Ancestry, race and gender in Rural Education: the knowledge circles of rural women in the territory of Chapada Diamantina/BA

Abstract

In this text, we invite the reader to learn about the ciranda of knowledge as a theoretical-methodological proposition for working with peasant women in Brazilian rural contexts, in order to strengthen the intersection between race, gender, and ancestry based on black-feminist and decolonial inspirations. To this end, we will present excerpts from a research study developed in the Postgraduate Program - Professional Master's Degree in Rural Education at the Federal University of Reconcave from Bahia, especially in the research line Culture, Race, Gender, and Rural Education in 2023. We propose to highlight a theoretical-methodological and political alignment, in black and decolonial feminist plots, to affirm race, gender, and ancestry as fundamental categories for understanding the modes of education, (infra)politics, and re-existence of rural women in the Brazilian context. With this, we understand that the circularity of the circle of knowledge, built in partnership with black and peasant women from the identity territory of Chapada Diamantina/BA, reverberates an inseparable interplay between theory, methodology and policy for research in Rural Education.