Recently, the positioning of the north cardinal point at the top of maps has regained prominence in the news and social media. Furthermore, the release by IBGE of a world map with Brazil located at the center caused astonishment and reignited the debate about why these projections are mostly used with these configurations and what their practical, political, and social implications are in ordering the imagination of populations. Aiming to spark debate on this subject, we will discuss how map analysis can be carried out from a decolonial perspective involving topics of Cartography, Physics, and Human Sciences, seeking to demystify a supremacy based on Eurocentrism imposed on the countries of the Southern Hemisphere. This approach can be applied to understand better how maps are constructed, interpreted, and how they influence the world's perception. This suggests an analysis that is not limited only to the physical representation of space but also considers critical and historical aspects, as well as issues related to power and coloniality in cartography.
The article presents reflections on the processes of recognizing black people as political entities of anti-racist resistance , struggles in Brazil in relation to the Unified Black Movement (UBM). From the perspective of theories of recognition and Afrocentric knowledge - on categories such as biointeraction, confluences and transfluences - it presents the potential of a geography in which blackness is constituted as resistance to the space structured in whiteness, from everyday struggles to achievements in public policies at different levels of the state. This geography is organized in the encounter between black people and themselves when they join UBM's political spaces for discussion: there is recognition of themselves as a political space for resistance and anti-racist struggles.
This paper tries to reason about the relationship between geography and ancestry in the body-land manifested by the corporeality of indigenous women. The problem involves the intertwining of the consequences of the colonization process on the corporeality of indigenous women, since the ocurrence of patriarchal entrenchment and the usurpation of their territories. It takes a perspective of indigenous women, prioritizing dialogue with indigenous intellectuals, seeking to access the geographical meaning in their knowledge in order to understand how ancestral geography is expressed from the corporealities of indigenous women, in the context of territorial usurpations and violence suffered by them in the exploitation of their own body-land. From this, we intend to think about Geography as a thought that is grounded in and committed to the movement that has emerged from the bodies-land of indigenous women everywhere since time immemorial.
