Challenges and New Possibilities: African Studies in Brazil and the South-South Connection
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| contents | Challenges and New Possibilities: African Studies in Brazil and the South-South Connection Lívio Sansone Multidisciplinarias (Ciencias Sociales) South African studies Geopolitics of knowledge African studies have had a profoundly political history in Brazil that shows that in this country, such as elsewhere, studying Africa is not a natural fact, but depends on political, geostrategic and economic interests as well as quite a degree of intellectual engineering. This article explores the originality of African studies in Brazil when compared with the Global North and addresses a set of challenges and bottlenecks that derive form the institutional fragility of such studies and the present adverse political climate in most of the Brics countries – Brazil, South Africa and India. In the last part the article expands on new paths that should be trailed for the development and consolidation of the South-South connection in African studies as seen from Brazil. 2020 artículo científico 1414-0543 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=748879414006 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=7488 Mediações application/pdf Universidade Estadual de Londrina Mediações (Brasil) Num.1 Vol.25 |
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| spellingShingle | Challenges and New Possibilities: African Studies in Brazil and the South-South Connection Lívio Sansone Multidisciplinarias (Ciencias Sociales) South African studies Geopolitics of knowledge Challenges and New Possibilities: African Studies in Brazil and the South-South Connection Lívio Sansone Multidisciplinarias (Ciencias Sociales) South African studies Geopolitics of knowledge African studies have had a profoundly political history in Brazil that shows that in this country, such as elsewhere, studying Africa is not a natural fact, but depends on political, geostrategic and economic interests as well as quite a degree of intellectual engineering. This article explores the originality of African studies in Brazil when compared with the Global North and addresses a set of challenges and bottlenecks that derive form the institutional fragility of such studies and the present adverse political climate in most of the Brics countries – Brazil, South Africa and India. In the last part the article expands on new paths that should be trailed for the development and consolidation of the South-South connection in African studies as seen from Brazil. 2020 artículo científico 1414-0543 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=748879414006 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=7488 Mediações application/pdf Universidade Estadual de Londrina Mediações (Brasil) Num.1 Vol.25 |
| title | Challenges and New Possibilities: African Studies in Brazil and the South-South Connection |
| topic | Multidisciplinarias (Ciencias Sociales) South African studies Geopolitics of knowledge |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=748879414006 |