The Pedra De Xangô Park: Asserting Afro-Brazilian Architecture and Geography

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Counter-Colonial Architecture, Afrodiasporic Photography, Pedra de Xangô Park, Border Thinking

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present the counter-colonial narrative interwoven in the architecture of the Pedra de Xangô Park from a theoretical perspective. It is a result from fieldwork based on results of the Master Thesis “Pedra de Xangô: a sacred Afro-Brazilian place in the city of Salvador” and on preliminary data and impressions of the ongoing Ph.D. Dissertation research “Spiritual Governance: the Afro-Brazilian sacred present in the construction of the Pedra de Xangô Park memorial”. To discuss the subject, three paradigmatic experiences will be introduced, hopefully contributing to the understanding of the utmost expression of symbology, representation, and ancestral power concentrated in the Afrodiasporic territory. Stuart Hall's text, “Thinking the diaspora”, the testimonies from Sangodele Ibuowo and Oyeniyi Oyedemi, members of Aláàfin Òyó's entourage, and from a candomblé adept will be analyzed. The research method used is a Afrodescendant method, so that the research transgresses the rules compulsorily prescribed by hegemonic knowledge/practices. The norms here are dictated by Xangô, the King, the Orixá of ethics, truth, and justice, to bring into view Afrodiasporic photography, being a product of black, political, and religious geography present in the territory of the cities.

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Author Biographies

Helen Rejane Silva Maciel Diogo

Hélen Rejane Silva Maciel Diogo is a Lawyer and a Master's student at the Graduate Program in Law at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil. She is a researcher at the Center for Law and Decolonization at the Sao Judas Tadeu University (USTJ) and the Transdisciplinary Group in Legal Research for a Sustainable Society at UFSC. She studies Black Constitutionalism, Critical Criminology, Law and Decolonization, Black Epistemologies and Feminisms, Cultural Heritage, and Afro-Brazilian religiosity. helendiogo@hotmail.com
http://lattes.cnpq.br/9122155374736575

Maria Alice Silva

Maria Alice Pereira da Silva is a Lawyer, has a Master's degree and is a doctoral student in Architecture and Urbanism at the Graduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). She studies Cultural Heritage, environmental law and racism, social inclusion, and public policies for traditional communities. mariaalicearq12@gmail.com
http://lattes.cnpq.br/2407501124116330

Francisco Quintanilha Veras neto

Francisco Quintanilha Veras Neto is a Lawyer, holds a Master's and Doctor's Degree in Law, with a Post-Doctorate in the same area. He is a Full Professor at the Center for Legal Sciences at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil, and the Graduate Program in Law at the same institution. He coordinates the Transdisciplinary Group on Legal Research for a Sustainable Society, where he conducts research on ecological and human rights, constitutionalism, democracy and state organization. quintaveras@gmail.com
http://lattes.cnpq.br/0352810627424925

Fabio Macedo Velame

Fabio Macedo Velame is an Architect, with a Master's and Doctor's degree in Architecture and Urbanism. He is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Brazil, a researcher at the Center for Afro-Oriental Studies at the same institution and the EtniCidades Research Group, an ethnic-racial study group in architecture and urbanism. He coordinates research on African cities, African architectures and urbanism, black diasporas and the city, Afrodiasporic architectures and cities, racism and the city, architectures of traditional peoples and communities, architectures of ethnic-racial groups, and Afro-Brazilian architectures. velame.fabio@gmail.com
http://lattes.cnpq.br/0386406510741414

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Published

2022-12-23

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 25 (2022): V!25 Counter-hegemonic Architectures: Identitites

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Ágora