Challenges and new possibilities: african studies in Brazil and the South-South Connection

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https://doi.org/10.5433/2176-6665.2020v25n1p82

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South-South, Geopolitics of knowledge, African studies

Abstract

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.

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Livio Sansone, Universidade Federal da Bahia - UFBA

PhD in Anthropology from the Universiteit van Amsterdam-UVA. Professor at the Universidade Federal da Bahia - UFBA.

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2020-04-19

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SANSONE, Livio. Challenges and new possibilities: african studies in Brazil and the South-South Connection. Mediações - Revista de Ciências Sociais, Londrina, v. 25, n. 1, p. 82–93, 2020. DOI: 10.5433/2176-6665.2020v25n1p82. Disponível em: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/article/view/38292. Acesso em: 3 nov. 2024.

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