Research Lines
Research Lines
◉ Memory and Heritage
Studies on how heritage, understood as material and immaterial symbolic elements, functions as social practice aimed at indexing and representing fragments of social memory. Reflections on heritage in its multiple dimensions and connections: tangible, intangible, natural, genetic, touristic, and digital. Memory networks and intercultural relations. Relationships among collections, narratives, and social trajectories. Tensions involving sociopolitical determinations, social resistance, and the creation of new forms of collecting and heritage-building.
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◉ Memory and Space
Studies on territory, space, and memory and their intersections with social inequality, social identity, gender relations, race relations, religion, culture, and the environment. Political memory in Latin America, political organization, memory politics and narratives, protests, disputes over meaning, and repression. The production and appropriation of material and symbolic territories, territorialization and deterritorialization, boundaries, nomadism, diasporas, and places. Production of the global, the local, and the virtual spheres, and networks of sociability. Visual culture, image, and performance in the construction of memory. Audiovisual recording: space, material supports, and particularities. Interdisciplinary studies of the Public Sphere. The political role of memory and memory policies. Memories of favelas and marginalized urban areas.
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◉ Memory and Language
Studies on the relationships between social memory and language, social representations, discursive and identity performances, and the politics of literature and the arts. The production, circulation, and appropriation of social memory in information practices and cultural diversity related to race, gender, sexuality, and discourse. Sociohistorical struggles over social memory in discursive constructions, literary and artistic expressions, and in discourses of social maintenance and transformation. These serve as a locus for struggles by individuals, institutions, and sociocultural projects. They also include representations of memory in the new social configurations of media, literature, arts, science, and technological innovations.
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◉ Memory, Subjectivity, and Creation
Studies on memory understood as the social production of subjectivity. Transformations of social subjectivity in the face of power dynamics and new technologies. Time, memory, and forgetting. Social determination of memory and processes of singularization. Modes of subjectivation and strategies of resistance to the new globalized order. Memory and identity: a critical approach. The issue of affirming differences. Contemporary social institutions. Studies and research on women and the category of gender; positive affirmation of sexual differences. Structural racism and political organization of the Black population; violence, crime, and public security.
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