Ruins, subjective processes of subjection and re-existence in the experience of the project Dialogues in Suape in northeastern Brazil

Abstract

This article reflects on the experience of the Dialogues in Suape project, based on its subprojects: Ação Juvenil and Chá com Damas. The same acted in a soil of ruins, produced in the anthropocene of the Brazilian northeast, in the port and metropolitan region of Recife, from a great national economic development project that had been implemented in the years 2006-2008. This experience sought to dialogue and act in this territory in which the social and economic ruins were evidenced from categories of race, class, gender, sexuality and generation; particularly among youth and prostitute populations. It discusses the places of post-structural and decolonial feminist epistemologies, and their participatory and community practices in the debate about ruins and Anthropocene in Brazil, from the devices of memory and the subjective processes of subjection. And these, in turn, are perceived in the context of the group processes of the Diálogos project, which took the arts as participatory methodological mechanisms.