(Dis)ordering Epistemological Terra Brasilis: Or Yes, the Indigenous Fisherpeople in Piúma, Brazil, Can Read the World

Abstract

Drawing on epistemologies of the South, the production of local knowledges is discussed in the meeting of the academia with an indigenous fishing community in Piúma, in the southeast of Brazil. With that aim, excerpts of a research project carried out with the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology (IFES) where the fishing community is located are used to illustrate the production of knowledge by those not privileged by modernity. The analysis of narratives of participants involved in the project indicates that the border spaces between IFES and the fishermen favored the production of epistemologies of the South.