| Grant number: | 17/06642-5 |
| Support Opportunities: | Research Grants - Young Investigators Grants |
| Start date: | October 01, 2017 |
| End date: | September 30, 2020 |
| Field of knowledge: | Humanities - Anthropology |
| Principal Investigator: | Iracema Hilário Dulley |
| Grantee: | Iracema Hilário Dulley |
| Host Institution: | Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil |
| Associated researchers: | Anna Catarina Morawska Vianna ; BRUNO JÚLIO KAMBUNDO ; Cheryl Mei-ting Schmitz ; Luiz Augusto Pinheiro Leal ; Maria José Alves de Abreu ; Patricia Teixeira Santos ; Renata Silva Machado |
| Associated scholarship(s): | 19/14166-4 - On transformations and social positionality: proper names and war epithets among the MPLA elite,
BP.MS 19/13913-0 - Categories of designation in umbundu in the diaries of Silva Porto, BP.IC 18/03568-1 - Interactions of race and gender based on the diaries of Deolinda Rodrigues, BP.IC + associated scholarships - associated scholarships |
Abstract
This proposal considers processes of subject constitution in Sub-Saharan Africa, i.e. processes in which subjects are socially placed and/or displaced and thus come to occupy social positions that foster or foreclose determined and contextual possibilities of action and experience. We focus on the way in which subjects are constituted through different experiences and practices, such as: legal practices, practices of accusation, literary practices, political and religious performances, practices of interpellation and/or naming. Our analysis considers processes of differentiation in which subjects are constituted through the intersectionality between possible social places. This is done through iterative analysis, i.e. a consideration of pragmatic, discursive, and experiential instantiations that is not predisposed to find a reiteration of social positionality, but interrogates every iteration (event) of a determined practice or experience in search of the similarities and/or differences it bears with the iterations that precede or succeed it. Such an approach is especially indicated for dealing with African contexts, in which social differentiation has occurred very quickly. If the process of subject constitution in Sub-Saharan Africa precedes colonialism and even informs it, colonialism implies the consolidation of ethnic, racial, regional, religious, national, class, status, and gender identifications. Yet, if colonial processes of differentiation bear a relation of continuity with the local forms of differentiation that preceded them and pointed to the available social places in that context, they also operate a large-scale social and political displacement, which in turn informs post-colonial contexts. This proposal intends to examine the iterative process in which differentiations are established at every performative instantiation. (AU)
| Articles published in Agência FAPESP Newsletter about the research grant: |
| More itemsLess items |
| TITULO |
| Articles published in other media outlets ( ): |
| More itemsLess items |
| VEICULO: TITULO (DATA) |
| VEICULO: TITULO (DATA) |