Como pensar (com) o corpo (e outras formas de o habitar)

Abstract

This research begins with the question of how to think (with) the body in a contemporary society in which certain conceptions of corporeality have become naturalised, sustained by colonial structures that persist in the present. The text develops a critical reflection on the ways of understanding and inhabiting the body, in its embodied, affective and relational dimensions, interrogating the possibilities of constructing, within the classroom, alternative ways of seeing, knowing, thinking and making that challenge hegemonic discourses and practices in the pedagogical and artistic fields. The acknowledgement of the position of privilege from which this text is produced is understood as an integral part of a complex and indeterminate exercise, itself inscribed within the very structures of power it seeks to question. The tensions and contradictions that emerge throughout the conception and implementation of the pedagogical proposals are understood as constitutive of a continuous and necessarily unfinished process of (un)learning and (de)construction of whiteness, oriented towards antidiscriminatory and antiracist practices, committed to diversity and attentive to heterogeneity.