Territorializando o ciberespaço com conhecimentos indígenas, uma abordagem decolonial

Abstract

This research presents the thesis on how the inseparability of indigenous knowledge is revealed through their narratives and characterizes their conception of the world as an interconnected plot. It discusses how the transposition of this knowledge to the digital medium, through the creation of animations, can be a form of territorialization of cyberspace. This transposition of indigenous narratives to the digital medium through animations is addressed in an attempt to rescue and preserve subordinated knowledge during the colonization process, perpetuated today under the aegis of coloniality. During the study, dialogues are established between indigenous narratives and digital forms of communication, to promote the appreciation of indigenous culture in the current context. To have a decolonial research approach, Participant Research, Ecology of Knowledge and the importance of interculturality in the processes involving the work carried out, especially those related to decolonial computing, were used as a methodological approach. In the research process, analyses of indigenous ancestral stories were carried out based on storytelling as well as the digital narratives developed; and from the dynamics of work for the development of digital artifacts, a proposal was conceived for the development of a digital artifact, the Participant Design Collaborative. During the research, it was possible to prove the inseparability of indigenous knowledge, based on the interweaving of knowledge involved in each narrative. It was also identified that the indigenous people believe it is necessary to transfer their knowledge to the digital media, as a form of resistance and that to promote the territorialization of cyberspace and the indigenization of modernity, it is necessary to use their forms of knowledge and approaches such as decolonial computing. , the ecology of knowledge and interculturality can be allies in this process.