Abstract

This article results from eighteen months of participatory ethnography research in political spaces of the Movement of Solidarity Economy, and from interviews I conducted with participants of this movement between 2015 and 2017 in the city of Rio de Janeiro. In this work, I shed light on a fundamental contradiction between the discourse the movement puts forth and actual political and organizational practices I observed on the ground. Such contradiction refers to the lack of attention to processes of racialization embedded in socioeconomic and spatial hierarchies in the city, as well as the way that such racialized hierarchies get reproduced within the movement dynamics despite the movement’s discourse around racial inclusion and racial diversity. Looking at racialization within the Movement of Solidarity Economy in Rio, and drawing on decolonial studies, post-development theories and Black geographies, this article addresses issues of race and space in political organizing as axis around which racial capitalism is epistemologically and politically articulated. I argue that in order to decenter capitalocentrism and to create alternatives to racial capitalism it is necessary to change lenses to see, name and make visible not only diverse economies, but also Black geographies. I conclude by offering some suggestions of spatial interventions that might facilitate more inclusive and effective political participation of the bases of the movement, the majority of which are black women residents in favelas and peripheral areas.

Highlights

  • Abril de 2020, p. 389-417 socioeconomic and spatial hierarchies in the city, as well as the way that such racialized hierarchies get reproduced within the movement dynamics despite the movement’s discourse around racial inclusion and racial diversity

  • I conclude by offering some suggestions of spatial interventions that might facilitate more inclusive and effective political participation of the bases of the movement, the majority of which are black women residents in favelas and peripheral areas

  • Je conclus en proposant suggestions d'intervention spatiale susceptibles de favoriser une participation politique plus intégrée et efficace des entrepreneurs du mouvement d'économie solidaire, un segment dans lequel il y la plus grande concentration de travailleurs noirs del Mouvement d’économie solidaire et qui habite de bidonvilles et de périphéries

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DIVERSIDADE ECONÔMICA E GEOGRAFIA NEGRA

Resumo: Este artigo resulta de etnografia participativa em espaços políticos do Movimento de Economia Solidária e entrevistas com integrantes deste movimento realizadas durante dezoito meses, entre 2015 e 2017 na cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Tal contradição refere-se à falta de atenção aos processos de racialização das hierarquias socioeconômicas e territoriais na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, e à maneira como estas hierarquias se replicam dentro do próprio movimento, apesar das menções à diversidade étnico-racial no plano do discurso. Em diálogo com autores no campo de estudos descoloniais, pós-desenvolvimento e geografias negras, este artigo levanta questões teóricas sobre raça e espaços de fazer político como eixos em torno dos quais o capitalismo racial é epistemologicamente e politicamente articulado, lançando luz sobre processos de racialização em práticas organizacionais no Movimento de Economia Solidária. Palavras-chave: Economia solidária; Relações raciais; Geografias negras; Políticas públicas; Autonomia

DIVERSIDAD ECONÔMICA Y GEOGRAFIA NEGRA
DIVERSITÉ ÉCONOMIQUE ET GÉOGRAPHIE NOIRE
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