Desigualdades no acesso à tecnologia no Quilombo Quingoma: um estudo sobre infraestrutura e inclusão digital

Abstract

This research aims to analyze inequalities in access to technology in the Quilombo Quingoma, located in the municipality of Lauro de Freitas, Bahia, considering the lack of technological infrastructure and its impacts on the digital inclusion of the commun ity. The study is justified by the need to understand how digital exclusion reflects and deepens the historical inequalities faced by quilombola populations, even in a context of intense technological advances. This is a qualitative, exploratory study, gro unded in the ethnographic method, using non-participant direct observation, field notes, and documentary analysis as methodological procedures, without the collection of personal data. The investigation focused on the observation of public spaces, such as schools, community centers, and shared living areas, in order to identify the presence of technological equipment, connectivity conditions, and initiatives aimed at digital inclusion. The theoretical framework is based on Antônio Bispo dos Santos, known as Nego Bispo, a quilombola intellectual and leader of the Quilombo Saco-Curtume (Piauí), whose contributions are significant for understanding territory as a space of life, memory, ancestry, and collective resistance. His perspective dialogues with the refl ections of Nilma Lino Gomes and Kabengele Munanga by highlighting the marks of structural racism and coloniality in social organization and access to rights among Black populations. In line with Paulo Freire, Nego Bispo understands knowledge as a collective and emancipatory practice, constructed from the subjects’ lived experiences and realities. In articulation with Manuel Castells, his reflections allow the problematization of inequalities in access to information networks and technologies, demonstrating that the precariousness of technological infrastructure in quilombola territories is not limited to a technical issue but results from historical processes of social exclusion, which compromise education, the circulation of knowledge, and the digital inclusion of quilombola communities.