{"id":43879,"date":"2018-05-28T16:14:10","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T19:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/?p=43879"},"modified":"2018-06-01T11:11:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T14:11:28","slug":"newly-launched-journal-disrupts-hegemonic-thinking-speaks-of-potency-of-peripheries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=43879","title":{"rendered":"Institute Launches Journal to Disrupt Hegemonic Thinking, Speaks of ‘Potency of Peripheries’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clique aqui para Por<\/strong>tugu\u00eas<\/strong><\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

On Saturday, May 19, the Maria and Jo\u00e3o Aleixo Institute<\/a> (IMJA) launched PERIPHERIES Journal<\/a><\/em>, a biannual publication on the power of the world\u2019s peripheral territories. Available online for free and in four languages (Portuguese, French, Spanish, and English),\u00a0PERIPHERIES<\/em> features the work of activists, researchers, and artists of the world\u2019s peripheries with the goal<\/a> of gathering collective experiences and building “a convergent and global representation of the Potency of Peripheries.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The IMJA, a think tank located in Rio\u2019s Complexo da Mar\u00e9<\/a>\u00a0favela dedicated to the world\u2019s peripheries, presented the publication last Saturday evening at the Mar\u00e9 Art Center<\/a>, at an event featuring performances from the all-female samba group Samba Que Elas Querem<\/a> and the favela poetry collective Poetas Favelados<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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For IMJA founder Jailson de Sousa e Silva<\/a>, the journal serves to \u201cdisseminate new concepts, methodologies, technologies, and varied aesthetic expressions to effectively show that the periphery needs to be seen in a different way<\/a>, rather than from a point of view of precariousness and deficiency.\u201d<\/p>\n

The inaugural edition of PERIPHERIES<\/em> thus features academic articles, photography, poetry, testimonials, book reviews, and interviews from across Brazil as well as Belgium, India, Scotland, and Cape Verde. These works ground themselves in what the IMJA has called \u201cThe Paradigm of Potency,\u201d a concept that<\/a> \u201cstands in opposition to the paradigm of absence,\u201d seeking instead to focus on the peripheries\u2019 capacity to \u201cgenerate practical and legitimate responses, forming counter-hegemonic life forms for society.\u201d<\/p>\n

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According to the journal\u2019s first edition’s feature article, The Paradigm of Potency and the Pedagogy of Coexistence<\/em><\/a>, stigmatization of the world\u2019s peripheries reproduces a cyclical negative pattern. Treating Brazilian favelas as well as global peripheries around the world as isolated, deficient, and destitute results in self-fulfilling prophecies and a process of symbolic denigration. These patterns influence and justify public policy<\/a>, the impacts of which then further shape public opinion. PERIPHERIES<\/em> therefore contests the 2010 census description<\/a> of Brazilian favelas as \u201csubnormal,\u201d both for its focus on normative patterns as well as \u201cfor ignoring characteristics of strength in the territories in favor of certain policies guided by class norms, despite the clear existence of inventive power<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Sousa e Silva, PERIPHERIES<\/em> provides for new ways to contemplate \u201cthe potency that these territories represent not only in Brazil, not only in Latin America, but all over the world, and affirm that [potency] more and more in terms of the interests of their residents.\u201d<\/p>\n

Check out PERIPHERIES’<\/em> first edition here<\/a>.\u00a0PERIPHERIES<\/em> is now accepting submissions<\/a> on the topic of ‘Democracy and the Peripheries’ for its second edition. Volunteers for Portuguese, English, Spanish, or French translations are encouraged to contact\u00a0revista@imja.org.br.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas On Saturday, May 19, the Maria and Jo\u00e3o Aleixo Institute (IMJA) launched PERIPHERIES Journal, a biannual publication on the power of the world\u2019s peripheral territories. Available online for free and in […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":43940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1288,1333,1268,1271,1503,1463,1282,329,1329],"tags":[882,880,280,504,397,2736,878,678,37,438,293,740,453],"writer":[2609],"translator":[],"illustrator":[],"photographer":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-highlight","8":"category-event-reports","9":"category-favelaculture","10":"category-favelaqualities","11":"category-opportunities-to-support-favelas","12":"category-perceptions","13":"category-research-analysis","14":"category-solutions","15":"category-by-international-observers","16":"tag-academia-x-civil-society","17":"tag-census","18":"tag-complexo-da-mare","19":"tag-culture","20":"tag-education","21":"tag-imja","22":"tag-international-comparison","23":"tag-launch-event","24":"tag-north-zone","25":"tag-periphery","26":"tag-poetry","27":"tag-research-findings","28":"tag-stigma","29":"writer-edmund-ruge"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43879"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwriter&post=43879"},{"taxonomy":"translator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftranslator&post=43879"},{"taxonomy":"illustrator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fillustrator&post=43879"},{"taxonomy":"photographer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fphotographer&post=43879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}