Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: DOUGLAS LUIZ DE OLIVEIRA MOURA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : DOUGLAS LUIZ DE OLIVEIRA MOURA
DATE: 14/07/2026
TIME: 15:00
LOCAL: IE
TITLE:

Life Stories of Black Ialorixás in the Baixada Fluminense: Intersectionalities and Terreiro Epistemologies as Forms of (Re)Existence

KEY WORDS:

Ialorixás; Black Female Leadership; *Terreiro* Epistemologies; Intersectionality; Baixada Fluminense.

PAGES: 57
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Psicologia
SUMMARY:

The thesis project, titled *Life Stories of Black Ialorixás in the Baixada Fluminense: Intersectionalities and Terreiro Epistemologies as Forms of (Re)Existence*, aims to investigate the life trajectories of Black female leaders belonging to the Efon and Ketu nations of Candomblé, located in the Baixada Fluminense region. The central objective is to understand how these trajectories articulate knowledge, care practices, and forms of authority grounded in *axé*, transcending mere biographical accounts to assert themselves as acts of political and existential resistance. This is a qualitative study employing a methodology that combines a bibliographic and documentary review of frameworks regarding intersectionality, oral history, and decoloniality with *terreiro* epistemologies and Black territorialities. The choice of oral history is justified by the need to access not only facts but also the meanings the *ialorixás* attribute to their lived experiences. Thus, the interview is understood as a dialogic event in which the subjectivity of memory becomes the key to understanding the technologies of care and power developed within the territory. The project intends to conduct interviews with six to eight *ialorixás* from the region, selected by invitation; these narratives will undergo an analysis that recognizes the body and the *terreiro* as living archives of Afro-diasporic memory. The work shifts the focus from narratives of violence to the centrality of the empowering forces generated within the *terreiros*—understood as territories of knowledge, care, and political resistance—where female leadership establishes forms of power aimed at community sustenance. Anchored in an intersectional perspective, the research embraces an ethical and political commitment to "writing with," granting shared authorship to the voices of the *ialorixás*, who are viewed here as intellectuals of a technology of life capable of transforming pedagogies of exclusion into spaces of ancestral education. Finally, the thesis project aims to reflect on how these women's teachings constitute situated knowledge and lived practices that offer responses to the crises of modernity, reaffirming the *terreiro* as the definitive repository of Black memory and dignity in the Baixada Fluminense.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1331797 - AURELIANO LOPES DA SILVA JUNIOR
Externa ao Programa - 1460741 - ALESSANDRA PIO SILVA - UFRRJExterna à Instituição - JONÊ CARLA BAIÃO - UERJ
Externa à Instituição - MÔNICA DA SILVA FRANCISCO - UFSB