BIOGRAPHICAL CARTOGRAPHIES OF RISK: TESTIMONY, BODY-TERRITORY AND CRITICAL MEANINGFUL LEARNING IN CONTEXTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM

Abstract

This article sought to theoretically ground the Biographical Cartography of Risk, a research methodology that treats testimony and body-territory as situated evidence of how environmental racism is inscribed on the body, to be integrated into the Diseases axis of the Pedagogical Atlas of Environmental Racism, an educational product from a master's thesis in progress at PPGEduCIMAT/UFRRJ. The methodology adopted was a theoretical-propositional essay, anchored in testimony as a political and pedagogical category, in body-territory in its Latin American and Afro-Brazilian strands, and in critical meaningful learning, with a narrative review of Brazilian (auto)biographical research and school-based social cartography, submitting the proposal to Hartman's critique of the spectacle of suffering and to Bourdieu's warning about biographical illusion. As a result, an expanded ethical protocol was detailed, anchored in CNS Resolution No. 510/2016, ensuring genuine voluntariness, non-mandatory autobiographical narrative and participatory feedback, together with a five-stage pedagogical sequence and a strategy for analyzing the materials produced. It is concluded that the proposal, still pending empirical validation and ethical approval, offers an original theoretical-methodological contribution by articulating testimony and body-territory under permanent epistemological vigilance.