“In recent decades, Maroonness has been reclaimed by communities of descendants of fugitives from slavery and other Afro-descendant groups, primarily in rural settings, to obtain land rights, for example, in Brazil (Bledsoe, 2017; De La Torre, 2013). Black activists have also identified as Maroons when they have performed ideological escapes from oppression, such as capitalism, patriarchy and European knowledge systems” (Zavala Guillen, p. 1)
Zavala Guillen, Ana Laura. “Feeling/Thinking the Archive: Participatory Mapping Marronage.” Area Accessed June 12, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12869. [online early]
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