Das minhas vidas às minhas terras sagradas: estudos em topogênese - Tomo I. A topogênese entre preces e benzeções -Tomo II

Abstract

This is a blessing-thesis wrapped in blessed and blessingable words and languages: a proposal for post-qualitative writing through the intertwined knowledges of the human being seen in its totality and not in fragmented pieces of being. It walked barefoot in dialogism and alterity (BAKHTIN, 2003) and intertwined in post-humanist knowledges and practices of leaves, waters, branches, embers, human and non-human forces (MURRIS, 2016). The topovivências initially originated in studies of topogenesis in small coffee-growing and peripheral communities in the municipality of Carangola-MG, in the Zona da Mata Mineira, Brazil, through the Research and Study Group on Geography of Childhood – GRUPEGI CNPq, in the macro-field of Geography of Care, coordinated by Prof. Dr. Jader Janer Moreira Lopes and later expanded throughout Colombia through a doctoral internship at the Universidad Surcolombiana – USCo. The practice of blessings is a mestizo Brazilian knowledge, of the popular stratum, decolonial, counter-hegemonic, and instituent practices of the healers in their communities (CERTEAU, 1994) who care for people in their homes through the epistemology of the ancestral sacred, the practice of loving listening, without charging anything, from sunrise until sunset. From a wandering perspective of topoviver, other "Wandering Galleries" emerged, involving intergenerational education and care in various Colombian territories. What is presented here unfolded, in terms of writing, in two volumes, topochronically interconnected in this thesis-blessing: the second volume, which was in progress, gave rise to the first. Thus, "From My Lives to My Sacred Lives – Studies in Topogenesis" is the fruit of the wandering and galleryhopping of an initial project involving the community of Ponte Alta de Minas, the land of my ancestors. From this reunion, through experiences and memories, I recounted my epistemic place and, in parallel, the unfolding of the rural exodus and a set of social inequalities in Brazil. In this intertwined process of wandering and gallery-hopping dialogism lay the genesis of everything: "Topogenesis Between Prayers and Blessings." Would they in fact be two volumes? This thesis-blessing was based on Vygotsky's Historical-Cultural Theory in the powerful perspective of experience, “perezhivanie” (VYGOTSKY, 2006, 2010) and topogenesis, that is, that which emerges in human life and consequently also emerged in research in terms of topovivência or “(inter)spatial experience” (LOPES, 2021, 2024). It is a worthy research: the research was conducted with the rigor of what emerges in life and in dialogue with the subjects from the perspective of spatial lovingness (idem), where the practice of blessing was linked to the Geography of Care and Childhood in an intergenerational, chronotopic manner that recognizes the human being as a text, a scripture stitched together in threads, a needle of blessing, germinated in Pachamama and illuminated by "Abuelo Fuego." The human galleries of topogenes is, of spatial experiences, of the interspatialized being, lead to other spaces and experiences to be explored. It is just like blessing: there is no end.