar o conceito de interseccionalidade, proposto a partir do feminismo negro, como ferramenta de pesquisa e análise, epistêmica e prática, para a terapia ocupacional brasileira e latino-americana. Partindo da ideia de amefricanidade, conceito apresentado por Lélia Gonzalez, como categoria para pensar a vivência de pessoas negras e indígenas localizadas num território colonizado, propomos reflexões para a terapia ocupacional aproximar-se das ocupações negras e indígenas, compreendendo os processos de ruptura e exclusão a partir das desigualdades raciais. Apresentamos reflexões do contexto internacional sobre interseccionalidade e colonialidade para a terapia ocupacional. Sem intenção de encerrar o debate, mas sim de reunir discussões já iniciadas, concluímos que o conceito de interseccionalidade interessa à terapia ocupacional à medida que auxilia a compreensão dos atuais processos de opressão diante do complexo sistema de opressão colonial, cis-heteronormativa, patriarcal, neoliberal, capitalista e capacitista, como compromisso ético e responsabilização técnica e profissional.

Section: Interseccionalidade E Terapia Ocupacionalunclassified

Interseccionalidade: um conceito amefricano e diaspórico para a terapia ocupacional

Ambrosio

Silva

2022

“…The historical resumption of occupational therapy and the repositioning of sociohistorical and racial knowledge produced in the diaspora assists us in supporting the proposition of the concept of intersectionality as an analysis tool, in the form of a critical exercise of reflection. Souza et al (2021) consider that a critical decolonial perspective in occupational therapy should problematize its praxis, aim at democratizing access to human rights, and value the knowledge and practices of historically marginalized individuals and groups, based on knowledge of African and/or Afro-Brazilian origin and of native peoples, and should recognize them as valid knowledge for occupational therapy, offering centrality to subordinate narratives.…”

Section: Intersectionality and Occupational Therapymentioning

confidence: 99%

Intersectionality: an Amefrican diasporic concept for occupational therapy

Ambrosio

Silva

2022

This essay aims to present the concept of intersectionality, proposed from black feminism, as an epistemic and practical research analysis tool for Brazilian and Latin American occupational therapy. Lélia Gonzalez’s concept of amefricanidade provides a basis to think about the everyday life of black and indigenous people living in colonized territories. Thus, this concept enables us to approach black and indigenous occupations and understand the exclusion and rupture processes brought about by racial inequalities. We introduce thoughts about intersectionality and coloniality from international contexts contributing to the propositions of occupational therapy. Not with the intention to close the debate, but rather with that of gathering previously started discussions, we conclude that the concept of intersectionality interests occupational therapy because it helps us understand the current processes of oppression in the face of the complex system of colonial, cis-heteronormative, patriarchal, capitalist, neoliberal and ableist oppression, as an ethical commitment and technical-professional accountability.

“…Over time, Eurocentric power has become widespread in the production of the colonial imaginary that is daily reproduced in social, institutional, and structural relationships and the very cognitive perspective of the world. Recent productions in the area reveal that, when working with populations that live, in their living conditions, the effects of inequality as a social and historical consequence of colonization, occupational therapy must encompass coloniality as an important analytical category in the problematization of its practice and the production of their know-how (Souza et al, 2021).…”

Section: Human Rights Interculturality Identity and Social Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

Na EKO na EBA, goes and comes from immigration: daily, identity and demands of African immigrants’ university students

Bezerra

Alves

2022

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Introduction By embracing cultural diversity, human rights, and social justice – in its practice and knowledge production –, occupational therapy has been interested in discussing the theme of Africa, problematizing different contemporary social dynamics. Objective To understand the trajectory, the construction of identity, and the demands of young African immigrant university students. Method Qualitative approach using semi-structured interviews for data collection and thematic content analysis. Results The first category, “Culture, identity, and daily life: crossing the Black Atlantic”, encompasses the perception of young people about otherness and cultural differences/identifications between Brazil and Africa in their daily lives. The second, “'A country of hunters?': prejudice, discrimination and colonial imaginary” dealt with reports of discrimination in everyday life and the imaginary about Africa in Brazil; The last category, “'The house belongs to the other': institutional support/helplessness and coping strategies”, discusses the conditions of reception and permanence of the African immigrant student at the university. Conclusion The trajectory of African students goes through institutional care, and social and relational needs, which overlap in daily life, culture, and academic performance, emphasizing the experience of racial discrimination inside and outside the university that guides otherness in the construction of subjectivity of young people. The appreciation of African themes demonstrates a tendency of the profession to seek new epistems and decolonial theoretical-methodological constructions that produce other looks for human action in the tension of culture and power relations established by the modern world system.